Faulkner's Sound and Fury 1st Edition in 2nd Issue
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Author: Faulkner, William
Title: The Sound and the Fury
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith
Date Published: [1929]
Description:
Author: Faulkner, William
Title: The Sound and the Fury
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith
Date Published: [1929]
Description:
[4], 401 pp. (8vo) original black, white, and gray patterned paper over boards with white cloth spine, top edge stained blue-gray, patterned endpapers, pictorial dust jacket. Custom cloth case. First Edition, second issue jacket.
Second issue jacket, no printed price on the front flap and the price for Maurice Hindus' Humanity Uprooted in the back panel advertisement is $3.50. Only 1789 copies were issued and according to the publisher, sales records show that about 1500 copies had been sold by the time Sanctuary was published in February 1931. "Faulkner often called this his favorite work because its composition had caused him the greatest agony" - Petersen A6b; Massey 322.
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Old tape repairs to the edges of the jacket on the reverse, some small chipping; bookplate, repairs to hinges; very good.
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Faulkner's Sound and Fury 1st Edition in 2nd Issue
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