The Town

by William Faulkner, Manly Wade Wellman

$9,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

First edition · Signed

New York: Random House, 1957. First edition, first printing with repeated line on p. 327, second state binding, jacket lacks 5/57 but is priced at 3.95. Signed by William Faulkner on the title page, inscribed to fellow Southern writer Manly Wade Wellman, To W M Wellman from Bill Faulkner, Richmond 15 December 1958. A very interesting association as Faulkner notoriously made a stink when he was snubbed for a mystery

• Printing: first

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