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New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. [c.1956]. Hardcover. A Modern Library reprint edition of Faulkner's 7th novel, a story of small town life in the American South, set in his fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi (based on his actual home county of Lafayette). First published in 1932. With an introduction by Richard H. Rovere. Volume in black and yellow jacket variant. --- In Toledano spine 8 / pale green cloth / gilt titling on green spine & cover blocks / faded green topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso lists 377 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1956 (though 1950 date appears in book). ML #88.5. --- With discoloration to edges of cloth, otherwise a tightly-bound, unmarked copy. Price-clipped dust jacket with a few small tears & rubbing to front panel, strip of darkening to back panel, otherwise intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall); xiv, 444, (6, ads) pages .