May 18, 2016 - Sale 2416

Sale 2416 - Lot 162

Price Realized: $ 4,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
FAULKNER, WILLIAM. Mosquitoes. 8vo, publisher's gilt-lettered blue cloth, light rubbing to spine tips; unclipped dust jacket, paper restorations including portion of spine panel head into upper front panel, some uneven toning; light foxing to prelims else 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.