LOT #42011 |
Sold on Jul 25, 2024 for: Not Sold
William Faulkner. The Sound and the Fury. New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, [1929]....
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Description
In the rare dust jacket
William Faulkner. The Sound and the Fury. New York:
Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, [1929].8vo. Publisher's black, white, and gray paper-covered boards, white cloth spine stamped in black, top edges stained blue-gray, endpapers matching cover design. Original illustrated dust jacket featuring an adaptation of the Käthe Kollwitz theme, "Woman and Death." Custom quarter morocco folding case.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Later state dust jacket with Maurice Hindus's Humanity Uprooted priced $3.50 on rear panel.
"Faulkner often called this his favorite work because its composition had caused him the greatest agony" (Peterson).
Condition: Minor edgewear to cloth, corners bumped, spine ends pushed. Small bookseller's label to rear pastedown (Raggy Books, Salisbury and Oyster Bay, NY). Dust jacket unclipped (no price listed as issued), restorations along edges and folds, paper loss at head of spine filled-in, color corrections, spine sunned, some dampstaining.
References: Petersen A6b.
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2024 July 25 Historical Platinum Signature® Auction #6294 (go to Auction Home page)
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