Pylon

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Sale 356: Fine Modern Literature, with the Working Manuscript of John Steinbeck's Sweet Thursday (#356) 05/24/2007 1:00 PM PDT Closed
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Lot #38Pylon

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$1,125

Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500

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Sale 356: Fine Modern Literature, with the Working Manuscript of John Steinbeck's Sweet Thursday (#356) 05/24/2007 1:00 PM PDT Closed
Starts Ending 05/24/2007 1:00 PM PDT

Description

Title:

Pylon

Author:

Faulkner, William

Place Published:

New York

Publisher:

Harrison Smith & Robert Haas

Date Published:

1935

Description:

With folding frontispiece from the first draft manuscript (not included for the trade edition). Half blue cloth and metallic paper over boards with plane vignette on front cover in blue, spine lettered in silver, top edge silver. No. 151 of 310 copies, 10 of which were not for sale. First Edition, limited issue.

Signed by Faulkner in the colophon / limitation. Faulkner's aviation novel and the basis for the 1958 film The Tarnished Angels starring Robert Stack and Rock Hudson. Rare slipcase not present. Petersen A16c.

Condition:

Spine faded, light rubbing, a few nicks (chiefly at edges); faint offsetting to endpapers; else very good.

Item#:

180623

Headline:

Faulkner, William Pylon signed limited first ed.
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