Sale 2530 - Fine Books & Manuscripts, February 20, 2020

232 c   FAULKNER, WILLIAM. The Sound and the Fury. 8vo, original cloth-backed patterned boards, top 10mm of spine toned conforming to jacket chip; dust jacket, front and spine panel detached along fold, short closed tears, soiling, spine panel faded and with aforementioned chip at head slightly extending into front panel effecting letters; shaken with rear joint cracked. NewYork: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1929 [3,000/4,000] first edition in unrestored first state dust jacket with Maurice Hindus’s Humanity Uprooted priced at $3.00 on rear panel. Faulkner’s fourth novel and the first of hisYoknapatawpha novels. Petersen A6b. 233 c   FAULKNER, WILLIAM. The Unvanquished. 8vo, publisher’s blue/grey cloth, scattered soiling, spine and front cover sunned; lacking dust jacket; endpapers toned. first trade edition , with presentation inscription mounted to front pastedown:“To Sallie [Falkner] Burns, / fromWilliam.” Peterson A18a. NewYork: Random House, (1938) [300/400] 232