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(1928). Out of this frustration came The Sound and the Fury : “I continued to shop [ Sartoris ] about for three years with a stubborn and fading hope, perhaps to justify the time which I had spent writing it. This hope died slowly, though it didn’t hurt at all. One day I seemed to shut a door between me and all publishers’ addresses and book lists. I said to myself, Now I can write. Now I can make myself a vase like that which the old Roman kept at his bedside and wore the rim slowly away with kissing it. So I, who had never had a sister and was fated to lose my daughter in infancy, set out to make myself a beautiful and tragic little girl” (Faulkner). Octavo. Original white cloth-backed black and white patterned paper boards, titles to spine in black, patterned endpapers, top edge blue. With dust jacket. Spine ends faintly toned, else sharp and bright, an exceptionally nice copy in the dust jacket, spine panel sunned (as the fugitive red is notoriously prone to do so), a little loss to ends, extremities rubbed and slightly creased, couple of shallow chips. ¶ Sarah Churchwell, “Rereading The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner”, The Guardian , 20 July 2012. William Faulkner, “An Introduction for The Sound and the Fury ”, The Southern Review , 1972, pp. 705–10, available online. £10,000 [151153]
quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. Front inner hinge starting, small production flaw to rear hinge, small tear to top of front joint of jacket, but a stunning copy of a famously vulnerable publication. ¶ With thanks to John Ward, professor in the English department at Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT, for information about the recipient. £50,000 [118733] 28 FAULKNER, William. The Sound and the Fury. New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1929 In the first issue dust jacket First edition, first printing, first issue dust jacket, with Humanity Uprooted advertised at $3.00 on the rear panel. The Sound and the Fury was Faulkner’s own favourite of his works: “It’s a real son-of-a-bitch . . . This one’s the greatest I’ll ever write” (Churchwell). This is his fourth novel, and the second to be set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha Country, Mississippi, Faulkner’s “apocryphal country” (ibid.) Faulkner’s first Yoknapatawpha story, Flags in the Dust , was initially turned down by his publishers, and only published after heavy editing as Sartoris
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