Holiday 2020 Catalogue

15 H o l i d a y 2 0 2 0 “The Greatest Innovator In The History Of American Fiction” 12. FAULKNER, William. The Sound and the Fury. New York, 1929. Octavo, original half white cloth, dust jacket. $18,000. First edition of Faulkner’s masterpiece, in rare unrestored first-state dust jacket. Faulkner’s intricate masterwork began its life as an innocuous short story “about a girl and her brothers,” gradually growing into “this radically different work, this immense leap in technique that would contribute to one critic’s calling him ‘the greatest innovator in the history of American fiction’” (Blotner, 212). Book near-fine, with slight toning to extremities. Fragile price-clipped dust jacket extremely good, with shallow chipping and fading spine, as often. A desirable and completely unrestored copy of an exceptionally rare Faulkner title.