May 18, 2016 - Sale 2416

Sale 2416 - Lot 169

Price Realized: $ 2,860
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
FAULKNER, WILLIAM. Sanctuary. 8vo, publisher's 1/4 red-stamped grey cloth over magenta boards, patterned endpapers, top edges with small gouge affecting about 30 pages, dust jacket, unclipped, shallow chips to spine panel tips and fold corners, light fading to spine panel; contents clean and unmarked; cloth clamshell box (title label misspelled). New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, (1931)

Additional Details

first edition, first issue. Faulkner's sixth novel, and his first to be adapted into a film (retitled The Story of Temple Drake), though Faulkner himself did not have a hand in any aspect of the production. Fargnoli and Golay, p. 201; Peterson A8b; Connolly, The Modern Movement 69.