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Faulkner, William Unique typewritten book entitled Vision in Spring, signed on the front cover ("William Faulkner"), inscribed on recto of lower free endpaper, title-page, contents, and 87 numbered pages, (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.; 216 x 140 mm), [Oxford, Mississippi,] 1921; occasional underlining and other marks in pencil, some notes in pencil in an unidentified hand erased, lower edges of a few leaves unevenly cut. Bound by the author (1926): spine covered in cream paper, boards in marbled paper, calligraphic label by the author on upper cover; some rubbing and chipping to spine and extremities, some darkening from glue on upper cover label, small portion of upper right corner of front free endpaper torn away. Laid in between pages 52–53: Autograph manuscript comprising 3 poems ("A Song," "Dawn," and "An Orchid") in Faulkner's calligraphic hand and a pen-and-ink drawing by him, bifolium (5 1/2 x 3 3/4 in.; 140 x 95 mm, sewing holes at central fold), [Toronto, ca. July–December 1918]; some browning, small chip at right edge of upper leaf — 2 snapshot portraits of William Faulkner, one of the young man in his RAF uniform, the other of the middle-aged author in tweed jacket and tie, smoking a pipe, (the larger photo: 3 3/4 x 2 3/4 in.; 95 x 70 mm) [Oxford, Mississippi, nd] — a newspaper clipping from the 5 February 1940 edition of the Memphis Commercial Appeal, "Rites Held for Former Slave in Novelist Faulkner's Home," (7 1/2 x 4 in.; 190 x 102 mm); lightly browned.