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New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1931. First edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. A lovely, Near Fine copy of the book with a few small spots to the closed text-block, otherwise a bright, crisp copy. In a Near Fine dust jacket with just a few small chips at the crown, but overall a bright, fresh jacket. 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 characters] receive a stunning kind of defeat…the traditional society has given place to a modern world in which amoral power is almost nakedly present”…

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.