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New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1931. First edition. Near Fine/Very Good +. A lovely, Near Fine copy of the book with a previous owner's bookplate on the front paste-down and some minor dampstaining to the rear end leaves, otherwise a bright, crisp copy. In a Very Good+ to Near Fine dust jacket with the spine panel a bit toned and two clean tears on the rear panel, without loss (the larger about an inch long and a corresponding crease across the panel). Completely unrepaired and unrestored, and presenting very well. This copy with grey pattern on the magenta end-papers, and price of $2.50 on the bottom of the front flap. Faulkner's controversial prohibition era novel was a commercial and critical success; and along with his novels The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary led to his Nobel Prize for literature in 1949. "The theme of Sanctuary is the discovery of reality with the concomitant discovery of evil...instead of victory and moral vindication, [the…

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.