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. Half a dozen small fox-spots to the fore edge. Very good indeed in pictorial dust wrapper designed by Lynton Lamb (considerably more striking than that housing the US edition), non-price-clipped but with a centimetre of loss from the head of the spine panel, two or three tiny fractions of further loss, and a short edge-tear. 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 various magazines and periodicals, with the title story appearing in print here for the first time., Very Good, Good