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New York: Random House, 1957. First Edition. 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 story award in 1946, losing out to Wellman, a prolific genre writer. Rumor has it that Faulkner was drunk and looking to pick a fight with Wellman (a former college football player) until he realized his size. But the feud appears to have been short-lived; Wellman was an admirer of Faulkner's style and wrote critically on it. Upon Faulkner's death in 1962, though, Wellman was offered his position as writer-in-residence at University of Virginia but turned it down. [viii], 371 pp. Bound in publisher's tan cloth with black lettering an green ruling. Near…

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.