William Faulkner. First Trade Edition. Dust Jacket: Very Good+ Jacket is price-clipped. First state, in the first issue dust jacket. The first issue dust jacket has E. McKnight Kauffer misspelled as M. McKnight Kauffer., $3.00 price is missing though. There is a small tear on upper backside of jacket. Hardcover: Very Good+ NY: Random House, 1951. No writing or markings in the book, 286 pp. Has the spelling Chocktaw rather than Choctaw on page 21. Considered a scarce item in dust jacket. No additional printings listed on copyright page. No first edition statement, in this case as called for, indicating the true first printing. Book designed by Meyer Wagman.
The true first edition was a signed, numbered edition limited to 750 copies.
This was the sequel to his earlier novel Sanctuary. It follows all the characters in his fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi.
This was Faulkner's first book after winning the Nobel Prize. "I Decline to accept the end of man. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice but he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance". W.F. - Nobel Speech.
