First edition book: Go Down, Moses and Other Stories by William Faulkner. First edition, first printing. NY: Random House, 1942. Hardcover bound in black cloth, stamped in gold and red, with price-clipped dust jacket, 5.75 x 8.25, 383 pages. Book condition: VG/G+, with chipping and a few tears to edges of the price-clipped jacket, and a crease to the rear panel. This 1942 collection of related pieces of Faulkner's short fiction is highlighted by his well-known novelette 'The Bear.'
