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FAULKNER, William (1897–1962). The Sound and the Fury. New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, [1929]. 8vo. [4], 401pp. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Publisher’s white cloth backstrip over patterned black, white, and gray paper covered boards, spine lettered in black, top edge stained black (worn), original second issue dust jacket with no printed price on front flap and the price for Maurice Hindus’ Humanity Uprooted on the lower jacket panel advertises a $3.50 price tag (chipping along upper edge with few closed tears to front jacket cover, spine panel sunned, boards rubbed and toned, spine lightly worn at ends, front inner hinge cracked, old adhesive strip to rear free endpaper; otherwise a tight and clean copy). Peterson A6b. Only 1,789 copies were issued. “Faulkner often called this his favorite work because its composition had caused him the greatest agony”. (Peterson)