First UK edition of Faulkner's first published novel, a post-WWI story of a wounded aviator's return to his Georgia home.
Very good plus in very good plus jacket.
Price: $1,500.00
"Unless Faulkner runs off the rails, as some young men do, but as he probably will not, Soldiers' Pay will be an extremely vauable collectors' item in twenty years' time." - Arnold Bennett
A commercial failure but a distinct critical success, SOLDIERS' PAY was praised by contemporary critics in both England and America for its examination of the marks left by war on men in in a postwar landscape. "It is a tragic, fascinating, and beautiful story; told by a man who is a novelist to his finger-tips," Hughes wrote in his preface, declaring Faulkner "the most interesting novelist in America."
Read more: Petersen, William Faulkner: The Petersen Collection, A2.14; Bennett, review, Evening Standard, quoted in Bassett, William Faulkner.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1930. 7.5'' x 5''. Original green cloth with gilt-lettered spine. Dark green topstain. In original unclipped (7s. 6d.) dust jacket. 326, [6] pages. Light bumping to boards. Pencil owner name to front fly leaf and a few faint pencil check marks to page margins. Mild wear and toning to jacket, shallow chipping to spine ends.
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