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New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1930. First Edition. Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing, first issue text with "I" misaligned on page 11. Bound in publisher's original beige cloth stamped in brown. Fine with faint darkening to cloth at gutters, light soiling to textblock edge and rear endsheet. In a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket with slight soiling, slight edge wear, slight indentation along front spine fold along gutter. A beautiful bright and clean copy, in much nicer condition than as normally found.

As I Lay Dying is a 1930 Southern Gothic novel by American author William Faulkner. Faulkner said that he wrote the novel from midnight to 4:00 AM over the course of six weeks and that he did not change a word of it. It is Faulkner's fifth novel and consistently ranked among the best novels of 20th-century literature.

Identifying a first edition copy of 'As I Lay Dying' can be done by checking the publisher's information and print run details within the book, as first editions often contain specific markers such as errors or points that were corrected in later printings.