Pylon.

FAULKNER, William.

Item Number: 147408

New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Hass, Inc, 1935.

First edition of Faulkner’s explosive novel about a group of Southern barnstormers. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, top stained black. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Rubbing to the front panel, with light rubbing and bumping to the spine, and small damp stain on the page of contents. Toning to the dust jacket with bumping and rubbing to the extremities.

A novel at once sympathetic and explosive, Faulkner's Pylon is inhabited by characters still strange to the world today - a reckless and indomitable group of barnstormers performing in an unconventional flying circus. Set in a fictionalized version of New Orleans, the novel became the basis for the sensational 1957 film 'The Tarnished Angels' starring Rock Hudson, Robert Slack, and Dorothy Malone.