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FAULKNER, William. Light in August. New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1932. 8 o . Original coarse-grained grey cloth, stamped in orange on the front cover and in blue and orange on the spine [first binding] (endpapers lightly offset); pictorial dust jacket (very slight wear to ends of spine panel and extremities, otherwise very fine); with the very rare plain glassine outer wrapper (spine panel of glassine perished, some other losses); quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance : Myrtle Ramey (presentation inscription). FIRST EDITION, FIRST BINDING. A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY FAULKNER TO HIS CHILDHOOD FRIEND MYRTLE RAMEY on the front free endpaper: "For Myrtle Ramey, Oxford, Miss. 30 May 1934 William Faulkner." Faulkner met Myrtle Ramey in 1906 when he skipped a year in school and joined the third grade. The two became lifelong friends, spending hours discussing favorite authors and titles. When he began to publish, Faulkner counted her among the few friends and family to whom he inscribed books. In 1924 she received a copy of The Marble Faun , along with an autograph sheaf of poems (a gesture which biographer Frederick Karl suggests involved some level of flirtation, see William Faulkner , 1989, p.174). Ramey married in 1926, but Faulkner insisted on using her maiden name when he inscribed Soldier's Pay to her that year. A copy of Pylon inscribed to Myrtle Ramey sold in the Rechler sale in 2002. Massey 103; Peterson A13.1a.