WILLIAM FAULKNER. — Knight's Gambit. Stories.

Chatto & Windus, London, 1st Edition, First UK Edition (first printing), issued two years after the original American edition. 8vo. 218pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A virtually fine copy in the pictorial dust wrapper designed by Lynton Lamb (considerably more striking than that housing the US edition), price-clipped and with a little jagged loss to the spine panel ends, and a fraction more from the upper edge and several corner tips, and some light toning and soiling to the rear panel. Six stories featuring Faulkner-regular Gavin Stevens (who first featured in his novel 'Intruder in the Dust'). Five of the stories had originally appeared in assorted magazines and periodicals, with the title story appearing in print here for the first time., Near Fine, Good