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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