Jun 20, 2013 - Sale 2319

Sale 2319 - Lot 107

Price Realized: $ 18,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 15,000 - $ 25,000
FAULKNER, WILLIAM. Soldiers' Pay. 8vo, original blue cloth, lettered in yellow, slightest wear at extremities, top edges stained yellow; dust jacket, spine panel moderately faded, 1 inch paper restoration at bottom of front panel, few other smaller repairs, rear flap with short clean splits along fold extremities, some edge creasing, but still a very good example with $2.50 price intact of this notoriously scarce and fragile jacket; internally clean and unmarked; preserved in custom 1/4 morocco slip case with chemise. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926

Additional Details

first edition of faulkner's first novel. One of approximately 2500 copies, this was published due in part to his association with Sherwood Anderson and the older writer's intervention with the publisher, Boni & Liveright. Petersen A2a.