Jun 19, 2014 - Sale 2355

Sale 2355 - Lot 110

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
FAULKNER, WILLIAM. Mosquitoes. 8vo, gilt-lettered blue cloth, light rubbing to spine tips; unclipped dust jacket, few small tape repairs on verso folds, minor rubbing to spine tips and folds, 3 1/2 inch V-shaped tear across front panel touching two letters, decorative endpapers and contents clean. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927
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first edition in first issue "mosquito" design dust jacket. One of 3047 copies issued. Faulkner's second novel, "most of it circling around two inexhaustible topics, literature and sex" (Fargnoli and Golay, p. 163); Petersen A4b.