The Reivers: A Reminiscence

New York: Random House, 1962. First Trade Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8x5x1. First trade edition. Lacks jacket. A few minor spots on front corner, edges and endpapers a bit foxed. 1962 Hard Cover. 305, [7] pp. 8vo. Red cloth, gilt titles. Author's final novel and his second Pulitzer Prize winner. Inspiration for the 1969 Steve McQueen film. "One of Faulkner's comic masterpieces, The Reivers is a picaresque that tells of three unlikely car thieves from rural Mississippi. Eleven-year-old Lucius Priest is persuaded by Boon Hogganbeck, one of his family's retainers, to steal his grandfather's car and make a trip to Memphis. The Priests' black coachman, Ned McCaslin, stows away, and the three of them are off on a heroic odyssey, for which they are all ill-equipped, that ends at Miss Reba's bordello in Memphis. From there a series of wild misadventures ensues—involving horse smuggling, trainmen, sheriffs' deputies, and jail.