A good or better copy of William Faulkner's second novel and one of just 3,047 copies of the first edition printed. Comes in a very good or better supplied later state and much sought after "card-player" variant dust jacket from the new edition unclipped with the $3.00 price. Condition: 8vo. 349 pages - publishers' blue cloth with gilt stamped titles to the cover and spine and decorated endpapers. Spine print is mostly gone as is usual. wear to edges with corners bumped, softening to spine tips with some fraying to the cloth, hinges weak with rear hinge cracked. Lower corner of page 321 missing not impacting the text block. The outer edge of several pages chipped or torn where the pages were cut open roughly. The dust jacket is in nice condition with just light edgewear, sunning to the spine, heavy toning to the rear cover and lighter toning to the jacket flaps. Overall, a very good copy of this early Faulkner title.