Nov 21, 2013 - Sale 2332

Sale 2332 - Lot 109

Price Realized: $ 10,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 15,000 - $ 20,000
FAULKNER, WIILIAM. The Sound and the Fury. 8vo, original cloth-backed patterned boards, light shelf-wear along bottom board edges; dust jacket, expert restoration to portions of spine panel and folds, but spine panel uncommonly bright and unfaded; small split at lower front hinge, bookplate to front pastedown, few pages at end unopened. New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1929

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first edition in first issue dust jacket with Maurice Hindus's Humanity Uprooted priced at $3.00 on rear panel. Faulkner's fourth novel and the first of his Yoknapatawpha novels. A very desirable copy of Faulkner's modernist masterpiece and most popular work. Petersen A6b.