Pylon

by Faulkner, William

William Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, on September 25, 1897. His family was rooted in local history: his great-grandfather, a Confederate colonel and state politician, was assassinated by a former partner in 1889, and his grandfather was a wealth lawyer who owned a railroad. When Faulkner was five his parents moved to Oxford, Mississippi, where he received a desultory education in local schools, dropping out of high school in 1915. Rejected for pilot training in the U.S. Army, he passed himself off as British and joined the Canadian Royal Air Force in 1918, but the war ended before he saw any service. After the war, he took some classes at the University of Mississippi and worked for a time at the university post office. Mostly, however, he educated himself by reading promiscuously.Faulkner had begun writing poems when he was a schoolboy, and in 1924 he published a poetry collection, The Marble Faun, at his own expense. His literary aspirations were fueled by his close friendship with Sherwood Anderson, whom he met during a stay in New Orleans. Faulkner's first novel, Soldier’s Pay, was published in 1926, followed a year later by Mosquitoes, a literary satire. His next book, Flags in the Dust, was heavily cut and rearranged at the publisher’s insistence and appeared finally as Sartoris in 1929. In the meantime he had completed The Sound and the Fury, and when it appeared at the end of 1929 he had finished Sanctuary and was ready to begin writing As I Lay Dying. That same year he married Estelle Oldham, whom he had courted a decade earlier.Although Faulkner gained literary acclaim from these and subsequent novels—Light in August (1932), Pylon (1935), Absalom, Absalom! (1936), The Unvanquished (1938), The Wild Palms (1939), The Hamlet (1940), and Go Down, Moses (1942)—and continued to publish stories regularly in magazines, he was unable to support himself solely by writing fiction. he worked as a screenwriter for MGM, Twentieth Century-Fox, and Warner Brothers, forming a close relationship with director Howard Hawks, with whom he worked on To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep, and Land of the Pharaohs, among other films. In 1944 all but one of Faulkner's novels were out of print, and his personal life was at low ebb due in part to his chronic heavy drinking. During the war he had been discovered by Sartre and Camus and others in the French literary world. In the postwar period his reputation rebounded, as Malcolm Cowley's anthology The Portable Faulkner brought him fresh attention in America, and the immense esteem in which he was held in Europe consolidated his worldwide stature.Faulkner wrote seventeen books set in the mythical Yoknapatawpha County, home of the Compson family in The Sound and the Fury. “No land in all fiction lives more vividly in its physical presence than this county of Faulkner’s imagination,” Robert Penn Warren wrote in an essay on Cowley’s anthology. “The descendants of the old families, the descendants of bushwhackers and carpetbaggers, the swamp rats, the Negro cooks and farm hands, the bootleggers and gangsters, tenant farmers, college boys, county-seat lawyers, country storekeepers, peddlers—all are here in their fullness of life and their complicated interrelations.” In 1950, Faulkner traveled to Sweden to accept the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature. In later books—Intruder in the Dust (1948), Requiem for a Nun (1951), A Fable (1954), The Town (1957), The Mansion (1959), and The Reivers (1962)—he continued to explore what he had called “the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself,” but did so in the context of Yoknapatawpha’s increasing connection with the modern world. He died of a heart attack on July 6, 1962.

