Pylon.
$40,000 · Offered by Biblio
First edition · Signed
Oxford, Mississippi: N/P, c. 1934. Rare original carbon typescript of the novel Pylon, with title in ink in the author's hand on the first page, a few leaves repaginated in the author's hand, 344 pages, each of the six chapters held together with a paper clip, [Oxford, Mississippi, ca. December 1934]. Newly discovered by the family and one of only two known typescripts of Pylon, it is the only one left entirely as Faulkner wrote it and is the only one in private hands. William Faulkner's retained unedited carbon typescript of his 1935 aviation novel, Pylon. This copy corresponds to the typescript setting copy in the collection of the Alderman Library, University of Virginia. The present copy is important in that it shows Faulkner's text in its unedited state. In his introduction to the facsimile of the typesetting copy, Noel Polk writes, "According to Faulkner's date on the final page of the holograph manuscript at the University of Mississippi, he completed the writing on November 26, 1934; but he had already sent [publisher Harrison] Smith the typescript of the first chapter before November 5, the second by November 23, and the third by November 30; the fourth bears the editorial date 12/5, the fifth 12/10, and the sixth and seventh 12/15. As was to the case with Absalom, Pylon underwent extensive editorial alteration. As the typescript setting copy … demonstrates, editors bowlerized and 'normalized' the deliberate strangeness of the syntax and language and made hundreds of
- Publisher: N/P
- Year: 1934
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: unknown
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