Lot 67: FAULKNER, WILLIAM. 1897-1962. The Sound and the Fury. New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1929.

FAULKNER, WILLIAM. 1897-1962.
The Sound and the Fury. New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1929. Publisher's quarter white cloth and patterned boards; pictorial dust jacket, top edge stained blue. Custom gilt-titled black morocco box. Spine sunned, wear and minor chipping to edges of jacket, board edges worn. FINE FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of Faulkner's first truly great novel and the most influential American usage of stream-of-consciousness narration. First state dust jacket with Humanity Uprooted priced $3.00 on the back panel (later issues have this title priced at $3.50). Massey 322; Petersen A6b.