FAULKNER, William (1897-1962). The Sound and the Fury. New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, [1929]. 8vo. [2, blank], [iv], 1-401, [1, blank] pp. Publisher's white cloth backstrip over patterned paper boards, spine lettered in black, patterned endleaves, publisher's unclipped (no price present, but with a pencil marking, ?2.50") dust jacket (cloth spine a bit toned and rubbed, boards toned with some edgewear, endleaves a bit toned, bookseller's ticket on ffep., pages 210-211 with offsetting from an unidentified paper item; jacket spine sunned, with a dime-sized hole in the center and chipping at edges, jacket panels, toned, soiled, with several marginal chips, short creased tears). A very good copy in a good jacket.FIRST EDITION IN A FIRST STATE DUST JACKET (?Humanity Uprooted" on rear jacket panel is priced $3.00, not the later $3.50). Only approximately 1,789 copies were printed. This is Faulkner's fourth novel, a story of "the decay of a Southern family of gentle blood and of its members who become drunkards, suicides, idiots, and pathological perverts" (Coan, p.58).?Petersen A6b.Measurements: 10"L x 9"W x 2"H.