(New York: Random House, 1954).

FIRST EDITION. This book won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Faulkner spent more than a decade and tremendous effort on it, and considered it his masterpiece when it was completed. An allegorical story of World War I, set in the trenches in France and dealing ostensibly with a mutiny in a French regiment, it was originally considered a sharp departure for Faulkner. It has since come to be recognized as one of his major works and an essential part of the Faulkner oeuvre. Item #33368

First Edition, first printing. 8vo, publisher’s original maroon cloth, lettered and decorated in black, silver and pink on the spine and upper cover, in the original decorated dustjacket. (8), 437 pp. A very good copy, the dustjacket only lightly mellowed, old tape residue to the endleaves and a bookseller's stamp at the end of the volume.