Buy this book on-line Faulkner, William : MosquitoesChatto & Windus, 1964
The dust coat is still in a good condition, except for some tape residue on the flaps. The boards too are still presentable, besides some rubber stamps within the front. The front end page has been removed. Internally clean, except for some age related marks. Tightly bound and complete with 288 pages. [B.K.]. Book Condition: Fair. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Good Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Faulkner, William : Mosquitoes. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. FAULKNER William : MosquitoesChatto & Windus, London, 1964
12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. price clipped dust jacket with worn and rubbed to edges, silverfish have eaten away the author name to the spine of the dust jacket and also the edges top and bottom of the fold in flaps, book is tidy though, first English edition, 288pp. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Good Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of FAULKNER William : Mosquitoes. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Faulkner, William : MosquitoesDell, 1927
Illustrated wraps soft cover Dell Books 708. In archival cover., Near Fine Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Faulkner, William : Mosquitoes. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. FAULKNER**, WILLIAM: : MOSQUITOESLONDON.CHATTO & WINDUS,1964. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj,1st edn.
NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,assumed,
diagonal price-clip to dw/dj - but publisher's subsequent,post-1971 (decimal
- £3.50) price-sticker in situ,just above the original clip! Bright,crisp,clean, protected,cranberry and lavender artwork by E.R.Bartlett illustrated dw/dj,with white,cranberry and lavender letters; with
negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners
- no major nicks or tears.Miniscule rubbing to top right-hand corner with reciprocal miniscule loss,top of spine/
backstrip minimally bumped with some minimal creasing.Top+fore-edges slightly aged/tanned - as usual/normal,contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Publisher's original,near immaculate,grey-mauve textured cloth bds with pristine,bright stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip with immaculate plain white eps.8vo,9-288pp [paginated] includes
Richard Hughes intro,prologue+epilogue and 4 chapters,plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages,dedication,and contents list/ table.
Faulkner's second novel was the only purely comic book he wrote until his very last book,'The Reivers'.It has NEVER previously been published in this country (UK) - for no better reason than that his output was so constant (24 books in just over 30 years) that,starting two books behind America - and with WWII intervening
- Chatto & Windus have only now caught up with this early extravaganza.
'Mosquitoes' has the colour,humour and originality of Faulkner's maturer writing,
together with a youthful exuberance which will delight the reader.Opening in New Orleans,steamy and rich as compost,the story proceeds to a voyage among the Florida cays.Mrs Maurier,a culture vulture
from the same aviary as the Marx Brothers'
statuesque and preposterous 'Mrs Rittenrotten',takes an unruly group of acquaintances on her yacht.A laconic poet,
a too articulate novelist,a surly sculptor,a very English major,a Jewish cynic,a young man with a straw hat and an accomodating blonde,all help to disrupt Mrs Maurier's cultural outing.Drink flows,
anecdotes run wild (the story of the sheep-farm in the swamp is surely the funniest thing Faulkner ever wrote): the yacht runs aground,a young couple get lost,a man spends half a day looking for his own body.
'Mosquitoes',though it moves between the brink of tragedy and the edge of farce,is above all a superb example of the comic invention which was an essential part of Faulkner's genius.
Originally,privately printed in 1927,in America,a revised edition was published by Garden City(US) in 1937 and then first published in the UK,Chatto & Windus,1964.
Well regarded in America,particularly ever
since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1949,his reputation in the UK is high too,
but even English firsts are notoriously hard to come by and therefore difficult to
collect.A particularly solid,sound copy in
enviable condition,as nice as this is.
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