Pylon by Faulkner, Signed (21 results)

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition thus. Mass market paperback. Introduction by Reynolds Price. Slight edgewear, near fine. Briefly Inscribed by Price on the title page. Faulkner's tale of barnstorm aviation, a pursuit which took his brother Dean's life a few months after the book was published. Basis for the 1958 Douglas Sirk film *The Tarnished Angels* featuring Robert Stack, Rock Hudson and Dorothy Malone.

hardcover. Condition: near fine. Limited. 8vo, pictorial silver foil boards with light blue cloth spine & corners; spine lightly faded. New York: Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, 1935. Limited First Edition. Number 6 of a special edition of 300 copies, numbered & signed by Faulkner. Near fine in the publishers plain board box with printed labels. The box is fragile, but intact & unrestored. Signed.

315 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Usual darkening and partial flaking to the gold lettering on the binding; otherwise a very good copy in a very good jacket which has some fading and browning to the backstrip and back panel. Signed and inscribed by William Faulkner, 12 Dec 1935, to Lawrence Edmunds, the founder of the Lawrence Edmunds bookshop in Hollywood.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE. 8vo. Folding facsimile of manuscript page at front. Publisher's half blue cloth over silver paper-covered boards, stamped in silver on spine, blue stamped biplane image on upper cover, top edge silvered. Spine slightly sunned, nick to top of spine, and a few scuffs to rear board. Number 93 of 310 copies, SIGNED BY FAULKNER on the limitation page.

First editions of each novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, 19 volumes, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt stamped signature to the front panel, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional set, rare and desirable. One of the most celebrated writers in American literature, William Faulkner became widely know upon his acceptance of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature, for which he became the only Mississippi-born Nobel winner. Awarded for "his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel", Faulkner donated part of his Nobel money "to establish a fund to support and encourage new fiction writers", eventually resulting in the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Limited Edition of 310 copies, of which this is no. 119. Signed by Faulkner on the limitations page. Housed in its original slipcase. Very Good. Blue cloth of spine with the typical toning. A couple small spots of flaking to silver foil cover. The facsimile manuscript page at frontis with a lengthy crease very near the free edge. Contents otherwise quite nice. Binding is square and firm. Very possibly an unread copy, as many pages are as yet uncut. Slipcase is Good, well-worn, but still complete and functional. Very faintly visible near the tail of the slipcase spine is the number "119", matching the copy number of the book. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. SIGNED/LIMITED EDITION of 310 copies. A wonderful copy SIGNED by William Faulkner on the limitation page. The book is in nice condition. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp with minor wear to the edges. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy SIGNED by the author. Signed by Author(s).

