Light in August (Modern Library #88.5) by FAULKNER, William - [c.1954]

New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. [c.1954]. 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 / green topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso lists 371 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1954 (though 1950 date appears in book). ML #88.5. --- A very well-preserved, tightly-bound copy, but with prior owner's inked info to front free endpaper. Price-clipped dust jacket with a few small tears & rubbing in spots, otherwise bright, intact and protected in removable mylar wrapper.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall); xiv, 444 pages .