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FAULKNER, WILLIAM. 1897-1962.
Light in August. [New York]: Harrison Smith & Robert Hass, 1932.

5 December 2019, 10:00 EST
New York

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FAULKNER, WILLIAM. 1897-1962.

Light in August. [New York]: Harrison Smith & Robert Hass, 1932. 8vo. Publisher's tan cloth, upper cover lettered in orange, and spine in blue, orange topstain, original dust jacket by Arthur Hawkins; without glassine, tape ghost to endpapers, minor wear to jacket corners.
Provenance: John Miller Brabson (bookplate).

"Memory believes before knowing remembers."

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with "Jefferson" for "Mottstown" on p 340, line 1. A landmark of American fiction, "Light in August is a powerful novel, a book which secures Mr. Faulkner's place in the very front rank of American writers" (Donald J. Adams, The New York Times Book Review, October 9, 1932). A bright copy, spine unfaded. Petersen A13a.

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