Item #140942299 The Town. William Faulkner, Manly Wade Wellman.
The Town
The Town
The Town
The Town
The Town

The Town

New York: Random House, 1957.

First edition, first printing with repeated line on p. 327, second state binding, jacket lacks 5/57 but is priced at $3.95. Signed by William Faulkner on the title page, inscribed to fellow Southern writer Manly Wade Wellman, "To W M Wellman from Bill Faulkner, Richmond 15 December 1958." A very interesting association as Faulkner notoriously made a stink when he was snubbed for a mystery story award in 1946, losing out to Wellman, a prolific genre writer. Rumor has it that Faulkner was drunk and looking to pick a fight with Wellman (a former college football player) until he realized his size. But the feud appears to have been short-lived; Wellman was an admirer of Faulkner's style and wrote critically on it. Upon Faulkner's death in 1962, though, Wellman was offered his position as writer-in-residence at University of Virginia but turned it down.

[viii], 371 pp. Bound in publisher's tan cloth with black lettering an green ruling. Near Fine with small ink smudge to title page, slight reading wear, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket. Item #140942299

Price: $9,500.00

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