Cloth. Condition: Very good. Signed limited edition of Pylon by William Faulkner, in the original slipcase. (illustrator). Limited Edition. Octavo, 315pp, [3]. Blue cloth spine, title stamped in silver on spine. Bright silver foil boards. Top edge silver. Solid text block, internally fine. Fold-out frontispiece of facsimile manuscript. Shelf wear, sunning to spine, light rubbing to tips. In the publisher's cardboard slipcase, title on labels affixed to spine and front panel, wear to seams, partially reinforced, delicate condition. (Peterson A17.1b) Signed by the author on the limitation page, number 220 of 310 copies. William Faulkner (1897-1962) was a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author, recognized for A Fable in 1955 and The Reivers in 1963. The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, and Light in August were recognized by The Modern Library on their 1998 list of 100 Best English-language Novels of the 20th Century. Faulkner primarily set his stories in the American South, many of which took place in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Second printing (a month after the first). Touch of foxing to the topedge and hint of wear at the corners, near fine in near fine second issue variant dust jacket with new text on front flap and the rear panel and flap unprinted. Faulkner's novel of barnstorming aviation, a pursuit which took his brother Dean's life a few months after the book was published. This copy Signed by Faulkner on the title page: "William Faulkner. Sherman, Conn. 25 Oct 1945." The ink has smeared a bit but is easily readable. Although not inscribed, this was Malcolm Cowley's copy signed by Faulkner at Cowley's home in Sherman, Connecticut, where he and other important American authors were frequent visitors. Cowley was a poet and literary critic, and chronicler of the so-called "Lost Generation" of American expatriates in Paris. While probably best known for his book of poetry *Blue Juniata*, his most important work was his editing of the Viking Portable Library, where his selections and criticisms fostered the popularization of those American authors whose reputations and fortunes had suffered between the Wars. William Faulkner and F. Scott Fitzgerald, both of whom had to some degree disappeared from the landscape of the American literary conversation, enjoyed critical resurgences as the result of the Portable editions. Cowley's 1944 Portable Hemingway sold so well that he was able to convince Viking to publish a Portable Faulkner in 1946. William Faulkner was, at the time, slipping into literary obscurity. By the 1930s, he was working as a Hollywood screenwriter and in danger of seeing his works go out of print. Cowley argued for a dramatic revaluation of Faulkner's position in American letters, enlisting him as an honorary member of the Lost Generation. Robert Penn Warren called *The Portable Faulkner* the "great watershed" moment for Faulkner's reputation, and many scholars view Cowley's essay as having resuscitated Faulkner's career. Faulkner won a Nobel Prize in 1949. He later said, "I owe Malcolm Cowley the kind of debt no man could ever repay." A significant association copy.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Limited to 310 individually numbered copies signed by Faulkner. Original publisher's three-quarter blue cloth-backed silver foil-covered boards, with illustration of a plane to the front cover, spine lettered in silver, silver top edge; original publisher's paper-covered slipcase with title label to front board and spine. About fine with some slight fading to the spine; in the extremely fragile slipcase with some wear along the edges and completely free of any of the usual repairs or restoration. An excellent example, scarce in this condition. Housed in a custom quarter leather box. Pylon tells the story of a trio of airplane barnstormers (stunt pilots) who live on the outskirts of society. An unnamed reporter, intrigued and enamored by the trio's unique lifestyle, becomes emotionally invested in the trio, which ultimately leads to tragedy. Following the financial success of his novel Sanctuary (1931) and writing for Hollywood, Faulkner took up flying in the early 1930s, which gave him much of the raw material for Pylon. It is one of the few books written by Faulkner that is not set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha Country in Mississippi, instead set in New Valois, an area very similar to New Orleans. The book was adapted into the classic movie Tarnished Angels (1957), directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Rock Hudson. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Limited Issue number 160 of 310 numbered copies signed by the author on colophon page. In original glassine and good slip case. Silver foil boards chip back in light blue cloth, with title stamped in gilt on spine and pictorial device stamped in blue on front board; top edge gilt; 315 pages. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. SIGNED/LIMITED EDITION. A magnificent copy SIGNED by William Faulkner. The book is in nice condition. The binding is tight, and the boards are crisp with minor wear to the spine and edges. The pages are clean with NO marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a superb copy of this limited edition of 310 copies SIGNED by the author with a custom acetate cover to protect the book. We buy SIGNED Faulkner First Editions. Signed by Author(s).

Printed on fold-out page in front of title page, [William Faulkner writes the first draft of nearly all of his books in longhand. This is a facsimile of page 58 of the manuscript of "Pylon."]. Tight and clean copy. Foil covers have a few scrapes. Spine is slightly faded. Slipcase is in pieces and is taped. Signed Limited Edition, #262 of 310 copies, signed by William Faulkner.

1st Edition. First edition, NO. 267 OF 310 COPIES NUMBERED AND SIGNED by Faulkner. Folding frontispiece facsimile of a page of manuscript (slightly creased at lower edge). 1 vols. 8vo. Blue cloth stamped in silver with silver-coated boards. Spine is evenly faded, as usual, slight scuffing to silver paper, endpapers with slight browning; the scarce publisher's box present only in front and rear panels Folding frontispiece facsimile of a page of manuscript (slightly creased at lower edge). 1 vols. 8vo First edition, NO. 267 OF 310 COPIES NUMBERED AND SIGNED by Faulkner. Signed.

FAULKNER, William. Pylon. Folding facsimile frontis. Orig. cloth & pictorial foil, in publisher's box with paper labels(a little worn). N.Y.: Harrison Smith & Haas, 1935. First edition. One of 310 copies signed by the author. Fine copy. Massey 172. Signed.

First French language edition, first impression, originally published in the US in 1935. One of 50 hors commerce copies signed by the author on the title page, out of a total limitation of 1,040 copies. Octavo. Original black boards, spine lettered in gilt, decoration to spine and pylon designs to boards in red and blue. A little rubbed, wear to head of the spine, which is slightly faded, contents toned. An excellent copy.

