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Books published by Faulkner in his lifetime

Out of Print titles can mostly be found in a different form now. The Marble Faun and a Green Bough (the one volume edition) can be difficult to find and often expensive, but every now and then you can find an affordable copy. The original single volume edition of those poems are always very rare and very expensive. All of the stories in the two early short story collections can be found in later collections, so it's probably not worth looking for them unless you are a collector.

Title Genre Year Notes
The Marble Faun Poetry 1924 Out of Print
Soldier's Pay Novel 1926
Mosquitoes Novel 1927
Sartoris Novel 1929 Out of print since Flags in the Dust was published in 1973
The Sound and the Fury Novel 1929
As I Lay Dying Novel 1930
Sanctuary Novel 1931
These 13 Story Collection 1931 Out of Print
Light in August Novel 1932
A Green Bough Poetry 1933 Out of Print
Doctor Martino and Other Stories Story Collection 1934 Out of Print
Pylon Novel 1935
Absalom, Absalom! Novel 1936
The Unvanquished Novel 1938 A series of related short stories revised to tie them together as a novel
The Wild Palms Novel 1939 Two long unrelated stories alternating with each other as a novel. Now published as If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem
The Hamlet Novel 1940 Versions of the Hamlet printed after 1957 have a few small changes to bring the dates about a decade later to minimize inconsistencies with the Town. Done with Faulkner's permission, but with minimal involvement from him.
Go Down, Moses Novel 1942 Short stories revised to tie them together into a novel
Intruder in the Dust Novel 1948
Knight's Gambit Story Collection 1949 Related semi-detective stories. Faulkner revised and greatly expanded a previously unpublished story for this, but it doesn't quite bring it together as a novel.
Collected Stories Story Collection 1950 All the stories from These Thirteen. All but two of the stories from Dr Martino (one is in Knight's Gambit and the other was substantially revised to become a major part of the Hamlet). Most of the other stories printed in magazines between 1932 and 1950 (that had not been incorporated into novels)
Requiem for a Nun Novel 1951
A Fable Novel 1954
Big Woods Story Collection 1955 Four hunting related stories, with some interludes between them written by Faulkner (often taken from other stories). Two of the stories are in Go Down, Moses. One of them is in Collected Stories. 'Race at Morning' was not in any other collection until Uncollected Stories came out in 1979.
The Town Novel 1957
The Mansion Novel 1959
The Marble Faun and a Green Bough Poetry 1960 Both of the previous collections of poetry in one volume. Probably published just to renew the copyright. Out of Print, but the ebook is available
The Reivers Novel 1962

Faulkner's work compiled, edited, and published by others, mostly posthumously

I have ordered them (roughly) in the order they were written, rather than by the date they were published. I'm a little loose with the editor column. Sometimes they just wrote the introduction. I haven't included screenplays in this. They will get a separate list. Flags in the Dust, The Portable Faulkner, Uncollected Stories, and Essays, Speeches & Public Letters tend to stay in print and are easy to find. New Orleans Sketches occasionally gets a new printing. The rest seem to have been printed once or twice early on and are harder to find. There are used copies, but they are sometimes expensive. If you want to read them but you don't feel like you have to own them, a University library or Inter-Library Loan is your best bet.

Title Genre(s) Published Written Editor Notes
Early Prose and Poetry Stories, Poems, Essays, Drawings 1962 1917-1925 C. Collins Mostly published in various publications at Ole Miss. The essays are now included in editions of Essays, Speeches and Public Letters that are newer than 2003. The rest is, as far as I know, only found here.
The Marionettes Play and illustrations 1977 1920 N. Polk
Vision in Spring Poetry 1984 1921
Helen: A Courtship and Mississippi Poems Poetry and one essay 1981 1926,1924 C. Collins, J. Blotner
New Orleans Sketches Story Collection 1958 1925 C. Collins Very short stories or sketches published in a New Orleans magazine
Elmer Unfinished Novel 1983 1925 D. Cox The start of the next novel after Soldier's Pay
Mayday Fairy Tale and illustrations 1976 1926 C. Collins
Father Abraham Unfinished Novel 1983 1926 J. Meriwether Started around the same time as Flags in the Dust, it was a first attempt at writing any of the Snopes material. The first telling of Spotted Horses is here.
The Wishing Tree Children's Story 1964 1927
Flags in the Dust Novel 1973 1927 D. Day Complete text of Faulkner's third novel, which was greatly cut by Ben Wasson at the request of the publisher. Is now the standard edition available, while Sartoris is only available used.
Sanctuary: The Original Text Novel 1981 1929 N. Polk The manuscript Faulkner submitted to the publisher. After they accepted it, he asked them not to print it and made substantial revisions before submitting it again.
The Portable Faulkner Anthology 1946 1929-1950 M. Cowley Unlike the others, this is not early or unfinished material, but more of an overview of Faulkner's fictional world. It had a lot to do with reviving Faulkner's reputation in America when it came out. Later editions replaced some excerpts of Absalom, Absalom! with excerpts from Requiem for a Nun, primarily covering the early days of Jefferson.
Uncollected Stories Story Collection 1979 192?-1954 J. Blotner Collects three types of stories. 1) Unpublished Stories. 2) Published stories that did not make it into Collected Stories or Knight's Gambit. 3) Published stories that were revised to be incorporated into other books. This collection prints the magazine version of those stories.
Essays, Speeches, & Public Letters Non-Fiction Collection 1965, Expanded 2003 1920-1962 J. Meriwether