Faulkner, William

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 USD

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Description

Faulkner, William
Sanctuary. New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1931
Paper, Ink, Cloth

8vo (185 x 122 mm). Publisher's half cloth and mauve boards with just a trace of shelfwear along bottom edge; original printed dust-jacket; a very fine copy in a bright, unfaded and unrubbed jacket, with the white on the rear and spine panel of jacket unusually so, housed in a modern cloth case.

Literature

Connolly 69; Massey 249; Peterson A8.2

Catalogue Note

first edition, first binding of Faulkner's biggest commercial success

Popeye and the degradation of Temple Drake provided Faulkner with his first real commercial and critical breakthrough. "Sanctuary was written in haste when Faulkner was tired of never selling; like the stories in These Thirteen, it is Faulkner for the non-Faulknerites, determined to shock...." (Connolly)