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Lot 25
Sale 6426 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
Nov 13, 2025
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
Estimate
$400 -
600
Lot Description
FAULKNER, William (1897-1962). These 13. New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1931.
8vo. Original grey cloth-backed blue cloth, spine lettered in red, top edge stained black, endpapers with printed blue design on grey paper (slight lean to spine, light sunning to extremities); dust jacket (single horizontal crease to both upper and lower panels, light edgewear and toning).
FIRST TRADE EDITION, FIRST PRINTING with the index reference (misprint on contents leaf) for "Hair" appearing on p.280, rather than p.208. "It is likely that the limited issue precedes the trade issue." These 13, a collection of stories, was dedicated to Faulkner's first daughter Alabama who died nine days after her birth on 11 January 1931. It contains the first appearance of his story "A Rose for Emily." Petersen A9.2a.
This lot is located in Chicago.
