Books published by publisher Franklin Library. 1975. First Edition

Light in August is a 1932 novel by the Southern American author William Faulkner. It belongs to the Southern gothic and modernist literary genres. In a loose, unstructured modernist narrative style that draws from Christian allegory and oral storytelling, Faulkner explores themes of race, sex, class and religion in the American South. By focusing on characters that are misfits, outcasts, or are otherwise marginalized in their community, he portrays the clash of alienated individuals against a Puritanical, prejudiced rural society. Early reception of the novel was mixed, with some reviewers critical of Faulkner's style and subject matter. However, over time, the novel has come to be considered one of the most important literary works by Faulkner and one of the best English-language novels of the 20th century.

Collectible - MacMillan 1960 FIRST Large Print Edition. See Photos. Pages and Hinges are clean and tight. Green hardcover shows very little wear. Dust Jacket has edge and corner bump/wear - very good overall. NO names or inscriptions. Bio & Desc. John Knowles, who died in 2001, was a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy and Yale University, as well as a recipient of the William Faulkner Award and the Rosenthal Award of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. "A Separate Peace" still speaks to us nearly 60 years later, it is only when read at face value, a tale about rivalry, jealously, and the mixture of nobility and evil that lurks in the human heart. Gene comes back 15 years later to try to come to terms with the enormity of his betrayal, to try to forgive himself. How many of us have stood before our own trees, longing to forgive ourselves for hurts impulsively perpetrated in the past? Knowles holds up a mirror to our own visage, and in so doing, guarantees that a lesson from an otherwise obscure setting and a forgotten time will endure.

1985, hardcover facsimile edition (of a title first published in England in 1957), First Edition Library, CT. 253 pages. This attractive facsimile edition reprints the exact book that first appeared in 1957 with the great dust jacket art by Richard Chopping. James Bond is just making his way among spies of the British Secret Service. Filmed memorably, this is a great looking book, a compact hardcover edition.

McCullers, Carson. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. Facsimile of the First Edition. Shelton, The First Edition Library, 1967. Octavo. 356 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. The book is housed in its original slipcase. Close to new ! Absolutely Fine condition with an only mildly sunned dustjacket-spine. Includes even the publisher's advertising slip. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940) is the début novel by the American author Carson McCullers; she was 23 at the time of publication. It is about a deaf man named John Singer who does not speak, and the people he encounters in a 1930s mill town in the US state of Georgia. The book begins with a focus on the relationship between two close friends, John Singer and Spiros Antonapoulous. The two are described as deaf-mutes who have lived together for several years. Antonapoulous becomes mentally ill, misbehaves, and despite attempts at intervention from Singer, is eventually put into an insane asylum away from town. Now alone, Singer moves into a new room. The remainder of the narrative centers on the struggles of four of John Singer's acquaintances: Mick Kelly, a tomboyish girl who loves music and dreams of buying a piano; Jake Blount, an alcoholic labor agitator; Biff Brannon, the observant owner of a diner; and Dr. Benedict Mady Copeland, an idealistic black physician. (Wikipedia)

Carol Milford is a young, liberated woman from Saint Paul, Minnesota, who marries a small-town doctor named Will Kennicott. Persuaded to move to Gopher Prairie, her husband s home-town, Carol is horrified to find herself living in an ugly, back-water community. A satiric depiction of Carol s attempt to raise the inhabitants of Gopher Prairie to her own smug level, Main Street is one of Sinclair Lewis s most significant works.