Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Description: 10pp some light wear and rubbing. good, wraps (softcover) some light wear/rubbing
Seller: Ray Boas, Bookseller - Established 1980, Walpole, NH, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 10p octavo,A very good copy in black white printed wraps simulating the cover of "The Sound and the Fury". Small chip on the foredge of the front cover. 1/1000 copies printed.
Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$190.00 + shipping
Description: Custom Clamshell Case. No Binding. First Edition Clamshell Case. Custom Clamshell Case Only [Not with Book]. Hand-Crafted by our conservation team, each box is finished in wine cloth & black cloth, gilt stamped spine maroon title piece, 'Sculpted' 'torment' design on the side capturing the DJ illustration. The box is perfectly sized to accommodate the first edition. Protect your investment. A Terrific Collector's Custom Case for an important Book. Web Site photo/link available for overv 100 generally in-stock titles. Custom Craft available.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Faulkner, William. The Sound and the Fury. Jonathan Smith and Harrison Cape, New York, 1929.
Price: US$2499.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original Art Deco style boards. First Edition. One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. Previous owner’s name in pencil on half title, Very Good. No Dust Jacket.
Seller: Pride and Prejudice-Books, Ballston Lake, NY, U.S.A.
Faulkner, William. The Sound and the Fury. Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, New York, 1929.
Price: US$5655.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The first edition, first printing. Publisher's white quarter-cloth over patterned paper boards with matching endpapers. Top edge dyed blue-grey, fore-edge untrimmed. Octavo. ii[blank]iv,401pp. Mild toning to spine, with light handling and shelf-wear to head and tail, and to edges of boards. Old owner's bookplate, in a handsome and complementary design, but with the old owner's name rubbed away. Ink date notation to top inside rear endpaper. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and handsome, quite remarkably preserved copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Seller: CARDINAL BOOKS ~~ ABAC/ILAB, London -- Birr, ON, Canada
Faulkner, William. The Sound and the Fury.. Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, New York, 1929.
Price: US$9200.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing of Faulknerâs masterpiece. Octavo, original half cloth over black and white patterned paper boards. Very good in a very good second state dust jacket with Humanity Uprooted priced at $3.50 instead of $3.00 on the rear panel. Housed in a custom clamshell box. Published in 1929, The Sound and the Fury was Faulkner's fourth novel, and was not immediately successful. In 1931, however, when Faulkner's sixth novel, Sanctuary, was publishedâ"a sensationalist story, which Faulkner later said was written only for moneyâ"The Sound and the Fury also became commercially successful, and Faulkner began to receive critical attention. The four parts of the novel relate many of the same episodes, each from a different point of view and therefore with emphasis on different themes and events. This interweaving and nonlinear structure makes any true synopsis of the novel difficult, especially since the narrators are all unreliable in their own way, making their accounts not necessarily trustworthy at all times. When Faulkner began writing the story that would develop into The Sound and the Fury, it "was tentatively titled âTwilight,â [and] narrated by a fourth Compson child," but as the story progressed into a larger work, he renamed it, drawing its title from Macbeth's famous soliloquy from act 5, scene 5 of William Shakespeare's Macbeth: "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools, The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more: it is a tale, Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Faulkner, William. The Sound and the Fury.. Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, New York, 1929.
Price: US$12500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Faulknerâs masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth, black and white patterned paper boards. Near fine in a very good unrestored first-issue dust jacket with the iconic design by Kathe Kollwitz on the front panel and a price of $3.00 for the book Humanity Uprooted on the rear panel, with a chip to the spine. Petersen A6.2a. Brucolli & Clark I:121. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. "Although The Sound and The Fury is now considered one of top one hundred novels of the 20th century, it actually wasnât initially received well upon publication. This was mostly due to the fact that at the time Faulkner wasnât well-known as a novelist, although this was his fourth published work. Because he had not had much commercial success with his first few novels, it is believed that the publisher limited the initial printing run to 1,789 copies.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Faulkner, William. The Sound and the Fury. Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, New York, 1929.
Price: US$13500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing dust-jacket with no price on dust jacket and $3.00 price on rear panel for "Humanity Uprooted" 401 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Faulkner's Masterpiece. A pioneering work of American modernism, Faulkner's fourth novel, which employed a stream-of-consciousness technique and multiple narrators; the flap copy says it "suggests Joyce in its technique and the Russians, - perhaps Dostoyevsky - in its theme," but in retrospect the work is purest Faulkner, with multiple narrators and cascading layers of history, telling the story of the fall of a grand Southern family through the generations. Peterson A6b Original black and white boards with white cloth spine, some fading to head and foot of spine, and rubbing along bottom edge; unrestored dust-jacket with usual fading to spine, two small chips to top of back panel and one to top of front panel, small bit of loss to head of spine, spine with visible crease First edition, first printing dust-jacket with no price on dust jacket and $3.00 price on rear panel for "Humanity Uprooted".
