Soldiers' Pay by William Faulkner [FIRST EDITION FACSIMILE] 1954

Soldiers Pay by William Faulkner 

FACSIMILE OF THE FIRST EDITION [1954] BONI & LIVERIGHT • THE FIRST EDITION LIBRARY

Incredibly rare hardcover facsimile of the first printing of Faulkner's first novel. 

Light shelf / rub wear.  Otherwise mint and unread.  Dust jacket now housed in a new HD brodart jacket protector. 

A group of soldiers travel by train across the United States in the aftermath of the First World War. One of them is horribly scarred, blind and almost entirely mute. Moved by his condition, a few civilian fellow travellers decided to see him home to Georgia, to a family who believed him dead, and a fiancée who grew tired of waiting. Faulkner's first novel deals powerfully with lives blighted by war.