The Wild Palms. New York: Random House, [1939].
First edition.
Octavo. [iv], [1]-339, [1, blank] pp. Publisher’s tan cloth, front cover and spine stamped in gilt and ruled in green, top edge stained green, original dust jacket. One closed tear to upper joint of jacket, some rubbing to jacket, some browning to cloth spine and edges, along with some rubbing to cloth spine. Still, a near fine copy.
First edition, first state of the binding, in the third printing dust-jacket.
“The writer’s only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes him so much he must get rid of it. He has no peace until then. Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written. If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the “Ode on a Grecian Urn†is worth any number of old ladies.†(Faulkner from Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, 1959)
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3084
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800