8vo. Title printed in blue and black. Original blue cloth lettered in yellow, top edge stained yellow, blue decorative endpapers (a light touch of wear at spine ends); dust jacket (spine lightly faded, tiny marred spot on spine slightly touching first letter in title, small scorch mark to front lower fore-corner). Provenance: John Jay Carney (bookplate).

FIRST EDITION IN THE FIRST STATE DUST JACKET with the "mosquitoes" design of Faulkner's satirical second novel about the residents of a New Orleans artistic colony who embark on a four-day yachting cruise. Petersen A4.1a. A VERY BRIGHT, NEAR FINE COPY.