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Signed limited first edition of Faulkner's second book in the Snopes Trilogy. Limited to 450 copies signed by Faulkner to the limitation page, of which this copy is number 424. New York: Random House, 1957. Publisher's original beige cloth, lettered in gilt; pp. (x), 371. A very good or better copy. Binding remains tight, sturdy and square. Light rubbing along the rear spine joint and spine crown, a couple smudges to spine with a few small droplets to boards and foredge of the text block, tiny bump to top edge of text block. Protected in a removable archival jacket.

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.

First edition is bound in red cloth with blue and gold lettering on the spine.