Go Down, Moses and Other Stories.

New York: Random House,, 1942. A highly attractive copy in the first issue dust jacket First trade edition, first printing, in the first issue dust jacket, priced $2.00 and with eight titles on the rear panel. The present work and The Town (1957) "show, in their rich variety, the constant, restless urge of their author to experiment with new forms and methods" (Meriwether, p. 6). Faulkner saw Go Down, Moses not as a collection of stories but rather as a unified novel; as such, the title of subsequent printings omitted the phrase "and Other Stories". This copy, in tile red cloth, is one of numerous binding variants "bound in whatever cloth the publisher found available during a period of wartime shortages" (Petersen, Each in its Ordered Place). Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in green. With dust jacket. Front free endpaper with bookseller's ticket of City Book Agency, Johannesburg. A near-fine copy, fresh and clean, in the bright dust jacket, a couple of nicks and short closed tears, a little rubbing, unclipped. Massey 449; Petersen, Each in its Ordered Place, A21d; Petersen, The Carl Petersen Collection, A23.2c. James B. Meriwether, The Literary Career of William Faulkner: A Bibliographical Study, 1961.