(New York: Random House, 1939).

FIRST EDITION. "Contains the most spectacular situations created by William Faulkner. He achieved a straightforward and smashing dramatic story in the best manner of his Sanctuary and As I Lay Dying."
The title for this novel was chosen by the publishers, Random House, over the objections of Faulkner's choice of a title. Subsequent editions have since been printed under the title "If I Forget Thee Jerusalem". The book consists of two different stories, told in non-linear fashion in alternating chapters, which contain both parallels and contrasts. One story, 'Wild Palms', starts in New Orleans in 1937 whereas the second, 'Old Man', starts on a prison farm in Mississippi in 1927.
WILD PALMS is also one of only five of Faulkner's novels not set in fictional Yoknapatawpha County. Item #33378

First edition, first printing. 8vo, publisher’s original beige cloth lettered in gilt, in the green and yellow dustjacket. 339 pp. A near fine copy, the spine mellowed somewhat by age, the dustjacket with some wear, mostly at the extremities and tips.