Yoknawpatawpha Press

Publishing Oxford, MS

Marionettes

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Marionettes
$250.00
Author: William Faulkner
ISBN: 0916242013

Marionettes by William Faulkner Deluxe facsimile boxed edition of William Faulkner's first book, a one-act play which he wrote, illustrated, handprinted and bound by hand as a college student in 1920.

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Marionettes by William Faulkner Deluxe facsimile boxed edition of William Faulkner’s first book, a one-act play which he wrote, illustrated, handprinted and bound by hand as a college student in 1920. This exact facsimile features rust painted on the staples in the binding and uses fine stationary paper fused by bonding two sheets, then chemically aging the paper to achieve a yellowish tint.

William Faulkner

William Faulkner, American author (1897-1962), received two Pulitzer prizes for literature, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and two National Book Awards. He was born in New Albany, Mississippi in 1897, and lived most of his life in Oxford, Mississippi. His first book, which he printed by hand, illustrated and bound while a student at the University of Mississippi in 1920, was "Marionettes." Much of his early work was poetry, such as the romantic sonnet sequence, Helen: A Courtship. His novels set in the American South, frequently in his fictional Yoknapatawpha County, include The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying and Absalom, Absalom! He died on July 6, 1962.