AS I LAY DYING

By William Faulkner
(1930)

First edition, second issue of Faulkner's best novel, with the original dust jacket in remarkably beautiful condition.

Near fine in near fine jacket.

"That was when I learned that words are no good; that words don't ever fit even what they are trying to say at."

One of the indisputably great novels of the twentieth century, AS I LAY DYING is a story of family horror and human tragedy Faulkner claimed to have written in just six weeks, without any real effort to speak of: "It just came all of a piece with no work on my part. I thought of all the natural catastrophes that could happen to a family and let them all happen." It was easy, he said, "real easy."

Read more: Petersen, William Faulkner: The Carl Petersen Collection, A7.2; Meriwether & Millgate, Lion in the Garden: Interviews with William Faulkner.

New York: Jonathan Cape: Harrison Smith, (1930). 7.25'' x 5''. Original tan cloth with brown lettering. Red topstain. In original unclipped ($2.50) tan dust jacket. Initial "I" aligned on page 11. 254 pages. Light pencil notation to jacket front flap; tiny contemporary bookseller ticket to rear pastedown. Book with minor soil to front joint. Light edgewear and a few traces of soil to jacket; spine toned.

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