Sanctuary
- New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1931
New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1931. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1931. First Edition. Octavo; 380pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.50 price intact; minor professional restoration. Light gray cloth over magenta paper-covered boards; black topstain; geometric maroon patterned endpapers. Housed in custom-made clamshell case with cloth title labels.
Dust jacket shows discrete professional repairs along edges with color in-filling to chips along edges and spine. Light shelfwear to boards; small spot to bottom third of front joint; binding sound and pages unmarked. A Very Good or better copy of Faulkner's commercial breakthrough, which Faulkner claimed was a "potboiler" though Connolly commends its treatment of the underworld which "contains the true vitality of America in its code."
Connolly 69; Petersen A8.2.
Dust jacket shows discrete professional repairs along edges with color in-filling to chips along edges and spine. Light shelfwear to boards; small spot to bottom third of front joint; binding sound and pages unmarked. A Very Good or better copy of Faulkner's commercial breakthrough, which Faulkner claimed was a "potboiler" though Connolly commends its treatment of the underworld which "contains the true vitality of America in its code."
Connolly 69; Petersen A8.2.