THE SOUND AND THE FURY
New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1929. First Edition. Item #7160
First Printing, one of 1,789 copies (per Daniel). Octavo (19.75cm); patterned paper-covered boards and white cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in black on spine; dark blue-gray topstain; patterned endpapers; dustjacket; [vi],401,[1]pp. Spine ends gently nudged, hint of sunning to heel, and upper board edges, with some trivial wear to lower board edges; contents fresh, with topstain bold and unfaded; Near Fine. In the second state dustjacket, with Maurice Hindus's Humanity Uprooted advertised at $3.50 on rear panel; dustjacket measures half a centimeter taller than the book; modest wear to extremities, some tiny tears and shallow losses to spine ends and corners, gentle sunning to spine, with some scattered foxing and dust-soil, and two tape mends at crown on verso; unlike most surviving examples, the red panel on the spine remains bright, virtually unfaded, and without restoration; a Very Good+ example. Housed in a custom clamshell case.
Faulkner's fourth novel, set in Jefferson, Mississippi during the first third of the 20th century, charting "the decay of a Southern family of gentle blood and of its members who become drunkards, suicides, idiots, and pathological perverts" (Coan, p.58). According to Peter Howard's catalog of the Petersen Collection, only 300 copies at most of the jacket bear the corrected figure on the rear panel, citing this state of the jacket being discovered only in the 1980s. Petersen A6b; Brodsky & Hamblin 130.
Price: $17,500.00