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

The Library of David Lloyd, Part IFAULKNER, WILLIAM. 1897-1962.
The Sound and the Fury. New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1929. 8vo. Publisher's cloth-backed patterned paper boards, blue topstain, pictorial dust jacket. Minor soiling and rubbing to covers and spine cloth, jacket spine sunned, light chipping and creases to spine ends and edges, a few small tears to edges of both front and back panels. FIRST EDITION of Faulkner's first truly great novel and the most influential American usage of stream-of-consciousness narration. Second state dust jacket with no printed price, and Humanity Uprooted priced at $3.50 on back panel. Peterson A6b.