An exhibition of William Faulkner’s first editions and other items related to the writing, publication, and promotion of these works, including handwritten and typed manuscripts, correspondence, film and theatre adaptations, and foreign editions.

• Marionettes (1921)
• The Marble Faun (1924)
• Soldiers’ Pay (1926)
• Mosquitoes (1927)
• Sartoris (1929)
• The Sound and the Fury (1929)
• As I Lay Dying (1930)
• Light in August (1932)
• Sanctuary (1931)
• Idyll in the Desert (1931)
• Miss Zilphia Gant (1932)
• These 13 (1931)
• This Earth (1932)
• A Green Bough (1933)
• Doctor Martino and Other Stories (1934)
• Pylon (1935)
• Absalom, Absalom! (1936)
• The Unvanquished (1938)
• The Wild Palms (1939)
• The Hamlet (1940)
• Go Down, Moses, and Other Stories (1942)
• The Portable Faulkner (1946)
• Intruder in the Dust (1948)
• Knight’s Gambit (1949)
• Notes on a Horse Thief (1950)
• Requiem for a Nun (1951)
• A Fable (1954)
• The Town (1957)
• The Mansion (1959)
• The Reivers, a Reminiscence (1962)

A selection of photographs from the Cofield Collection and the Martin J. Dain Collection were also displayed as part of the physical exhibit.

Cofield Collection

• William Faulkner's home, Rowan Oak. Oxford, Mississippi. cofield_b8_f04_001

(Left to right:)

• William Faulkner. 1962. cofield_b5_f32_001
• William Faulkner. 1930. cofield_b5_f35_001
• William Faulkner. 1942. cofield_b5_f43_001
• William Faulkner. 1960. cofield_b6_f1_001
• William Faulkner in riding gear. 1961. cofield_b5_f19_001
• William Faulkner. 1962. cofield_b5_f29_001

Martin J. Dain Collection

(Left to right:)

• Bookshelf at Rowan Oak, William Faulkner's home. 1961. mum00702_b1_f61_001
• William Faulkner and Victoria Fielden at Rowan Oak. 1962. mum00702_b1_f23_009
• William Faulkner entering the barn at Rowan Oak. 1962. mum00702_b1_f23_008
• William Faulkner leading his horse at Rowan Oak. 1962. mum00702_b1_f23_011
• William Faulkner and his horse at Rowan Oak. 1962. mum00702_b1_f23_009

(Left to right:)

• Oxford square, looking toward the Lafayette County courthouse. 1962. mum00702_b1_f28_005
• Charlie Wardlaw resting beneath the shade of an oak tree on the Lafayette County courthouse lawn. 1962. mum00702_b1_f2_002
• Livestock auction outside of Oxford, Mississippi. 1961. mum00702_b1_f19_001
• Card game at hunting camp. 1962. mum00702_b1_f46_004
• Mack Wardlaw blowing his horn, signaling the beginning of the deer hunt. 1962. mum00702_b1_f47_006
• After a successful deer hunt. 1962. mum00702_b1_f47_007

(Left to right:)

• Andrew Price, William Faulkner's general helper and gardener, in front of his house on the grounds of Rowan Oak. 1962. mum00702_b1_f13_001
• Preparing William Faulkner's grave. St. Peter's cemetery, Oxford. 1962. mum00702_b1_f39_003
• The Jones-Miller place, an antebellum house southwest of Oxford, then inhabited by Mrs. Booker and her family. 1962. mum00702_b1_f59_012