One Matchless Time: A Life of William Faulkner $35.00
New York: Harper Collins (2004)
Fine in decorated wrappers
Faulkner and Welty and the Southern Literary Tradition $85.00
Jackson, Mississippi: University of Mississippi Press (2008)
Signed by Noel Polk. Fine in dust jacket.
Becoming Faulkner: The Art and Life of William Faulkner $29.95
New York, NY: Oxford Press (2010)
Fine in dust jacket.
William Faulkner was the greatest American novelist of the 20th century, yet he lived a life marked by a pervasive sense of failure. In this imaginative biography, Philip M. Weinstein targets this disjunction as one among a number of paradoxes that defined Faulkner’s experience of the world.
National Geographic “Faulkner’s Mississippi” $250.00
“Faulkner’s Mississippi” by Willie Morris.
National Geographic (March 1989) Vol. 175, No. 3
First appearance. Signed by Morris.
Photographs by William Albert Allard.
Very good magazine that shows paper wear at top of spine. Very rare signed copy.
Doctor Martino and Other Stories $2,000.00
New York: Smith Haas (1934)
Blue cloth with faded spine. Dust jacket has closed tear on a sunned spine. Good.
William Faulkner: Self-Presentation and Performance $40.00
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press (2000)
Fine in dust jacket.
From the beginning, William Faulkner’s art was consciously self-presenting. In writing of all kinds he created and performed a complex set of roles based in his life as he both lived and imagined it. In his fiction, he counterpoised those personae against one another to create a written world of controlled chaos, made in his own protean image and reflective of his own multiple sense of self. In this text, Watson draws on the entire Faulkner canon, including letters and photographs, to decipher the ways in which Faulkner put himself forward through written performances and displays based in, and expressive of, his biography.
Doctor Martino and Other Stories $2,000.00
New York: Smith Haas
Browned end papers. Faded spine. Dust jacket has sunned spine with two inch piece missing from front right corner.
Faulkner and Women $50.00
Jackson, MS: University of Mississippi Press (1986)
Fine in dust jacket
Bitterweeds: Life with William Faulkner at Rowan Oak $200.00
Irving, Texas: Society for the Study of Traditional Culture (1977)
One of 300 copies, “out of series”, signed by Malcolm Franklin. Very good in dust jacket.
Faulkner and the Discourses of Culture $46.95
Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press (2005)
Fine in dust jacket.
Throughout his career, William Faulkner produced a literary discourse remarkably contiguous with other discourses of American culture, but seldom has his work been explored as a participant in the shifts and ruptures that characterize modern discursive systems. Charles Hannon argues in Faulkner and the Discourses of Culture that the language of Faulkner’s fiction is replete with the voiced conflicts that shaped America and the South from the 1920s to 1950. Specifically, Hannon takes five contemporary debates — in historiography, law, labor, ethnography, and film — and relates them both to canonical and less-discussed texts of Faulkner.
A Fable $2,250.00
New York: Random House (1954)
One of 1000 copies by the author. Decorated blue boards. Owner’s bookplate. Good in fragile wrapper in slipcase.
William Faulkner: American Writer $50.00
New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson (1989)
Very good in dusy jacket
A Sorority Pledge $250.00
Northpoint, Alabama: Seajay Press (1983)
One of 100 numbered copies. Very good in stapled wrappers.
Edited and with an Afterword by Jane Isbell Haynes
The Mansion $3,500.00
New York: Random House (1959)
One of 500 numbered copies signed by the author. Fine in black cloth.
Collected Stories $650.00
New York: Random House (1950)
Light browning on front end papers. Very good in price clipped dust jacket.
The Mansion $2,500.00
New York: Random House (1959)
One of 500 numbered copies signed by the author. Bookplate on front end paper. Otherwise, very good in black cloth.
Faulkner: Volume 1 Biobibliography $30.00
Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi (1982)
Very good in dust jacket.
On William Faulkner $200.00
Jackson, MS: University of Mississippi Press (2003)
One of 150 numbered copies. Fine in slipcase.
Eudora Welty (1909-2001) and William Faulkner (1897-1962) were almost unquestionably Mississippi’s leading literary lions during the twentieth century. Their influence on American literature is immeasurable.
On William Faulkner brings together Welty’s reviews, essays, lectures, and musings on Faulkner, including such gems as her reviews of Intruder in the Dust and The Selected Letters of William Faulkner, as well as her comments during her presentation of the Gold Medal to Faulkner during the National Institute of Arts and Letters awards ceremony in 1962. The collection also features an excerpt from a letter she wrote to the novelist Jean Stafford, telling of meeting Faulkner and of going sailing with him. Included too are Welty’s impassioned defense of Faulkner’s work-published as a letter to the New Yorker-and the obituary of the Nobel laureate that she wrote for the Associated Press.
In addition, the book includes a cryptic postcard Faulkner wrote to Welty from Hollywood, plus six photographs, and a caricature of Faulkner drawn by Welty during the 1930s.
Commenting on the place of both writers in contemporary literature, an essay by the noted literary scholar Noel Polk puts the collection in context and offers assessment and appreciation of their achievements in American literature.
On William Faulkner is a valuable resource for exploring Faulkner’s work and sensing Welty’s critical voice. Her sharp critical eye and graceful prose make her an astute commentator on his legacy.
Eudora Welty is the author of many novels and story collections, including The Optimist’s Daughter (Pulitzer Prize), Losing Battles, The Ponder Heart, The Robber Bridegroom, A Curtain of Green and Other Stories, as well as three collections of her photographic work (all from the University Press of Mississippi)-Photographs, Country Churchyards, and One Time, One Place: Mississippi in the Depression.
William Faulkner is the author of The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, Sanctuary, As I Lay Dying, among others. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949.
Noel Polk, a professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi, is the author of many critical studies on Welty and Faulkner and is the co-editor of the Library of America edition of Faulkner’s works.