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New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927. Fine in very good plus jacket.. First edition of Faulkner's Huxleyesque satire on sex, swamps, artists, and boats, featuring an ungenerous portrayal of Sherwood Anderson as "Dawson Fairchild, the novelist, resembling a benevolent walrus." Faulkner's second novel took the then-fashionable form of stranding a small group of reprehensible sophisticates in intolerable circumstances and forcing them to have arch conversations with one another until rescue arrived or the book ended, whichever came first. Though rarely ranked among the author's greatest works, MOSQUITOES "owes its messiness more to uncertain intention and undisciplined exuberance than to ignorance, spite, or vacuity" (Yamaguchi). An attractive copy. 7.25'' x 5.25''. Original blue cloth with yellow lettering. Decorative blue endpapers. In original price-clipped red and green dust jacket. 349, [1] pages. Minor scuffing and a few tiny chips to jacket, spine toned. Light edgewear to…

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.