Salmagundi

William Faulkner. First edition. Limited to 525 copies this being No. 204. Dust Jacket: None issued. Softcover: Near Fine. Milwaukee: The Casanova Press, 1932. Does not have a slipcase. No writing, marks or bookplates in this beautiful edition, 53 pp. This is the first book of this press. Designed by Paul Romaine. 

A limited edition that includes a youthful collection of poems and articles by William Faulkner that also includes a poem by his contemporary Ernest Hemingway. In addition to Hemingway’s poem, Salmagundi contains five poems and three prose pieces by Faulkner.

The poem, "Ultimately" is a four line poem by a young Hemingway, found on the rear cover, dated June 1922. This would make Hemingway about 23 soon-to-be turning 24 years old. 

The articles and poems in Salmagundi first appeared in the New Orleans’ magazine, The Double Dealer, and were reprinted with Faulkner’s permission. The inclusion of Hemingway’s poem on the rear wrapper was done as “just a whim,” but “a whim inspired by one of the oddest coincidences in modern literature: William Faulkner’s poem Portrait and Ernest Hemingway’s poem, Ultimately, both appear on page 337 of the June 1922 issue of The Double Dealer."