Our catalogue XXXI 
Books by and about William Faulkner
Faulkner, William . Go Down Moses and Other Stories. New York: Random House, (1942). Octavo, three-quarter brick red cloth over salmon colored, textured paper boards, top edge gilt , in original tissue wrapper, housed in a custom made slipcase. Two tiny stains on foredge, otherwise an immaculate copy. First edition. One of 100 copies, signed by the author. Published May 11, 1942, by Random House, dedicated "To Mammy Caroline Barr, Mississippi, [1840-1940]: Who was born in slavery and who gave to my family a fidelity without stint or calculation of recompense and to my childhood an immeasurable devotion and love." One of Faulkner's masterpieces, Go Down, Moses is an episodic novel consisting of short stories, most of which were published elsewhere. A difficult novel at times, the novel tells the story of the McCaslin family, beginning with the family patriarch Lucius Quintus Carothers McCaslin, and his many descendants, both black and white. It is a noteworthy exploration of race, particularly as it is compounded with miscegenation, and is concerned also with the vanishing wilderness. Faulkner intended the stories as a novel and the words "and Other Stories" were dropped from the trade edition. This is the smallest limitation of any of Faulkner's books and as such drastically limits the number of complete collections of his works. [Petersen, Clark. Each In Its Ordered Place: A Faulkner Collector's Notebook A.23.2a]. $25,000.00. #22705 View image here
Faulkner, William . The Hamlet. New York: Random House, 1940. Volume 1 of the Snopes Trilogy. Octavo, three-quarter dark green cloth over pale green boards, top edge gilt, housed in gray custom box. Very slight rub mark on gilt edges. A fine copy. First edition. One of 250 copies, signed by the author. Considered to be one of Faulkner's masterpieces. The Hamlet is one of the smallest limitations of Faulkner's signed editions. The later volumes in the Snopes Trilogy were issued in much larger limitations; however, because of the small run of The Hamlet there can only be 250 complete sets. [Petersen, Clark. Each In Its Ordered Place: A Faulkner Collector's Notebook A.20.c]. $6,000.00. #19535 View image here
[Faulkner, William]. Howard, Peter B. William Faulkner. The Carl Petersen Collection. Serendipity Books: Catalogue 48. Berkeley: Serendipity Books, 1991. Illustrated. Thick octavo, wrappers. Fine. Errata leaf laid in. A 643 page bookseller's catalogue, with notes on manuscripts and typescripts, letters and telegrams, signed documents including his 1951 will, apprenticeship appearances, separately published books and broadsides including foreign editions, short stories, poems, essays and speeches, published correspondence, recordings, published interviews, film work and films based on Faulkner's work, works by other members of the Faulkner family, graphics, photographs, memorabilia, background material, and critical and secondary material. $20.00. #40924.
[Faulkner, William]. Petersen, Carl. Each in Its Ordered Place. A Faulkner Collector's Notebook. Ardis, Ann Arbor: Ardis Publisher, (1975). 311 pp. Illustrated. Quarto, green textured cloth lettered in gilt, pictorial dust jacket (small tear at upper edge, slight browning to edges). Fine. First edition. One of 1,000 copies. The most complete and useful bibliographical tool for Faulkner to date. $100.00. #26614