First edition book: Doctor Martino and Other Stories by William Faulkner. First edition, first printing. NY: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1934. Hardcover bound in finely woven blue cloth stamped brightly in gold on the front boards and spine, with dust jacket (with its original price of "$2.50" on the front flap and the two-columned list of important books from the publisher on the rear panel), 5.25 x 7.75, 371 pages. Book condition: VG+/VG, with an ownership bookplate affixed to the front pastedown and a bit of edgewear and soiling to the jacket. An attractive copy of Faulkner's second collection of short fiction, with its attractive dust jacket by Arthur Hawkins.
