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New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1931 First edition, first printing. Original publisher's gray cloth-backed red paper-covered boards, spine lettered in red; original dust jacket with modern geometric designs to the front panel and spine in black, blue and white, lettered in black and white. About fine in an excellent unclipped dust jacket with very slight wear and a couple nicks to the spine ends, spine with a slight touch of toning. A near fine example, housed in a custom quarter leather box. Sanctuary is a Southern Gothic novel set in Jefferson, the seat of the fictional Yoknapatawpha County in Mississippi, based on Faulkner's childhood experiences in Oxford. His most sensational novel, it tells the story of Temple Drake, a young Mississippi woman who becomes the victim of the criminal assistant of a notorious Tennessee moonshiner. After being raped and kidnapped, Drake is smuggled to a Memphis brothel, where she becomes hardened by her harsh new environment, and…

Sanctuary is one of William Faulkner's novels set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County. The book was originally published in 1931. It tells the story of Temple Drake, a young woman who gets entangled with bootleggers and experiences the brutalities and moral decay of the American South.

First editions of 'Sanctuary' published by Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith will have '1931' on the copyright page with no additional printings noted, and typically have a solid cloth binding.