FAULKNER, William (1897-1962). The Sound and the Fury. New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1929.
Sale 1335 - Fine Literature from the Collection of Richard C. McKenzie
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FAULKNER, William (1897-1962). The Sound and the Fury. New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1929.
8vo. Original cloth-backed black and grey patterned boards, top edge stained blue (extremities a bit sunned and rubbed); in dust jacket featuring an adaptation of Kathe Kollwitz's "Woman and Death" (restoration with some recoloring and areas in facsimile); morocco-backed 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 and also his favorite because "its composition had caused him the greatest agony." Petersen A6.2a.
Fine Literature from the Collection of Richard C. McKenzie
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