Sanctuary

Hardcover. Condition: VG+ in mylar cover. No dust jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Bound In red paper-covered boards with a Gray cloth spine, black topstain. First published In 1931, it was a commercial and critical breakthrough for Faulkner. The book has light soiling to the spine and edgewear to the tips. Internally clean boards and pages throughout. Slight spine lean

New York: Modern Library, 1931. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Modern Library edition, with a new introduction by the author prepared for this edition, this is a later printing. Very good in a very good dustwrapper. *Connolly 100*.

This is one of a mint-condition set of three matching books by the American author William Faulkner (1897-1962). They are first reissues, by his publisher (Random House) of Sanctuary, Light in August and The Sound and the Fury. They are simple red matte boards with gold lettering on the cover and spine. Lovely paper. They do not appear to have been… Saber más sobre este artículo

NY: Modern Library. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1932. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Red flexible cloth titled in gilt. First Modern Library edition stated. Bookplate to inside cover. Hint of rubbing/creasing to covers and slight dampstaining to block edge. Sound square copy. The DJ in mylar is lightly chipped to edge, toned to spine. ;… Saber más sobre este artículo

First Grosset and Dunlap Edition with new introduction from author. Dust Jacket not price clipped with archival cover. 1932

New York: Modern Library, 1932. Reprint. Hardcover. Very good +/very good. E. McKnight Kauffer. With a New Introduction [1932] by Faulkner. 12mo. Light blue cloth, with gilt lettering over red patches on spine and front cover. Red top stain. Patterened Kent end papers. 380 pages, with lists of Modern Library titles at end. Prior owner's name/address sticker (small)… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Modern Library , 1959. Modern Library Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good +. Modern Library #61. In blue cloth with red title panels and gilt. Some faint marks to bottom of front board and light wear to edges. There is a little sepeartion at title page, but biinding still solid. Jacket is unclipped ($1.95) with some chips mainly at… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1931. First Edition, Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 380 pages. In Very Good minus dust jacket. Quarter bound in gray cloth with red paper boards and red text on spine. Boards mild edgewear and shelfwear. Textblock has sticker on front endpaper and slight spotting on fore edge. Head edge of textblock dyed black.… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1931 First edition, first printing. Original publisher's gray cloth-backed red paper-covered boards, spine lettered in red; original dust jacket with modern geometric designs to the front panel and spine in black, blue and white, lettered in black and white. About fine in an excellent unclipped dust jacket with very slight wear and a… Saber más sobre este artículo

N.Y.: Random House, 1958. Tight Clean Volume w/light foxiing to top/btm page ends, 250 rough cut pgs. No names or dings or DJ. 250 pgs. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Penguin Books, 1947. Softcover. Very Good. First Penguin Books edition. Paperback reprint. Perfectbound in glossy wrappers. About near fine with sunning to the spine, light edgewear and laminate on the edge of the rear starting to lift but still intact; and with remarkable white and supple pages.

USA: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1931. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Sanctuary by William Faulkner First Edition First Impression Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith 1931. New York. No inscriptions, no foxing to contents or edges. Patterned endpapers without any splitting or cracking to hinges. A bright near VG copy. "Sanctuary" is a novel written… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Modern Library, 1932. Hardcover. Good Minus/Very Good. Reprint, blue cloth with red title blocks, Toledano binding style 8, Kent endpapers, 388 titles listed on rear of dust jacket. Gilt on front board rubbing away, faint damp stain to bottom front edge and light bumps to bottom corners, internally clean and sound; price clipped dust jacket with… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Johnathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1931. First edition of the novel that established Faulkner's literary reputation. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers. From the library of Virginia bibliophile and historian Christopher Clark Geest with his bookplate. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco chemise and clamshell box. A very sharp… Saber más sobre este artículo

Random House. Very Good+. 1958. Hardcover. Red cloth covers with gilt titles to the spine and author's name to the front cover. A tightly bound copy with an unmarked text, light spine end and corner bumping. Overall in Very Good+ condition. ; 8.30 X 5.60 X 1 inches; 250 pages .

New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Very Good, with light staining to base of spine and bottom of rear board, light wear at crown and corners, previous owner details to front paste down, with a bit of bleeding on endpapers and lightly to bottom edge of page… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1931. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Good +. 8vo. Grey quarter cloth with burgundy paper-covered boards. Grey stained top edge. 380 pp. Lacks the scarce dust jacket. Cock to spine. Significant sunning to spine, with a tiny closed tear at spine footer. Small dent in top edge of front board,… Saber más sobre este artículo

A powerful novel examining the nature of evil, informed by the works of T. S. Eliot and Freud, mythology, local lore, and hardboiled detective fiction. Sanctuary is the dark, at times brutal, story of the kidnapping of Mississippi debutante Temple Drake, who introduces her own form of venality into the Memphis underworld where she is being held.

London, United Kingdom: Chatto and Windus, 1931. Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition, First Printing. This is a true UK first edition, first printing (first impression) with cloth stamped in Gold to the Spine & four pages of adds to the rear. The date "1931" to the title page to indicate a true first print and… Saber más sobre este artículo

Random House, 1958. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Book shows light wear to corners. Red HB covers with gilt print on cover and spine. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 250 pages. Previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book.