FAULKNER, William (1897-1962). As I Lay Dying. New York: Jonathan Cape, 1930.

8vo. Original beige cloth, lettered in dark brown and properly aligned, top edge dark brown (front lower corner bumped, slightly leaned); in unclipped dust jacket (spine sunned, discreet repair to spine verso near head, some splitting along front panel joint and flap fold corners); morocco-backed folding box.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with the dropped "I" on p.11. 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 A7c.