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COLLECTOR’S EDITION OF JOHN FAULKNER’S CABIN ROAD

January 4, 2022 By Lawrence Wells

In 1975 Yoknapatawpha Press purchased the unsold copies of the 1969 LSU Press edition of Cabin Road by John Faulkner – Introduction by Redding S. Sugg, Jr. This hardcover shrinkwrapped in mint condition with the original LSU dust jacket, 197 pages, has become a Faulkner collector item. $50.00.

Cabin Road, originally published in 1951, was the first of John Faulkner’s five novels dealing in a humorous vein with the people of the Mississippi back country. It is the rustic tale of a bewildered “government man” marooned among the poor whites of North Mississippi—surrounded by characters as folksy and earthy as any found in old Southwest Humor. Cabin Road shows John Faulkner as an author who displayed originality, vitality, and distinctiveness even when writing in the shadow of his more famous brother.

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Founded in 1975, Yoknapatawpha Press is a southern regional press established by co-publishers, Lawrence Wells and the late Dean Faulkner Wells. Most of the press's projects are generated in-house.The company is named for William Faulkner's fictional county, Yoknapatawpha, from the Chickasaw word meaning "gentle water."

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