WILLIAM FAULKNER. — Light in August. A novel.

Chatto & Windus, London, 1st Edition, First UK Edition (first printing), issued a year after the US edition. 8vo. 480pp. Russet-coloured cloth, lettered in gold at the spine and with the publisher's reddy-brown top edge stain. The cloth a little marked in places, and a little tubbed and bumped at several extremities. Several small areas of indeterminate soiling to the top edge. Free endpapers functionally toned, and the half-title, title page and first text leaf lightly spotted. Quite a nice bright copy. No dust wrapper. The author's seventh novel, a Southern Gothic classic, originally published in the US in 1932 in a print run of 11,000 copies, with this significantly more uncommon English edition appearing a year later in a print run of 2,500 copies., Good, No Jacket