Faulkner, WilliamThe Sound and the Fury. New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, [1929] 8vo. Original black and white boards with white cloth spine; some fading to head and foot of spine, and rubbing along bottom edge. No price on dust jacket and $3.00 price on rear panel for "Humanity Uprooted"; unrestored dust-jacket with usual fading to spine, two small chips to top of back panel and one to top of front panel, small bit of loss to head of spine, spine with visible crease. First edition, first printing of Faulkner's pioneering work of American modernism. The Sound and the Fury was Faulkner's fourth novel and employed a stream-of-consciousness technique and multiple narrators. The flap copy says it "suggests Joyce in its technique and the Russians, – perhaps Dostoyevsky – in its theme," but in retrospect the work is purest Faulkner, with multiple narrators and cascading layers of history, telling the story of the fall of a grand Southern family through the generations. REFERENCESPeterson A6b

The Sound and the Fury, first edition

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a>, first issue of Light in August by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=William+Faulkner&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">William Faulkner</a>.<ul><li>William Faulkner (American).</li><li>New York: Harrison Smith &amp; Robert Haas, 1932.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>First issue, with 'Jefferson' for 'Mottstown' on page 340, line 1.</li><li>Bound in the publisher's tan cloth, titles to upper board in orange and to spine in blue, orange top stain, with the art deco dust-jacket.</li></ul> An exceptional copy of a novel that contrasts stark tragedy with hopeful perseverance in the face of mortality; featuring some of Faulkner's most memorable characters: guileless, dauntless Lena Grove, in search of the father of her unborn child; Reverend Gail Hightower, a lonely outcast haunted by visions of Confederate glory; as well as Joe Christmas, a desperate, enigmatic drifter consumed by his mixed ancestry.

Light in August First Edition

A first edition, second issue copy of Faulkner's novel, with the original dust jacket.<ul><li>William Faulkner (American).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Jonathan Cape: Harrison Smith,&nbsp;1930.</li><li>254 pages.</li><li>Bound in original tan cloth with brown lettering, red top stain, in original unclipped ($2.50) tan dust jacket.&nbsp;</li></ul> One of the indisputably great novels of the twentieth century, As I Lay Dying is a story of family horror and human tragedy. Faulkner claimed to have written it in just six weeks, without any real effort to speak of: "It just came all of a piece with no work on my part. I thought of all the natural catastrophes that could happen to a family and let them all happen." It was easy, he said, "real easy."

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