April 12, 2024
Lie Down in Darkness William Styron Signed First Edition Association Copy VG/VG
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Styron, William. Lie Down in Darkness . Indianapolis & New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1951. 8vo., original brown cloth boards. 400 pp. First edition, signed inscribed and dated, a month before the book's September 1951 publication, to the Pulitzer Prize-Winning poet Louis Simpson and his then-wife Jeanne Rogers. At the time, Simpson was working as an junior editor with Bobbs-Merrill, and is quoted in William Styron: A Life (1998) as writing Styron with the following sentiments: "outside of Faulkner, and probably with Faulkner too, it is, in my opinion, the finest novel in English written in a long long time. An I, Sir, am a publisher's reader, whose innermost core is suspicion and dislike." Stryon's tale of the existential struggles and eventual suicide of a young woman in Virginia was greeted with universal critical acclaim and awarded Prix De Rome by the American Academy. The reception launched Styron's literary career, which includes such notable works as Sophie's Choice , and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Confessions of Nat Turner. Simpson's marriage to Rogers ended in 1953 and a decade later he would win the Pulitzer Prize for his collection of poems, The End of the Open Road. Here Styron has signed as "Bill" which was his custom when inscribing books to friends. Very good in like dust jacket, inch long splits along the
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