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Please see description & photographs below for detailed condition.. The Hamlet. New York: Random House, 1940 First trade edition. Description: Black cloth lettered in gold; top edge stained red, publisher's pictorial jacket. Color pictorial title page. Jacket minor extremity wear, small chip to bottom spine tip, price clipped; near fine in like jacket. First issue jacket without reviews but a list of "Recent and Forthcoming" titles offered by the publisher on the rear panel. Volume one of the Snopes family chronicles. The Town. Random House, 1957. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Publisher's cloth in dust jacket with grey top-stain. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Minimal shelf handling wear. First State, with line 8 repeated on line 10 on page 327. The first state dust jacket is with the price of $3.95 correct with the 5/57 at bottom of front flap. The second novel in Faulkner's celebrated Snopes trilogy and…

The Town, the second novel in William Faulkner's Snopes Trilogy, chronicles the rise of Flem Snopes in Yoknapatawpha County. Continuing the story begun in The Hamlet and culminating in The Mansion, The Town deftly explores and expands on the themes of ambition, power, and corruption in Southern society.