THE HAMLET

by William Faulkner

$2,800 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

New York: Random House, 1940. First Edition. An attractive copy of the first volume in Faulkner's Snopes Trilogy. Basis for Martin Ritt's 1958 film The Long, Hot Summer, starring Paul Newman, Orson Welles, and Joanne Woodward. Petersen A20a. Item #4962 First Printing. Octavo 20.75cm ; black cloth, with titling and rule stamped in gilt and red on spine and front panel; purple topstain;

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