A Fable

First edition, first printing. Original maroon cloth binding with blue and embossed decoration on cover, and cream and white text on spine. Dust-jacket in fair condition, but protected with a mylar cover. There is a tear down the center of the dust-jacket spine, and minor tearing and wear to edges. Binding shows a light stain to the spine's cloth. Mesh is showing at front pastedown hinge. Ownership information in ink on flyleaf. Pages are clean and unmarked. Faulkner spent more than a decade and tremendous effort on A Fable, and aspired for it to be "the best work of my life and maybe of my time." It won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Historically, it can be seen as a precursor to Joseph Heller's Catch-22. The book takes place in France during World War I and stretches through the course of one week in 1918. William Cuthbert Faulkner (1897-1962) is best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in for Lafayette County where he spent most of his life. Winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature, Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers of American literature, often considered the greatest writer of Southern literature and regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. Hardcover, good to very good condition. 437 pages, octavo.…