Jun 20, 2013 - Sale 2319

Sale 2319 - Lot 108

Price Realized: $ 24,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 20,000 - $ 25,000
FAULKNER, WILLIAM. The Sound and the Fury. 8vo, original cloth-backed patterned boards, mild shelf wear along spine foot and lower board extremities, top edges stained blue-grey; dust jacket, spine panel slightly faded, small 5mm closed tear at bottom of front panel, overall light rubbing; preserved in custom drop-back case. New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1929

Additional Details

first edition in entirely unrestored 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 lovely copy of Faulkner's modernist masterpiece and most popular work. Petersen A6b.