Scarce signed book: These 13: Stories by William Faulkner. Limited first edition, numbered 98/299. NY: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1931. Clothbound hardcover with custom clamshell case made by the Dragonfly Bindery/Studio, 6.5 x 9.5, 358 pages. Signed neatly on the colophon in black ink by Faulkner. Autographic condition: fine. Book condition: VG/None, with toned extremities and a mothball scent. These 13 is a collection of short stories that Faulkner dedicated to his first daughter, Alabama, who died nine days after her birth on January 11, 1931, and to his wife Estelle.
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