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New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1931. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in a nice, near fine dustwrapper with tiny nicks at the crown, very slight age-toning on the white portions of the spine, and the front flap fold strengthened professionally with Japanese tissue on the inside. Filmed in 1933 as *The Story of Temple Drake* with Miriam Hopkins in the title role. Both the book and film were controversial and the latter was banned for several years. A fresh and attractive 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.