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William Faulkner. First edition, stated first printing. Dust Jacket: Very Good+ An unclipped jacket with original $3.00 price on inside flap. Beautifully designed jacket by E. McKnight Kauffer. In Mylar protective wrapper. Hardcover: Near Fine. New York: Random House, 1948. No writing or markings in the book, 247 pp.This was Faulkner's seventeenth novel and first since The Hamlet (1940). The author won the Nobel Prize in 1949 but didn't receive it until 1950.
Intruder in the Dust, explores the South's racial problems through the medium of a murder mystery. It was originally planned as a short story. But the work grew to the size of a novel and was not completed until April 1948.
