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254pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Rebound in 3/4 blue leather with blue cloth over boards, and a gilt stamped title and ornamental designs on the spine. "1930" stamped in gilt at the foot of the spine. Top edge gilt. Modern marbled endpapers. Silk ribbon page-marker. The backstrip is very subtly sunned. Faulkner won the Nobel Prize for "The Sound and the Fury." "As I Lay Dying" is Faulkner's fifth novel, a Southern Gothic novel and one of the most influential novels in American literature. The novel has fifteen different narrators, ranges in mood from dark to comedy, and is Faulkner's self-proclaimed masterpiece. A fascinating study of the numerous voices found in a Southern family and community. First edition, first issue (p. 11 "I" is misaligned).

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.