NMLP P-033427 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The Sound and the Fury

William Faulkner · Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith · 1929

US Cape & Smith is the true first; the UK Chatto & Windus edition is later. Earliest Faulkner firsts are defined by the Cape & Smith imprint and first-state binding.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-033427 for "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-033427, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).