Unsigned first edition book: These Thirteen by William Faulkner. First edition. NY: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1931. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.5 x 8, 358 pages. Book condition: VG/VG, with bands of toning to spine, ink ownership stamp opposite the half-title page, and darkened jacket spine with inked initials. Released two years after The Sound and the Fury, this was Faulkner's first collection of short stories to be published.