Faulkner's first installment in his Snopes trilogy charts the fortunes (or otherwise) of the Snopes family in Mississippi. The novel served as the basis for the 1958 film, The Long Hot Summer with Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, and Orson Welles. Pictorial title page tipped-in facing p. (iv). Publisher's black cloth shows mild shelfwear, a trace of faint dampstaining to lower margin of several interior pages. Overall very good in very good first issue dust wrapper that shows some color restoration to extremities. Bookplate.