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Octavo, [viii], 371pp. Maroon cloth, title stamped in gold on spine and front cover. Stated "first printing" on copyright page. Includes the repeated line on page 327. Blemish to endpapers from tape used to secure dust jacket cover. A clean copy, appears unread. In publisher's first state dust jacket, $3.95 on front flap and 5/57 at bottom, bright illustrations, small mark on rear flap, a fine example. One of the best examples of Faulkner's The Town that we've ever encounter.

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.