FAULKNER, WILLIAM. The Marble Faun. Boston: The Four Seas Company [1924]. 8vo, original mottled green boards, printed paper labels on front cover and spine, lower portion of spine cracked at both outer joints, ends of spine a bit worn and spine a bit faded with its label a little darkened; half morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION of the author's rare first book, PRESENTATION COPY TO ANITA LOOS, inscribed by Faulkner at top of front free endpaper: "To Anita, from Bill. 12 February 1924 , 1925," and signed by him on title-page: "William Faulkner 12 February 1924 1925" (both times Faulkner forgetting he was in a new year). It was during his stay in New Orleans in early 1925 ( The Marble Faun had been published in December 1924) that Faulkner met the future author of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (whose husband was a friend of the Sherwood Andersons). "Faulkner would straggle down to breakfast [at the Anderson house in the Vieux Carré], she [Anita Loos] remembered, carrying in his hand a glass of what she was sure was corn liquor. He would drink it before breakfast...She...remember[ed] his participating in one activity...Together they would mount the stone steps of the cathedral tower and climb to the belfry. There...they would order their liquor from a young priest, who was later unfrocked. But Anita Loos did not have much time herself for such pursuits...She was at work on a book about a young gold-digger who was firmly convinced that diamonds were a girl's best friend" -- Joseph Blotner, Faulkner: a Biography (New York, 1975), I, p. 411. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes was published to great acclaim later in 1925; see Selected Letters , ed. Blotner, p. 32, for a Faulkner letter to Anita Loos, dated "Something Febry 1926," praising "the Blonde book" and ending: "I wish I had thought of Dorothy first." The Marble Faun was published on 15 December 1924, probably in an edition of 500 copies (although 1000 had originally been planned). The printing was paid for by Faulkner's close friend Phil Stone, who also wrote the preface for this book of poetry. William Boozer, William Faulkner's First Book (Memphis, 1974), in his census of surviving copies states that about 70 copies are known to him; Joan St. C. Crane and Anne E.H. Freudenberg, compilers, Man Collecting: Manuscripts and Printed Works of William Faulkner in the University of Virginia Library (Charlottesville, 1975), pp. 27-29; Louis Daniel Brodsky and Robert W. Hamblin, Faulkner: a Comprehensive Guide to the Brodsky Collection. Volume I: The Biobibliography (Jackson, Miss., 1982), nos. 41-44; Carl Petersen Each in Its Ordered Place: a Faulkner Collector's Notebook (Ann Arbor, Mich., 1975), A1a. Provenance : William E. Stockhausen (sale, Park II, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 14 December 1974, lot 550, the recipient "Anita" not identified).
FAULKNER, WILLIAM. The Marble Faun. Boston: The Four Seas Company [1924]. 8vo, original mottled green boards, printed paper labels on front cover and spine, lower portion of spine cracked at both outer joints, ends of spine a bit worn and spine a bit faded with its label a little darkened; half morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION of the author's rare first book, PRESENTATION COPY TO ANITA LOOS, inscribed by Faulkner at top of front free endpaper: "To Anita, from Bill. 12 February 1924 , 1925," and signed by him on title-page: "William Faulkner 12 February 1924 1925" (both times Faulkner forgetting he was in a new year). It was during his stay in New Orleans in early 1925 ( The Marble Faun had been published in December 1924) that Faulkner met the future author of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (whose husband was a friend of the Sherwood Andersons). "Faulkner would straggle down to breakfast [at the Anderson house in the Vieux Carré], she [Anita Loos] remembered, carrying in his hand a glass of what she was sure was corn liquor. He would drink it before breakfast...She...remember[ed] his participating in one activity...Together they would mount the stone steps of the cathedral tower and climb to the belfry. There...they would order their liquor from a young priest, who was later unfrocked. But Anita Loos did not have much time herself for such pursuits...She was at work on a book about a young gold-digger who was firmly convinced that diamonds were a girl's best friend" -- Joseph Blotner, Faulkner: a Biography (New York, 1975), I, p. 411. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes was published to great acclaim later in 1925; see Selected Letters , ed. Blotner, p. 32, for a Faulkner letter to Anita Loos, dated "Something Febry 1926," praising "the Blonde book" and ending: "I wish I had thought of Dorothy first." The Marble Faun was published on 15 December 1924, probably in an edition of 500 copies (although 1000 had originally been planned). The printing was paid for by Faulkner's close friend Phil Stone, who also wrote the preface for this book of poetry. William Boozer, William Faulkner's First Book (Memphis, 1974), in his census of surviving copies states that about 70 copies are known to him; Joan St. C. Crane and Anne E.H. Freudenberg, compilers, Man Collecting: Manuscripts and Printed Works of William Faulkner in the University of Virginia Library (Charlottesville, 1975), pp. 27-29; Louis Daniel Brodsky and Robert W. Hamblin, Faulkner: a Comprehensive Guide to the Brodsky Collection. Volume I: The Biobibliography (Jackson, Miss., 1982), nos. 41-44; Carl Petersen Each in Its Ordered Place: a Faulkner Collector's Notebook (Ann Arbor, Mich., 1975), A1a. Provenance : William E. Stockhausen (sale, Park II, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 14 December 1974, lot 550, the recipient "Anita" not identified).
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