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New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, Inc, 1935. First edition. Near Fine. Octavo. Original blue cloth over silver boards with blue airplane stamped on the front board, silver top-stain. Number 133 of 310 signed limited copies, with the signed limitation page in the rear. A Near Fine copy of the book with the spine faded, minor rubbing to silver boards and a previous owner's stamp on the half-title, otherwise appearing clean and unread. Lacking the publisher's cardboard slipcase. "While most critics consider Pylon to be Faulkner's most flawed novel ("unnecessary horror and violence," "unintelligible descriptive passages," an "inconceivable climax"), Faulkner himself is reported to consider it the best of his works to be adapted to screen" (University of Michigan). It was an admitted departure for the author, as it was one of his few works to be set outside the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, instead unfolding in a thinly disguised New Orleans (here called New Valois). There, a nameless… Read More