Faulkner William 1897 1962 Noel Polk (2 results)

First edition thus (some material previously published in The Mississippi Quarterly #26, Summer 1973 issue). x, 166 pages. Hardcover: H 23.75cm x L 15.75cm. Brown dust jacket, 7cm closed tear descending from front panel's top left; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Beige cloth, spine decorated with vibrant gilt stamped title block and black lettering. Light brown top edge and endpapers. Interior pages are clean. Binding is firm. A near fine copy in a good+ dust jacket. Features a "collection ⦠[of] texts, criticism, and biographical studies of a number of the unpublished writings of William Faulkner" with the following: Editor's Foreword; "William Faulkner's 'Marionettes'" by Noel Polk; "The Elmer Papers: Faulkner's Comic Portraits of the Artist" by Thomas L. McHaney; "A Census of Manuscripts and Typescripts of William Faulkner's Poetry" by Keen Butterworth; "Faulkner on the Literature of the First World War" by Michael Millgate; "Faulkner and the World War II Monument in Oxford" by James B. Meriwether; "New Material for Faulkner's 'Intruder in the Dust'" by Patrick Samway, S.J.; "Faulkner's Typescripts of 'The Town'" by Eileen Gregory; "William Faulkner's Own Collection of His Books in 1959" by James B. Meriwether; "'Hong Li' and 'Royal Street:' The New Orleans Sketches in Manuscript" by Noel Polk; plus five essays by William Faulkner - "And Now What's to Do;" "Nympholepsy;" "An Introduction to 'The Sound and the Fury;'" "A Note on 'A Fable;'" and "Faulkner's Speech of Acceptance for the Andres Bello Award, Caracas, 1961." {LitCrit Shelf #3} ISBN 0878050515.

First edition thus (with publisher's requisite statement upon copyright page) INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY NOEL POLK. i-xxxii, [2], 1-106 pages. Hardcover: H 26.25cm x L 17.5cm. Yellow dust jacket lightly soiled; color fading to spine; creased tear at front panel's top left; light staining at rear panel's top fore-edge corner with shallow overlap into flap corner; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Red cloth with some light soiling; bright gilt stamped lettering to spine and front board; spine ends bumped. Three-line ink inscription on the half-title page: For Peyton Williams, | w/ affection + w/ much gratitude - | Noel." Interior pages are clean. Binding is firm. A very good+ copy in a very good- dust jacket. A renowned scholar of Southern Literature and the preeminent Faulkner authority, Noel Polk (1943-2012) was Professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi from 1977 to 2004 where he also served as editor of the university's THE SOUTHERN QUARTERLY. Polk joined Mississippi State University in the fall of 2004 and assumed the editorship of MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY and was soon appointed Professor Emeritus. The book was acquired from the estate of Mississippi State University English professor Peyton W. Williams, Jr., a renowned southern literature scholar and a Faulkner specialist as well and who started teaching at the school in 1950 and served as editor of MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY from 1970 until his death in 1987. During his brief tenure as a student at the University of Mississippi William Faulkner authored his play THE MARIONETTES in 1920 for a student drama club of the same name. Although the play was never staged, Faulkner personally hand-lettered and bound six copies (some sources cite eight) all of which shared b/w illustrations in an Art Nouveau style reminiscent of Aubrey Beardsley. Most of the original copies were sold to fellow Ole Miss students allegedly to raise funds for Faulkner's whiskey consumption. Four extant copies are known: two owned by the University of Texas, one by the University of Virginia, and one in a private collection in Columbus, Mississippi. ISBN 0813907349.