MOSQUITOES

by William Faulkner

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First edition

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927. First edition of Faulkner's Huxleyesque satire on sex, swamps, artists, and boats — featuring an ungenerous portrayal of Sherwood Anderson as Dawson Fairchild, the novelist, resembling a benevolent walrus. Fine in very good plus jacket. Item #50856 Faulkner's second novel took the then-fashionable form of stranding a small group of reprehensible sophisticates in intolerable

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