"Sanctuary" 1932 FAULKNER, William Peal & Co

"Sanctuary" 1932 FAULKNER, William Peal & CoFAULKNER, William The Modern Library Book No. 61 [380] pp. 1932 7 1 4" x 5 1 4" Jacket design by E. McKnight Kauffer '40 Sanctuary is a 1931 novel by American author William Faulkner about the rape and abduction of an upper class Mississippi college girl, Temple Drake, during the Prohibition era. The novel was Faulkner's commercial and critical breakthrough and established his literary reputation, but was controversial given its themes. It is said

Claude Montana

here are the follies and foibles of such plutocrats as William Vanderbilt and Leona Helmsley

it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl

which a primary reason he is mostly remembered for his work with Dior

This edition is limited to 1200 copies on English unbleached hand-made paper of which this is number 724

Baldrige with luck

*rear panel of jacket separated at spine*

and shows how he makes use of the classical tradition

footwear and neckwear

Peter and Nancy

Simon's catalogue of his personal collection of books on Gastronomy printed before 1861

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