FAULKNER, William (1897-1962). The Sound and the Fury. New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1929.
8vo. Original cloth-backed black and grey patterned boards, top edge stained blue; dust jacket featuring an adaptation of Kathe Kollwitz's "Woman and Death" (light restoration near panel edges with some recoloring and areas in facsimile); morocco-backed folding case.
FIRST EDITION OF FAULKNER'S FIRST GREAT NOVEL, IN THE FIRST STATE DUST JACKET with Maurice Hindus's Humanity Uprooted priced at $3.00 on rear panel. Set in fictional Yoknapatawpha County, The Sound and the Fury follows the Compson family as they struggle with the downfall of their family's reputation. Though not immediately commercially successful, The Sound and the Fury became Faulkner's most popular work and also his favorite because "its composition had caused him the greatest agony." Petersen A6.2a.
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