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1927 First Edition
Hardcover
USD$5,000

Description

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket with publisher's price of $2.50 intact. Pale orange title stamping is nice and bright. Cloth lightly rubbed at extremities, lightly mottling at rear. Light shelf lean. Previous owner personal library stamp to verso of front free end paper, small tear to edge of page. Dust jacket is heavily toned at the spine, lightly worn at corners and spine ends with several short tears at the joints, and a series of small stray ink dots to front flap. A rather nice jacketed copy of Faulkner's second novel.

About Mosquitoes

Mosquitoes is a satirical novel by the American author William Faulkner. It was Faulkner's second novel, and it explores the lives and motivations of several artists and their social circle during a week-long yacht excursion from New Orleans to the Gulf of Mexico.

Identifying the First Edition of Mosquitoes

First editions of 'Mosquitoes' will be published by Boni & Liveright and have the characteristic liveright colophon on the spine or the dust jacket. First edition might also state 'First Edition' on the copyright page.