William Faulkner

A first edition, second issue copy of Faulkner's novel, with the original dust jacket.

• William Faulkner (American).
• New York: Jonathan Cape: Harrison Smith, 1930.
• 254 pages.
• Bound in original tan cloth with brown lettering, red top stain, in original unclipped ($2.50) tan dust jacket. 

One of the indisputably great novels of the twentieth century, As I Lay Dying is a story of family horror and human tragedy. Faulkner claimed to have written it in just six weeks, without any real effort to speak of: "It just came all of a piece with no work on my part. I thought of all the natural catastrophes that could happen to a family and let them all happen." It was easy, he said, "real easy."