FAULKNER WILLIAM: (1897-1962) American writer, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1949. Book signed, being a hardback edition of A Fable, First Edition published by Random House, New York, 1954. Limited edition number 939 of 1000 copies, signed and numbered by Faulkner in bold blue fountain pen ink to the limitations page. Printed on rag paper and top edge black, bound in the publisher's original decorative black cloth and with gold and silver title and lettering to the spine, Contained in the original card slipcase (some light staining and age wear, and minor scuffs and tears to the printed label). Lacking the glassine jacket. About VG