Sartoris

Census claim confirmed. The true first is Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, published 31 January 1929 — the only Faulkner title Harcourt, Brace issued, and the debut of Yoknapatawpha County. The first UK edition is Chatto & Windus, London, 1932; it is collected as the English first but does not precede. The first-thus trap is Flags in the Dust (Random House, 1973, edited with an introduction by Douglas Day), which restores the full manuscript that Harcourt cut by roughly 40,000 words to make Sartoris. It is the first edition of the complete text, not a first edition of Sartoris, and the two are frequently conflated in catalogue copy.