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New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1930. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition, first printing, second issue text with "I" properly aligned on page 11. Near Fine with light lean to binding. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with darkening to the spine panel, soiling, light edge wear, rubbing at the folds with several short splits started at the ends.

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.

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