May 16, 2017 - Sale 2448

Sale 2448 - Lot 96

Price Realized: $ 21,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 15,000 - $ 20,000
FAULKNER, WILLIAM. Soldiers' Pay. 8vo, publisher's blue cloth, lettered in yellow, slight lean, light rubbing to spine foot; unclipped dust jacket, spine panel moderately faded, closed tears along flap folds, old cellotape repairs along top corners on verso, moderate rubbing, shallow chips to spine panel extremities and corners not affecting lettering, still a very good example with $2.50 price intact of this notoriously scarce and fragile jacket; discreet bookseller's label to rear pastedown, else internally clean and unmarked. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926

Additional Details

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