FAULKNER, William (1897-1962). The Sound and the Fury. New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1929. 8° (191 x 134mm). Original black and grey patterned boards backed in white cloth, top edge blue, fore-edge uncut, pictorial dust-jacket, modern black cloth chemise and slipcase (head- and tail of spine lightly browned, joints cracked, dust-jacket with small repairs, extremities lightly rubbed and soiled).

FAULKNER, William (1897-1962). The Sound and the Fury. New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1929. 8° (191 x 134mm). Original black and grey patterned boards backed in white cloth, top edge blue, fore-edge uncut, pictorial dust-jacket, modern black cloth chemise and slipcase (head- and tail of spine lightly browned, joints cracked, dust-jacket with small repairs, extremities lightly rubbed and soiled).

FIRST EDITION OF FAULKNER'S FIRST GREAT NOVEL in the earliest dust- jacket with Maurice Hindus's Humanity Uprooted priced $3.00 on rear panel. The Sound and the Fury is set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County and centers on the Compson family, former Southern aristocrats who are struggling with the dissolution of their family and its reputation. Massey 322; Petersen A6b.