The Hamlet William Faulkner [Very Good] [Hardcover]

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VERY GOOD DUST JACKET: Chipping to top and bottom of spine and all outside corners, w/diagonal closed tear and sunning to former. FRONT PANEL SEPARATED FROM SPINE (REATTACHED WITH ARCHIVAL TAPE). Stressing/abrasions to hinges and flap folds w/a few scuffs to spine. Minor soiling to folds; top and right side of back panel. Spine tear mended on reverse with archival tape. BOARDS: Very good condition. Several small specks to upper front. Very small bump to bottom corners. BOOK: Nice topstain. Bookplate affixed to lower left, front paste-down. Please inspect photos and read description closely for condition details. More pics available on request. ****************************** Here on offer is a very nice copy of William Faulkner's, The Hamlet, a chronicle of the fictional Snopes family of Mississippi. Originally a standalone novel, it was later followed by The Town (1957) and The Mansion (1959), forming the Snopes trilogy. The 1958 film: The Long, Hot Summer, starring Paul Newman, was very loosely based on the book. This copy is a 1st American trade edition, 1st printing of the work published by Random House in 1940. The dust jacket is protected from further wear by a Mylar sleeve. ************************************************** ""The Hamlet, the first novel of Faulkner's Snopes trilogy, is both an ironic take on classical tragedy and a mordant commentary on the grand pretensions of the antebellum South and the depths of its decay in the aftermath of war and Reconstruction. It tells of the advent and the rise of the Snopes family in Frenchman's Bend, a small town built on the ruins of a once-stately plantation. Flem Snopes -- wily, energetic, a man of shady origins -- quickly comes to dominate the town and its people with his cunning and guile."" ////////////////////////////////////////////////// William Cuthbert Faulkner (September 25, 1897 July 6, 1962) was an American writer known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where Faulkner spent most of his life. A Nobel laureate, Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers of American literature and often is considered the greatest writer of Southern literature. ///// Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, and his family moved to Oxford, Mississippi, when he was a child. With the outbreak of World War I, he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force, but did not serve in combat. Returning to Oxford, he attended the University of Mississippi for three semesters before dropping out. He moved to New Orleans, where he wrote his first novel Soldiers' Pay (1925). He went back to Oxford and wrote Sartoris (1927), his first work set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County. In 1929, he published The Sound and the Fury. The following year, he wrote As I Lay Dying. Later that decade, he wrote Light in August, Absalom, Absalom! and The Wild Palms. He also worked as a screenwriter, contributing to Howard Hawks's To Have and Have Not...