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University of Texas Press, Austin [Published date: 1966]. Hardcover, [1]-80 pp including illustrations, facsimile ; 25 cm. First University of Texas Press edition (facsimile of the second issue published in New Orleans by The Pelican Bookshop Press, 1927).
In very good condition / acceptable dust jacket. Green illustrated cloth boards with black lettering on spine. Light shelfwear to edges of covers. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Jacket has several small chips and tears along edges and spine and light creasing to edges; light to moderate overall scuffing, aging and soiling. Price-clipped; now protected in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. NOT Ex-Library. Illustrated throughout with caricatures and portraits by Spratling, with Faulkner's captions and foreword. Originally published in New Orleans in 1926/1927 in a limited edition of 400 copies, this satirical gallery of contemporary New Orleans figures features artists, writers, and journalists of the French Quarter, including Sherwood Anderson, Carl Sandburg, John Dos Passos, Anita Loos, Horace Liveright, Oliver La Farge, and others. This 1966 University of Texas Press edition reprints the work in facsimile, with additional contextual essays and material. Contents include: Chronicle of a Friendship by William Spratling; Sherwood Anderson and Other Famous Creoles by William Spratling and William Faulkner; William Spratling's Mexican World by Robert David Duncan. [From Publisher's Foreword] Sherwood Anderson and Other Famous Creoles was published privately in New Orleans in 1926. Last year, with the permission of William Spratling, the copyright holder, it was published in the Texas Quarterly. Now, with the permission of Mr. Spratling and the Quarterly, it appears in book form. The original book is presented in facsimile except for the use of a larger page size. Page proofs of Mr. Spratling's article on Faulkner ("Chronicle of a Friendship") were in his hands at the time of his tragic death in an automobile accident August 6, 1967. It is known that he expected to make several minor revisions, but these unfortunately had not been made and the article must stand as it first appeared in the Texas Quarterly.