FAULKNER, WILLIAM. The Sound and the Fury. 8vo, publisher's cloth-backed black and grey patterned boards, top edge stained blue, toning to board extremities, scattered minor surface abrasions, corners rubbed with some exposure; ownership inscription to front pastedown and discreet booklabel to rear, offsetting to pp. 370-71 from laid in sheet; custom cloth folding box with leather spine label. first edition. From the Estate of Kenneth Silverman, a Pulitzer-winning biographer. Mr. Silverman was a specialist in Colonial American literature and the co-director of the program in American civilization at New York University. Petersen A6b. New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1929