PYLON

By William Faulkner
1935

Signed limited first edition of this novel set among the trick pilots and wing-walkers of a fictionalized New Orleans.

Very good plus.

"Because they aint human like us; they couldn't turn those pylons like they do if they had human blood and senses and they wouldn't want to or dare to if they just had human brains."

PYLON formed the basis for a 1957 Rock Hudson film, directed by Douglas Sirk and praised by Faulkner as the best screen adaptation of any of his works. No Hollywood production, however, could replicate the effect of the novel, whose cascading phrases - "rushing in a light curbchannelled spindrift of tortured and draggled serpentine and trodden confetti pending the dawn's whitewings - spent tinseldung of Momus' Nilebarge clatterfalque" - give to the reader something of the effect of falling out of a plane.

Read more: Petersen, William Faulkner: The Carl Petersen Collection, A17.1b.

New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, Inc, 1935. 7.5'' x 5''. Original three-quarter blue cloth with silver metallic boards, stamped in blue with the image of an airplane. Top edge silver. Lacking original slipcase. Tipped-in fold-out fascimile of manuscript page 58. 315, [1] pages. Edition of 310 numbered and signed copies of which 300 were for sale, this copy no. 99. Signed by Faulkner at colophon. Light soil and edgewear, corners bumped, some faint scratches to boards. Spine sunned.

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