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New York: The Modern Library, 1967. First Edition, Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 12mo, 315pp. Beautiful Stated First Modern Library Edition, September, 1967. Bound in green cloth with gilt titles on the spine and blind-stamped decoration on the front board. Square, tight and clean throughout with just a touch of softness to spine ends. Very attractive unclipped dust jacket, ($2.45), has a touch of edge-wear and lite toning to edges. Still fresh and bright with no chipping, creases or tears. A sharp collectable copy. Toledano, p56.

New York: The Modern Library, 1967. First Thus. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 7x4x1. 1967 first thus, Toledano 380.1, binding/jacket style 12n with blank verso, $2.45 jacket price, brown Fujita endpapers. Near fine in very good jacket. Tape remnant on jacket spine base. 315 pp. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950. One of the few of William Faulkner's works to be set outside his fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Pylon, first published in 1935, takes place at an air show in a thinly disguised New Orleans named New Valois. An unnamed reporter for a local newspaper tries to understand a very modern ménage a trois of flyers on the brainstorming circuit. These characters, Faulkner said, “were a fantastic and bizarre phenomenon on the face of the contemporary scene. . . . That is, there was really no place for them in the culture, in the economy, yet they were there, at that time, and everyone knew that they wouldn't last very long, which they didn't.… Leer más