Faulkner, William

Soldiers' Pay.  New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926

8vo (7 1/2 x 5 1/4 in.; 190 x 133 mm).  Publisher's blue cloth, spine and upper cover lettered in yellow, floral endpapers.  Original pictorial dust-jacket; spine faded, spine ends and edges chipped, price clipped from upper flap, remains of early cellotape repairs on verso of jacket, showing through at lower margin of upper cover and top edge of lower cover.

Michael Sadleir (bookplate on front pastedown)

Massey 304; Peterson A2.1

Condition as described in catalogue entry.
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First edition of Faulkner's first novel, in the fragile pictorial dust-jacket.  The Michael Sadleir copy.

This novel, originally titled Mayday, was published by Boni and Liveright at the suggestion of Sherwood Anderson.  The book concerns the immediate post-World War I years in America.  Its fictional small town, Charleston, bears a resemblance to Jefferson, county seat of Yoknapatawpha County.

Rare in the original dust-jacket.