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The Hamlet
by Faulkner, William
- Used
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
NY: Random House, 1940. First edition. Faulkner's first installment in his Snopes trilogy charts the fortunes (or otherwise) of the Snopes family in Mississippi. The novel served as the basis for the 1958 film, The Long Hot Summer with Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, and Orson Welles. Pictorial title page tipped-in facing p. (iv). Publisher's black cloth shows mild shelfwear, a trace of faint dampstaining to lower margin of several interior pages. Overall very good in very good first issue dust wrapper that shows some color restoration to extremities. Bookplate. (Petersen A20a).
Synopsis
William Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, on September 25, 1897. He published his first book, The Marble Faun (a collection of poems), in 1924, and his first novel, Soldier's Pay, in 1926. In 1949, having written such works as Absalom, Absalom!, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, and The Sound and the Fury, Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He also received the Pulitzer Prize for two other novels, A Fable (1954) and The Reivers (1962). From 1957 to 1958 he was Writer-in-Residence at the University of Virginia. He died on July 6, 1962, in Byhalia, Mississippi.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bromer Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 33387
- Title
- The Hamlet
- Author
- Faulkner, William
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1940
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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About the Seller
Bromer Booksellers
Biblio member since 2008
Boston, Massachusetts
About Bromer Booksellers
Bromer Booksellers specializes in rare and beautiful books. Owned and operated by Anne Bromer, who has been in the business of fine books for over fifty years, our shop carries a range of important private press books, designer bookbindings, illustrated books, children's books, and miniature books.
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
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