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New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1931. First. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A fine first edition in a fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom-made collector's clamshell case. Original price still on front flap. Small store sticker to rear paste-down.

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.

First editions of 'Sanctuary' published by Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith will have '1931' on the copyright page with no additional printings noted, and typically have a solid cloth binding.