A Fable

Language: English

Published by Random House, New York, 1954

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First edition, first printing. Original maroon cloth binding with blue and embossed decoration on cover, and cream and white text on spine. Dust-jacket in fair condition, but protected with a mylar cover. There is a tear down the center of the dust-jacket spine, and minor tearing and wear to edges. Binding shows a light stain to the spine's cloth. Mesh is showing at front pastedown hinge. Ownership information in ink on flyleaf. Pages are clean and unmarked. Faulkner spent more than a decade and tremendous effort on A Fable, and aspired for it to be "the best work of my life and maybe of my time." It won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Historically, it can be seen as a precursor to Joseph Heller's Catch-22. The book takes place in France during World War I and stretches through the course of one week in 1918. William Cuthbert Faulkner (1897-1962) is best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in for Lafayette County where he spent most of his life. Winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature, Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers of American literature, often considered the greatest writer of Southern literature and regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. Hardcover, good to very good condition. 437 pages, octavo.…

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Bibliographic details

Title
A Fable
Author
William Faulkner
Publisher
Random House, New York
Publication year
1954
Condition
Good
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
Edition
1st Edition
Item weight
1.41 pounds
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Roundabout Books is a bookstore for book people: an independent, locally-owned bookstore in the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts. Our physical shop is located in the old Diamond-Electric Soap Factory at 85 Pierce Street, just two blocks off Federal Street in Greenfield. We offer an extensive, organized, and thoughtful collection of used and new books at excellent prices. We hope you will find our store welcoming and that our love of books shows through in our work. If you are here in-person, come wander and browse an expansive collection of all genres, including poetry, science, history, literature in translation, and university presses. Enjoy our historic industrial building transformed, and envisioned as accessible and environmentally sustainable for the future. Please stop in or give us a call if you have questions for us!…

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