FAULKNER, William.
The Town.
New York: Random House , 1957.
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First Edition of William Faulkner's The Town
First edition, first printing of the second novel in Faulkner's celebrated Snopes trilogy with line 8 on page 327 repeated as line 10. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good later issue dust jacket. Bookplate to the front free endpaper and ownership inscription to the pastedown. Jacket design by Push Pin Studios.
With The Town, the second in Faulkner’s Snopes trilogy that began with The Hamlet (1940) and concluded with The Mansion (1959), he returns “to Yoknapatawpha County and to one of his finest themes… The Town is an integral and important part of the great Yoknapatawpha saga” (Granville Hicks, New Leader). Alfred Kazin noted on publication, “As so often happens with a Faulkner book, one is conscious of Faulkner’s own voice, of his unflaggingly passionate mind… The Town is a book with Faulkner’s stamp and brand and fire all over it” (New York Times).
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