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

The Library of David Lloyd, Part IFAULKNER, WILLIAM. 1897-1962.
As I Lay Dying. New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, (1930). 8vo. Publisher's tan cloth, lettered in brown, brown topstain, publisher's printed dust jacket. Minor bumps to spine ends, fingermarks on flyleaves and edges, slight chipping to corners of jacket, light soiling to jacket, especially to spine. 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.