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FAULKNER, WILLIAM. 1897-1962.
As I Lay Dying. New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, (1930).

5 December 2019, 10:00 EST
New York

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FAULKNER, WILLIAM. 1897-1962.

As I Lay Dying. New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, (1930). 8vo. Publisher's tan cloth, lettered in brown, brown topstain, original printed dust-jacket, some soiling to jacket, joints repaired with Japanese paper to verso.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with dropped initial "I" on p 11. "I set out deliberately to write a tour-de-force. Before I ever put pen to paper and set down the first word I knew what the last word would be and almost where the last period would fall" ("Introduction to The Sound and the Fury," The Southern Review 8, 1972). One of the most important novels of the 20th century. Petersen A7a.

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