Mosquitoes Second Edition First Printing

William Faulkner

Published by Liveright, New York, 1933

About this Item

Second Edition of Faulkner's second novel, set in New Orleans and following a group of artists on a four-day yacht excursion on Lake Pontchartrain. Publisher's French blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in orange, illustrated "card players" dust jacket priced $3.00. New Edition 349 Pages. Same Plates from the Original 1927 First Edition.

While in Paris in late 1925, Faulkner started a novel titled "Mosquito," but left it unfinished. After his first novel, Soldiers Pay, was published in February, 1926, he started work again on Mosquitoes (now retitled), drawing on material from two unpublished short stories ("Adolescence" and "Don Giovanni") and several of his poems and early sketches. "Unique among Faulkner s works, it directly addresses artistic matters in arguments and debates put into the mouths of several characters, primarily Dawson Fairchild and Julius Kauffman. In these debates Faulkner, as a young writer, seems to have been working out an aesthetic that would be important as a foundation for the major works that lay ahead.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1773980804794

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mosquitoes Second Edition First Printing
• Publisher: Liveright, New York
• Publication Date: 1933
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine