Mirrors of Chartres Street.

FAULKNER, William; William Van O'Connor; Mary Demopoulos.

$300.00

Item Number: 147557

Minneapolis, MN: Faulkner Studies, 1953.

First limited edition of this collection of stories and sketches from the New Orleans ‘Times-Picayune.’ Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, cover photograph by Clell Mize. Introduction by William Van O’Connor and illustrated by Mary Demopoulos. One of one thousand numbered copies with this being number 272. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.

One of the most celebrated writers in American literature, William Faulkner became widely know upon his acceptance of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature, for which he became the only Mississippi-born Nobel winner. Awarded for "his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel", Faulkner donated part of his Nobel money "to establish a fund to support and encourage new fiction writers", eventually resulting in the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.