8vo. Red and black folding map at rear. Original cloth-backed patterned boards, gilt-lettered spine, top edge gilt, others uncut (some toning to extremities).

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 123 of 300 copies on Holliston Rag paper, SIGNED BY FAULKNER. The novel details the rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen, and the story is told almost entirely in flashbacks narrated by Quentin Compson (his Harvard roommate). Its groundbreaking technique, along with that of The Sound and the Fury, contributed to his being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Petersen A18.2a.