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Auction #114 begins on 11 Apr 2024

William FAULKNER. Doctor Martino and other stories. NY:1934. 1st trade printing. + damaged dj

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From the Dobo collection.

The first 36 lots in this sale are from the collection of Francis Dobo (1908-1998)

William FAULKNER (1897-1962). Doctor Martino and other stories. New York: Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, 1934. Octavo (7 3/8 x 4 ¾  inches; 187 x 120mm). Pp. [i-viii;]1-371[-372 blank]. Original dark blue cloth, upper cover and spine blocked in gilt, top edge yellow, original dust jacket in four pieces with the original "$2.50" printed price present on the front flap (binding with some soiling to spine, rubbed at head and foot, and with gilt faded to pale green; dust-jacket in pieces and lacking the backstrip entirely and with other significant loss: now preserved in a mylar cover).

First edition, first trade printing of the author’s second collection of short stories: “This collection represents a distinct advance in Mr. Faulkner’s work and in his versatility during a period in which his reputation as one of the most important writers in the country has become firmly established” (front flap).

Francis Dobo: the “epitome of a 20th Century intellectual” Hungarian born Francis F. Dobo (1908-1998) was an important figure in the world of publishing, contemporary literature and photography for over half a century. He was lifelong friends with the renowned Hungarian masters of candid photography, Brassaï and André Kertész, first in Hungary and later in Paris in the 1930s. It was in Paris he encountered Henry Miller, Louis-Ferdinand Celine and Raymond Queneau: he corresponded and supported Miller from then on, and subsequently became Queneau’s U.S. agent.  Love of books and literature seems to have been a family trait: his uncle was Gabriel Wells (1861-1946), one of the two most important rare book dealers of his generation. The present selection includes a small number of books which belonged to Wells, with the rest being a cross section of the best of the contemporary literature which was such an important part of Francis’ life. William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Arthur Koestler, Christopher Isherwood, Norman Mailer, Franz Kafka are all here !

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