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New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1931. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Fine in an attractive about very good dust jacket with some toning on the white on the spine and a modest square chip at the foot, and a handful of small nicks. Filmed in 1933 as *The Story of Temple Drake* with Miriam Hopkins in the title role. Both the book and the film were controversial and the latter was banned for several years. A nice, presentable copy. *Connolly 100*.

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.