Pylon
$25,000 · Offered by Biblio
Signed · In dust jacket
New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1935. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Second printing (a month after the first). Touch of foxing to the topedge and hint of wear at the corners, near fine in near fine second issue variant dust jacket with new text on front flap and the rear panel and flap unprinted. Faulkner's novel of barnstorming aviation, a pursuit which took his brother Dean's life a few months after the book was published. This copy Signed by Faulkner on the title page: "William Faulkner. Sherman, Conn. 25 Oct 1945." The ink has smeared a bit but is easily readable. Although not inscribed, this was Malcolm Cowley's copy signed by Faulkner at Cowley's home in Sherman, Connecticut, where he and other important American authors were frequent visitors. Cowley was a poet and literary critic, and chronicler of the so-called "Lost Generation" of American expatriates in Paris. While probably best known for his book of poetry *Blue Juniata*, his most important work was his editing of the Viking Portable Library, where his selections and criticisms fostered the popularization of those American authors whose reputations and fortunes had suffered between the Wars. William Faulkner and F. Scott Fitzgerald, both of whom had to some degree disappeared from the landscape of the American literary conversation, enjoyed critical resurgences as the result of the Portable editions. Cowley's 1944 Portable Hemingway sold so well that he was able to convince Viking to publish a Portabl
- Publisher: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas
- Year: 1935
- Printing: later
- Binding: hardcover
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