8vo. Title printed in brown and black. Original marbled paper boards, printed cover label (spine lightly sunned with a touch of rubbing at spine ends). Provenance: ownership signature partly erased from front free endpaper.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 77 of 400 copies, SIGNED BY FAULKNER. Idyll in the Desert was Faulkner's first Random House book and was the only publication of this story until it was included in Uncollected Stories in 1979. Petersen A10.1.