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First USA Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. A fine book in a fine unclipped dust jacket The red cloth with gray top stain has the 8th line i repeated on the 10th line of page 327 as called for in the first printing. The dust jacket has the "5/57" on the inside front flap as called for in the first printing. The Dust Jacket has light fading to the spine and slight wear to the spine ends and folds. A superior copy of the 2nd book in the Snopes Trilogy. Housed in a quarter morocco slipcase with matching chemise. Peterson A47 1b.

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.