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Faulkner, William. The Sound and the Fury. Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, New York, 1929.
Price: US$15000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's black and white Art Deco style boards over white cloth spine lettered in black. Near Fine with toning to pages and top and bottom edges of covers. In a Very Good first issue dust jacket with Humanity Uprooted priced at $3.00 on the rear panel; toning to spine with fading to red print there, light edge wear, light soiling, and erased pencil notation to rear flap corner. A fantastic copy in the scarce first issue dust jacket.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Faulkner, William. The Sound and the Fury. Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, New York, 1929.
Price: US$15000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A Near Fine copy of the book in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Book with a bright white spine, previous owner's bookplate on the front paste-down and just slight toning and wear at extremities. Jacket with the spine well faded, as usual, and a small repair to the front lower corner, replacing a small chip. Additional wear at the crown, but no other repairs or restoration. First state jacket with "Humanity Uprooted" correctly priced at $3.00. Faulkner's masterpiece - and one of the towering classics of American literature. The Sound and the Fury follows the travails of the Compsons, a once prominent family in Jefferson, Mississippi. Originally Faulkner began the work as a group of short stories about the Compsons, but decided it would be better suited as a novel - and a very experimental one, at that. A contemporary review in the Nashville Tennessean described it: "Not an easy book. It cannot be read objectively; the reader, if he is to savor the best in this book, must surrender himself entirely. The story has much beauty, but it is a beauty that hath terror in it, the beauty of pathos and tragedy. Never had I adequately known the meaning of pathos until I read the first part of this book." Faulkner's style was too complex for the novel to be an immediate hit, but in time it assumed an important place in the canon and was cited as one of the reasons Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1949. The novel appears on Modern Library's 100 Best English Novels of the 20th century and Le Monde's list of the 100 Books of the Century. Near Fine in Very Good + dust jacket.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
FAULKNER, WILLIAM.. The Sound And The Fury. New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1929, 1929.
Price: US$15000.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Very good in a very good first state (Humanity Uprooted is priced at $3.00 rather than $3.50) dust jacket with a faded spine, minor soiling , tiny chips and tears. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
FAULKNER, William.. The Sound and the Fury.. Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, New York, 1929.
Price: US$25000.00 + shipping
Description: 401 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth-backed patterned boards in the earliest jacket, with a $3.00 price shown for Humanity Uprooted by Maurice Hindus. In a custom clamshell quarter morocco folding box. First edition. Petersen A6.1 A fine copy with tight hinges and no discoloration or tanning to the white cloth spine. The jacket has a few chips to the top of the spine and the edges of the front panel, but the red printing on the backstrip is only very slightly faded. Much better then usually found.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Faulkner, William. The Sound and The Fury. Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, New York, 1929.
Price: US$25000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing with "First Published 1929" printed on the copyright page. A wonderful copy. This ORIGINAL First Issue dustjacket with the title "Humanity Uprooted" priced at $3.00 on the back panel is rich in color with minor repair The book is bound in the publisher's cloth and is in excellent condition. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp with minor wear to the spine. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A beautiful copy.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Faulkner, William. Sound and the Fury. Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, New York, 1929.
Price: US$30000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing. A stunning ORIGINAL sophisticated dustjackett that is rich in color with NO fading or pieces missing. This First Issue dustjacket has the "Humanity Uprooted" priced at $3.00 on back panel. Later editions were changed to $3.50. The book is bound in the publisher's cloth and is in great shape. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning with minor wear to the edges. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A superb copy of this true First Edition. We buy Faulkner First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Faulkner, William. Sound and the Fury. Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, New York, 1929.
Price: US$37500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing SIGNED by William Faulkner on a laid in signature. An attractive First Printing dustjacket with Humanity Uprooted priced at $3.00 on the back panel of the dustjacket. Later dustjackets have Humanity Uprooted priced at $3.50 This ORIGINAL dustjacket has some fading to the spine and light wear to the edges. The book is in excellent shape. The binding is tight, with no leans or cocking. The boards are crisp with minor wear to the edges. The pages are clean with no writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy SIGNED by the author.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.