[4], 401 pp. 7½x5¼, black, white and gray patterned paper over boards with white cloth and black-lettered spine, top page edge stained blue-gray, endpapers match patterned covers, a few pages unopened, pictorial jacket; housed in a fine gray cloth chemise and quarter gray morocco and cloth slipcase with two gilt-lettered red morocco spine labels. First Edition, First Issue Jacket.

First issue jacket with no printed price on the front flap and the $3.00 price present for Maurice Hindus' Humanity Uprooted on the back panel under the "New Publications" section. Also, there is a curious woodcut eye illustration used as part of the text on page 388. Apparently, only 1789 copies were issued and according to the publisher, sales records show that about 1500 copies had been sold by the time Sanctuary was published in February 1931. "Faulkner often called this his favorite work because its composition had caused him the greatest agony" - Petersen A6b; Massey 322.