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FAULKNER, William (1897–1962). As I Lay Dying. New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1930. 8vo. Original beige cloth stamped in dark brown, brown top edge; original unclipped dust jacket (spine panel toned, 1 ¾” tear with void to heel and chips to head, paper reinforcement to ends on verso, few faint horizontal stains to front panel). FIRST EDITION, second issue with stamping on front and spine complete and undamaged, “I” on p. 11 is properly aligned. One of only 2522 copies. “If T.S. Eliot was right in saying that American fiction took its first step forward since Henry James in The Great Gatsby, then one should be free to say that As I Lay Dying, which makes Fitzgerald’s technique seem wooden and creaky, was a tremendous stride forward, making possible levels of awareness, a sense of variety, and a saturation of reality that would have delighted Henry James” (O’Connor, The Tangled Fire of William Faulkner p. 45). Petersen A7e.