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WILLIAM FAULKNER! Stated Second Issue, 2nd Printing Thus. NOBEL PRIZE WINNER. Faulkner, William: PYLON. Stated 2nd Issue, 2nd Printing 1935, Smith & Haas, NY. RARE IN THE ORIGINAL BLUE DUST JACKET. RARE SASCHA MAURER COVER ART. ART DECO. Used. Very Good-/ Very Good- Blue cloth, \ The second printing (stated). In second issue dust jacket (blank rear panel and… Read more about this item
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New York: Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine-/Fine-. First Printing (February, 1935, on copyright page), in First Issue dust jacket (with correct titles listed on rear panel), filmed in 1957 as The Tarnished Angels. 8vo: 315,[1]pp, with title-page vignette. Publisher's cobalt-blue V-cloth, spine and upper cover stamped in gold within horizontal black band, top… Read more about this item
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good/Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. First Printing Stated. A Clean and Square VG/NF Copy. Condition: Toning to endpapers, and slight fading to spine. DJ is incomplete, The DJ is missing the front panel and about half of the DJ's spine, but the complete front flap with $2.50 price has been preserved and stored inside… Read more about this item
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New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1935. Original Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Second Printing, March 1935 stated, Book: very good light tan cloth boards with black titles on spine, square and tight with sharp corners, very small previous owners initials on front end paper, spine a touch of sunning, a very solid copy of this Faulkner classic,… Read more about this item
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New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1935 First edition, first printing. Limited to 310 individually numbered copies signed by Faulkner. Original publisher's three-quarter blue cloth-backed silver foil-covered boards, with illustration of a plane to the front cover, spine lettered in silver, silver top edge; original publisher's paper-covered slipcase with title label to front board and spine. About fine with… Read more about this item
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New York: Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, 1935. Hardcover. Fair/Near Fine. First edition. Owner initials on the front fly, staining to the rear board, a fair only copy in a near fine second issue dustwrapper with a little rubbing. Faulkner's tale of barnstorm aviation, a pursuit which took his brother Dean's life a few months after the book… Read more about this item
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New York: Smith & Haas, 1935. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Gold lettering on the boards flaked else very good plus in very good, first issue dustwrapper with some modest edgewear, very short tears, and a little rubbing to the corners of the spine. Faulkner's tale of barnstorming aviation, a pursuit which took his brother Dean's life… Read more about this item
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New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, Inc, 1935. Limited Edition. Cloth. Very good. Signed limited edition of Pylon by William Faulkner, in the original slipcase.. Octavo, 315pp, [3]. Blue cloth spine, title stamped in silver on spine. Bright silver foil boards. Top edge silver. Solid text block, internally fine. Fold-out frontispiece of facsimile manuscript. Shelf wear, sunning… Read more about this item
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New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1935. Slight wear at extremities with a few small losses, remnants of an adhesion on the rear wrapper, slightly soiled. 8vo. 315 pages. Original pictorial wrappers made from the dust jacket. Provenance: Alvin Grauer (signature on front free endpaper). First edition, the scarce publisher's advance in wrappers of the trade issue.… Read more about this item
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London: Chatto & Windus, 1935. First UK Edition. First Impression. Octavo (19cm); thin red boards, with titles stamped in white on spine; dustjacket; 318pp. Upper corners very slightly splayed, with two tiny stains to text edges; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped, lightly edgeworn, with an old, faint stain at the base of the spine (most evident on verso) and… Read more about this item
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by Faulkner, William

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New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, Inc, 1935. First edition. 315 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Black cloth; very good with some loss to gilt lettering. In very good dust jacket with faded spine and edgewear. First edition. 315 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Faulkner's novel about an airplane contest in New Orleans during Mardis Gras.
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by Faulkner, William

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1967
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New York: The Modern Library (1967), 1967. First edition thus. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [7], 8-315, [3], [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Green cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Grey endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $2.45 on front flap of dust jacket. First printing of the first Modern Library edition as per Toledano. Two tiny… Read more about this item
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New York: Harrison Smith and Robert, 1935. First printing. Hardcover. Good. 315 pp. Small octavo. [19 cm]. Blue paper over boards, with gilt title stamped on black cloth strip through the middle of front board, with some of the gilt worn away. Gilt title stamped on spine but has worn away. The edges of the covers are toned,… Read more about this item
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Oxford, Mississippi: N/P, c. 1934. A novel at once sympathetic and explosive, Faulkner's Pylon is inhabited by characters still strange to the world today - a reckless and indomitable group of barnstormers performing in an unconventional flying circus. Set in a fictionalized version of New Orleans, the novel became the basis for the sensational 1957 film 'The Tarnished Angels'… Read more about this item
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Pylon: A Novel (The Modern Library, No. 380)

Pylon: A Novel (The Modern Library, No. 380)

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New York: The Modern Library, 1967. First Thus. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 7x4x1. 1967 first thus, Toledano 380.1, binding/jacket style 12n with blank verso, $2.45 jacket price, brown Fujita endpapers. Near fine in very good jacket. Tape remnant on jacket spine base. 315 pp. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950. One of the few of… Read more about this item
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by FAULKNER William

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London: Chatto & Windus, 1935 DW has peice missing from head of spine losing all of the title but authors name is present, browned backstrip, minor chipping or splitting to spine ends and corners, front and rear panels and fold in flaps complete and intact, not price clipped, a little offset foxing to feps, spine titling to book cloth… Read more about this item
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New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Hass, Inc, 1935. First edition of Faulkner's explosive novel about a group of Southern barnstormers. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing and wear. Housed in a custom half morocco chemise and clamshell box. A novel at once sympathetic and explosive, Faulkner's Pylon is inhabited by… Read more about this item
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New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1935. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Spine lettering rubbed away, spine sunned, a good only copy without dustwrapper. Faulkner's tale of barnstorm aviation, a pursuit which took his brother Dean's life a few months after the book was published. The novel was the basis for the 1958 Douglas Sirk film *The Tarnished… Read more about this item
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by William Faulkner

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Random House, 1962. 1962 reprint of this classic. Near Fine book in a Very Good dust jacket. Tanning to the spine.
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