Petersen A23.2b.īook fine a few marginal repairs to verso of price-clipped dust jacket. Stated "First Printing." Both the trade and rare signed limited copies of this book are from the same printing.
Which is equivalent to saying the best we have." First issue, in black cloth with the top edge stained red. A contemporary review in the Boston Globe said of all the stories that they "represent William Faulkner at his best. One of the most acclaimed stories, "The Bear," had appeared, in abbreviated form, in the Saturday Evening Post the same year (Brodsky 229) the coming-of-age tale remains one of Faulkner's most anthologized.
"So committed was Faulkner to the expansive possibilities of the short story form that in Go Down, Moses he created what he always insisted was a novel composed entirely of interrelated stories previously published separately" (Gelfant, 252). Go Down, Moses "was a landmark volume for Faulkner… Here we have the Southern dilemma, and Faulkner has transformed it into the American" (Karl, 665-67). Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket.įirst trade edition, first issue, of Faulkner's masterpiece of interrelated short stories, with the first book appearance of "The Bear." "THE BEST WE HAVE": FAULKNER'S GO DOWN, MOSES, INCLUDING THE FIRST BOOK APPEARANCE OF "THE BEAR"įAULKNER, William.
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