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First edition, SIXTH printing (July, 1931). A near fine, tight copy in quarter grey cloth over magenta patterned paper boards, black colored top page edge coloring; in a very good plus original designed dust jacket with modest spine edge chipping, minor nicking to the shelf extremities, and age-toning to the rear panel. The front flap retains the original price of $2.50. Easily erased contemporary penciled name and date to the front endpaper (we prefer to leave it), and the dust jacket is in a later state with reviews to the front flap. William Faulkner, a Nobel Prize winner, also won two Pulitzer Prizes. Sanctuary was Faulkner's commercial and critical breakthrough that established his literary reputation. Film adaptations include The Story of Temple Drake (1933) and Sanctuary (1961). A nice copy! Listed in Cyril Connolly's 100 Key Books of the Modern Movement.

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.