Rare original carbon typescript of the novel Pylon,Âwith title in ink in the author's hand on the first page, a few leaves repaginated in the author's hand, 344 pages, each of the six chapters held together with a paper clip, [Oxford, Mississippi, ca. December 1934]. Newly discovered by the family and one of only two known typescripts of Pylon, it is the only one left entirely as Faulkner wrote it and is the only one in private hands. William Faulkner's retained unedited carbon typescript of his 1935 aviation novel, Pylon. This copy corresponds to the typescript setting copy in the collection of the Alderman Library, University of Virginia. The present copy is important in that it shows Faulkner's text in its unedited state. In his introduction to the facsimile of the typesetting copy, Noel Polk writes, "According to Faulkner's date on the final page of the holograph manuscript at the University of Mississippi, he completed the writing on November 26, 1934; but he had already sent [publisher Harrison] Smith the typescript of the first chapter before November 5, the second by November 23, and the third by November 30; the fourth bears the editorial date 12/5, the fifth 12/10, and the sixth and seventh 12/15. As was to the case with Absalom, Pylon underwent extensive editorial alteration. As the typescript setting copy ⦠demonstrates, editors bowlerized and 'normalized' the deliberate strangeness of the syntax and language and made hundreds of other rather arbitrary changes in the text. Smith, who spent a week in Oxford with Faulkner going over the galleys, had made many further editorial changes on them. The galleys, which were set beginning January 8, record both Faulkner's acquiescence to many of Smith's changes, his attempts to restore the original wording and punctuation, and numerous attempts to repair damage that Smith had done. Pylon was published on March 25, 1935."The incomplete 151-page autograph manuscript of the novel is in the collection of the University of Mississippi. The typescript setting copy at the University of Virginia and the present carbon typescript are the only known complete typescripts of the text. Corrected galley proofs are held by the Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas. Noel Polk based his 1985 corrected text (Library of America) on the Alderman Library typescript. As Faulkner told students at the University of Virginia in the 1960's, he wrote Pylon as a respite from the complications involved in writing Absalom, Absalom! The novel was written at great speed at the end of 1934. It has been called Faulkner's most self-consciously "modernistic" work, abounding in descriptions of aviators and their machines, runways, and art deco air terminals. Aside from the frequent references to Shakespeare in the novel, Faulkner takes pains to pay tribute to his modernist heroes James Joyce (in the second chapter, "An Evening in New Valois") and T. S. Eliot (throughout the novel, but especially in the penultimate chapter, "Lovesong of J. A. Prufrock"). Pylon is one of Faulkner's few non-Yoknapatawpha novels and is based on the festivities and air shows at New Orleans's newly built Shushan Airport, held to coincide with Mardi Gras, February 1934. In very good condition with the first leaf darkened and with paper loss at edges (some text lost in lower right corner), rust stain in upper right corner of chapters 1â"4, creasing and spotting to scattered leaves. Laid in: 2 British European Airways luggage claim tags. This carbon typescript, newly discovered by the family and one of only two known typescripts of Pylon, is the only one left entirely as Faulkner wrote it and is the only one in private hands. A novel at once sympathetic and explosive, Faulkner's Pylon is inhabited by characters still strange to the world today - a reckless and indomitable group of barnstormers performing in an unconventional flying circus. Set in a fictionalized version of New Orleans, the novel became the basis for the sensational 1957 film 'The Tarnished Angels' starring Rock Hudson, Robert Slack, and Dorothy Malone.

Condition: Near Fine. First edition. 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 reporter covers the story of a group of flyers on the circuit. "In Pylon Faulkner sets out to test their rootless modernity to see if there is any place in it for the old values of the human heart that are the central concerns of his best fiction" (Random House). Near Fine. Signed.

11 pp. 11 x 8-1/2 inches. Some slight edgewear; otherwise fine. Signed twice by William Faulkner and initialed by him four times in the margins; also signed by Estelle Oldham Faulkner and Jill Faulkner Summers. The film was eventually produced as "The Tarnished Angels" directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, and Dorothy Malone.

New York, Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1935. First limited signed edition. 20 x 14 cm. Bound with blue cloth corners and spine stamped in silver and metallic silver-coated paper-covered boards. Top edge also silver. With a frontispiece facsimile of a page of manuscript not included in the trade edition. Copy no 140 of only 310 copies SIGNED by Faulkner on colophon page. Spine faded as customary with this title, the silver lettering still good readable. [Bijzonder / Special [Bijzonder] English / American literature Genummerd / Numbered Gesigneerd / Signed ].

Original Typed Document Signed Ð Contract between Universal Pictures Company and William Faulkner purchasing the film rights to FaulknerÕs novel - ÒPylon.Ó 11 pages, March 1, 1956. Signed twice by William Faulkner, and initialed 4 times by him in the margins, and additionally signed by FaulknerÕs wife, Estelle Oldham Faulkner, and his daughter, Jill Faulkner Summers. Universal Pictures eventually produced the film as ÒThe Tarnished AngelsÓ directed by Douglas Sirk, and starring Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, and Dorothy Malone.