New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Good+ in Fair dust jacket. [c.1947]. Hardcover. William Faulkner's novel, first published in 1931, deals grippingly with the difficult subject of rape. The author maintained that he wrote the novel strictly to make money, but it was a success with critics as well as the public. This later edition includes a new introduction by the author. Volume wrapped in jacket with E. McKnight Kauffer illustration to front panel. --- In Toledano spine 8 / blue cloth / gilt titling on red spine & cover blocks / red topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style h, verso lists 329 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1947 (though 1932 date appears in book). ML #61.2. --- With underlinings and notations in red ink to perhaps as many as 25 leaves in the back half of the book, age-toning to leaves and mild soiling to cloth, else a tightly-bound, sound copy. Fair-only price-clipped, brittle dust jacket with complete vertical split, several tears and a few chips and general age-toning but mostly intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; viii, 380 pages .

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Bookseller: Bluebird Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 86476
Title: Sanctuary Modern Library #61.2
Author: FAULKNER, William
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good+ in Fair dust jacket
Publisher: The Modern Library / Random House
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: [c.1947]

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Good+: A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Leaves: Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
12mo: A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Verso: The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.