(New York: Random House, 1948).

LOVELY FIRST EDITION. Faulkner's seventeenth volume searches the conscience of the South. "It is a study of murder and the mass mind, of an accused black man whose guilt or innocence becomes secondary to the larger moral problems of justice itself, of a boy just old enough to find his way into manhood under the stress of conflicting values, of a community suspended momentarily between instinctive decency and bestial, irrevocable action." Item #33369

First edition and first printing. 8vo, publisher's original black cloth lettered in gilt and blue on the upper cover and spine, in the original dustjacket. 247 pp. A fine copy.