GO DOWN, MOSES: And Other Stories
First trade edition of Faulkner's novel in seven interconnected parts.
Very good in very good minus jacket.
Price: $750.00
GO DOWN, MOSES: And Other Stories
"We don't want him tame. We want him like he is."
Though early editions include the subtitle "And Other Stories" and much of its material had been previously published as individual short stories, Faulkner conceived of the book as a unified whole, proposing it to his Random House editor as "a more or less continuous narrative, somewhat after THE UNVANQUISHED" (Blotner). "Difficult as its structure is, forcing the reader literally to put together glimpses of information," GO DOWN MOSES "replicates the process of a mind coming to understanding. It is as if Faulkner himself needed, in writing the book, to be led to the meaning of his own fictional statement" (Wagner-Martin).
Read more: William Faulkner: The Carl Petersen Collection, A23.2b; Blotner, Faukner: A Biography; Wagner-Martin, New Essays on Go Down, Moses.
The Object
First printing. New York: Random House, (1942). 8'' x 5.25''. Original black cloth stamped in red and gilt. Burgundy topstain. In original price-clipped pictorial dust jacket. 383, [1] pages. Minor edgewear to boards, faint smudges to edges of text block. Light chipping and edgewear to jacket. Long vertical closed tear to front jacket panel, rear panel lightly toned.
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