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Go Down, Moses; And Other Stories
by Faulkner, William
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- very good
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1942. Limited Edition. Cloth. Very good. Signed limited edition of Go Down, Moses and Other Stories by William Faulkner.. Octavo, [10], 383pp. Three-quarter orange buckram, paper covered boards, top edge gilt, title in gilt on spine. Stated "First Printing" on copyright page. Solid text block, light wear to fore edge of text block. Archival repairs to spine and board edges, tears on pages 285-288 repaired with Japanese tissue. (Petersen A21c) From a limited edition of 100 copies signed by William Faulkner, this being number 55. The smallest limitation of any Faulkner signed works. A scarce example. William Faulkner (1897-1962) was an award-winning author with stories focusing on the American South. His work won the Nobel Prize in Literature and two Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction. A few specific pieces (most notably The Sound and the Fury) are considered to be in the top 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. The title Go Down, Moses and Other Stories was shortened to Go Down Moses in later editions.
Synopsis
Go Down, Moses is a collection of Faulkner's stories that once strung together, tell the composite history of the McCaslin family, specifically of the white and black descendants of Lucius Quintus Carothers McCaslin and the residents of the plantation he founded.
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- The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12382
- Title
- Go Down, Moses; And Other Stories
- Author
- Faulkner, William
- Illustrator
- Signed limited edition of Go Down, Moses and Other Stories by William Faulkner.
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1942
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- Edges
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
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