William Faulkner: Early Prose and Poetry

William Faulkner. First U.K. Edition. Compilation and Introduction by Carvel Collins. Dust Jacket: Fine. An unclipped jacket in a mylar protective wrapper. Jacket designed beautifully by Jonathan Cape. Hardcover: Fine. London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. No writing or markings in this well preserved first edition, 134 pp. Illustrated with drawings. Green cloth with silver lettering on the spine. 

A collection of sixteen poems, eighteen pen-and-ink drawings, and several prose pieces from William Faulkner, an American writer and winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature considered one of the greatest writers of Southern literature. This collection includes Landing in Luck, Faulkner's first work of fiction, and illustrates his intention to focus on his poetry in the earliest years of his writing. Collected and edited by Professor Carvel Collins, an American biographer, Bishop, and authority on Faulkner.