8vo. Original beige cloth, lettered in dark brown, top edge stained red (spine leaned with a touch of wear at extreme ends); dust jacket (spine lightly toned, gentle soiling to extremities, tiny splits or chips at fore-corners and spine ends, two tiny holes on rear panel near spine not affecting letters).

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with the "1" on p.11 misaligned. The stamping on the front and spine is properly positioned. Petersen notes that the irregularities of the binding stamping and differing shades of the top edge stain do not exactly coincide with the dropped "1" issue point. Set in Yoknapatawpha County, Faulkner's fifth novel employs a stream-of-consciousness style to tell the story of the death and funeral of Addie Bundren through 15 different narrators across 59 chapters. Petersen A7.1c.