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THE HAMLET
de Faulkner, William
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- First
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Stephenson, Virginia, United States
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New York: Random House, 1940. First Edition. An attractive copy of the first volume in Faulkner's Snopes Trilogy. Basis for Martin Ritt's 1958 film The Long, Hot Summer, starring Paul Newman, Orson Welles, and Joanne Woodward. Petersen A20a. First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm); black cloth, with titling and rule stamped in gilt and red on spine and front panel; purple topstain; dustjacket; [x],[2],3-421,[3]pp. Some trivial handling to boards, with light oxidation to gilt; Near Fine, with the purple topstain bright and unfaded. In the first state dustjacket designed by James Salter, with 10 Random House titles listed on rear panel; unclipped (priced $2.50), gently spine-sunned, with light wear to extremities, and a tiny nick at crown; a Near Fine, unrestored example.
Sinopsis
William Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, on September 25, 1897. He published his first book, The Marble Faun (a collection of poems), in 1924, and his first novel, Soldier's Pay, in 1926. In 1949, having written such works as Absalom, Absalom!, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, and The Sound and the Fury, Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He also received the Pulitzer Prize for two other novels, A Fable (1954) and The Reivers (1962). From 1957 to 1958 he was Writer-in-Residence at the University of Virginia. He died on July 6, 1962, in Byhalia, Mississippi.
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- Librería
- Captain Ahab's Rare Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 4962
- Título
- THE HAMLET
- Autor
- Faulkner, William
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Random House
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1940
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- Gilt
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- First Edition
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- Fine
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- Spine
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- First State
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