NMLP P-033434 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The Sound and the Fury / As I Lay Dying

William Faulkner · Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith (New York) · 1930

Both are US Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith (New York) firsts: 'The Sound and the Fury' 1929 and 'As I Lay Dying' 1930. The corrected page-11 state of 'As I Lay Dying' follows the broken-'I' state within the same first printing.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-033434 for "The Sound and the Fury / As I Lay Dying" by William Faulkner (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-033434, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).