First edition of Faulkner's novel set among the trick pilots and wing-walkers of a fictionalized New Orleans.
Very good minus in very good minus jacket.
Price: $250.00
"Because they aint human like us; they couldn't turn those pylons like they do if they had human blood and senses and they wouldn't want to or dare to if they just had human brains."
PYLON formed the basis for a 1957 Rock Hudson film, directed by Douglas Sirk and praised by Faulkner as the best screen adaptation of any of his works. No Hollywood production, however, could replicate the effect of the novel, whose cascading phrases – "rushing in a light curbchannelled spindrift of tortured and draggled serpentine and trodden confetti pending the dawn's whitewings — spent tinseldung of Momus' Nilebarge clatterfalque" — give to the reader something of the effect of falling out of a plane.
Read more: Petersen, William Faulkner: The Carl Petersen Collection, A17.1c.
First printing. New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, Inc, 1935. 7.5'' x 5''. Original gilt-stamped black and blue cloth. Black topstain. In original unclipped ($2.50) blue and black pictorial dust jacket. 315, [1] pages. Offsetting to endpapers and jacket flaps, faint imprint of erased inscription to front free endpaper, faint foxing to fore-edge. Moderate edgewear, spine toning, and a few small chips to jacket.
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