8vo. Half-title. Original cloth-backed black and grey patterned boards, top edge stained blue (light darkening to edges); in unrestored dust jacket featuring an adaptation of Kathe Kollwitz's "Woman and Death" (some chipping and rubbing, spine panel faded, small drawings and notes in ink verso); cloth folding case.

FIRST EDITION OF FAULKNER'S FIRST GREAT NOVEL, in the first state dust jacket with Maurice Hindus's Humanity Uprooted priced $3.00 on rear panel. Set in fictional Yoknapatawpha County, The Sound and the Fury follows the Compson family as they struggle with the downfall of their family reputation. Though not immediately commercially successful, The Sound and the Fury became Faulkner's most popular work. Petersen A6.2a.