FAULKNER, William. The Portable Faulkner . Edited, with an Introduction and Notes by Malcolm Cowley. New York: Viking Press, 1946.
FAULKNER, William. The Portable Faulkner . Edited, with an Introduction and Notes by Malcolm Cowley. New York: Viking Press, 1946. 18 o . Original cream cloth, stamped in black on front cover and spine, map pastedowns (cloth a little soiling); dust jacket, first issue with three-fold front flap (extremities rubbed, spine panel slightly faded); quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance : MAUD FAULKNER, his mother (presentation inscription). FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY FAULKNER TO HIS MOTHER on the front flyleaf: "Mother with love Billy." ADDITIONALLY INSCRIBED on the title-page: "William Faulkner Oxford, Miss 12 May 1946." The significance of The Portable Faulkner and Cowley's editing and introduction cannot be overemphasized. It is really not a collection of short stories, but an attempt by the respected critic and scholar, Malcolm Cowley, to draw attention to Faulkner's works, which at the time were almost entirely out of print. His effort to unify the seemingly chaotic landscape of Faulkner's fiction was widely seen as a triumph, including by Faulkner himself, who wrote in a letter to Cowley: "The job is splendid. Damn you to hell anyway. But even if I had beat you to the idea, mine wouldn't have been this good. By God, I didnt know myself what I had tried to do, and how much I had succeeded." ( Selected Letters , edited by Joseph Blotner, New York, 1977, p. 233). Cowley's compilation introduced Faulkner's work to a new generation of readers, and largely because of this Faulkner finally achieved the critical and popular acclaim that had eluded him. The only new piece of writing in The Portable Faulkner was the appendix to The Sound and the Fury which Faulkner wrote specifically for this compilation. The works are collected in roughly chronological order, making it easier to experience a kind of sweeping saga set in Yoknapatawpha County. Petersen A25.1.
FAULKNER, William. The Portable Faulkner . Edited, with an Introduction and Notes by Malcolm Cowley. New York: Viking Press, 1946.
FAULKNER, William. The Portable Faulkner . Edited, with an Introduction and Notes by Malcolm Cowley. New York: Viking Press, 1946. 18 o . Original cream cloth, stamped in black on front cover and spine, map pastedowns (cloth a little soiling); dust jacket, first issue with three-fold front flap (extremities rubbed, spine panel slightly faded); quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance : MAUD FAULKNER, his mother (presentation inscription). FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY FAULKNER TO HIS MOTHER on the front flyleaf: "Mother with love Billy." ADDITIONALLY INSCRIBED on the title-page: "William Faulkner Oxford, Miss 12 May 1946." The significance of The Portable Faulkner and Cowley's editing and introduction cannot be overemphasized. It is really not a collection of short stories, but an attempt by the respected critic and scholar, Malcolm Cowley, to draw attention to Faulkner's works, which at the time were almost entirely out of print. His effort to unify the seemingly chaotic landscape of Faulkner's fiction was widely seen as a triumph, including by Faulkner himself, who wrote in a letter to Cowley: "The job is splendid. Damn you to hell anyway. But even if I had beat you to the idea, mine wouldn't have been this good. By God, I didnt know myself what I had tried to do, and how much I had succeeded." ( Selected Letters , edited by Joseph Blotner, New York, 1977, p. 233). Cowley's compilation introduced Faulkner's work to a new generation of readers, and largely because of this Faulkner finally achieved the critical and popular acclaim that had eluded him. The only new piece of writing in The Portable Faulkner was the appendix to The Sound and the Fury which Faulkner wrote specifically for this compilation. The works are collected in roughly chronological order, making it easier to experience a kind of sweeping saga set in Yoknapatawpha County. Petersen A25.1.
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