STRIBLING, T. S. The Forge
STRIBLING, Thomas Sigismund. The Forge. London: William Heinemann. 1931. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher’s dark blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket with a central design by P. Youngman Carter. A very well-preserved copy, the cloth clean and sharp, the binding tight and square, the navy topstain vivid. Some light spots to the fore-edge with a small handful of singular spots to prelims, else fine. The dust jacket complete, priced at 8/6 net to the spine panel, the cream jacket generally a little toned, a trifle bumped at most corners and tips, but a rather wonderful copy overall. Uncommon.
The American author’s eleventh novel and the first in his Vaiden trilogy, of which he would become most famous for. The trilogy is a modernist epic charting three generations of one family from the Civil War to the mid-1920s. In his own life, Stribling was a bit of a cornerstone author in Southern literature, and numerous associations between the trilogy and William Faulkner’s works have been drawn; “In The Forge, The Store, and Unfinished Cathedral, Stribling introduced a subject matter, themes, plot elements, and character types which parallel and at the same time anticipate those that Faulkner, who owned copies of this trilogy, would treat in ‘Absalom, Absalom!’ and in the Snopes trilogy." (Martine, 76)
STRIBLING, Thomas Sigismund. The Forge. London: William Heinemann. 1931. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher’s dark blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket with a central design by P. Youngman Carter. A very well-preserved copy, the cloth clean and sharp, the binding tight and square, the navy topstain vivid. Some light spots to the fore-edge with a small handful of singular spots to prelims, else fine. The dust jacket complete, priced at 8/6 net to the spine panel, the cream jacket generally a little toned, a trifle bumped at most corners and tips, but a rather wonderful copy overall. Uncommon.
The American author’s eleventh novel and the first in his Vaiden trilogy, of which he would become most famous for. The trilogy is a modernist epic charting three generations of one family from the Civil War to the mid-1920s. In his own life, Stribling was a bit of a cornerstone author in Southern literature, and numerous associations between the trilogy and William Faulkner’s works have been drawn; “In The Forge, The Store, and Unfinished Cathedral, Stribling introduced a subject matter, themes, plot elements, and character types which parallel and at the same time anticipate those that Faulkner, who owned copies of this trilogy, would treat in ‘Absalom, Absalom!’ and in the Snopes trilogy." (Martine, 76)
STRIBLING, Thomas Sigismund. The Forge. London: William Heinemann. 1931. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher’s dark blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket with a central design by P. Youngman Carter. A very well-preserved copy, the cloth clean and sharp, the binding tight and square, the navy topstain vivid. Some light spots to the fore-edge with a small handful of singular spots to prelims, else fine. The dust jacket complete, priced at 8/6 net to the spine panel, the cream jacket generally a little toned, a trifle bumped at most corners and tips, but a rather wonderful copy overall. Uncommon.
The American author’s eleventh novel and the first in his Vaiden trilogy, of which he would become most famous for. The trilogy is a modernist epic charting three generations of one family from the Civil War to the mid-1920s. In his own life, Stribling was a bit of a cornerstone author in Southern literature, and numerous associations between the trilogy and William Faulkner’s works have been drawn; “In The Forge, The Store, and Unfinished Cathedral, Stribling introduced a subject matter, themes, plot elements, and character types which parallel and at the same time anticipate those that Faulkner, who owned copies of this trilogy, would treat in ‘Absalom, Absalom!’ and in the Snopes trilogy." (Martine, 76)