First edition of The Confession of Nat Turner, signed by William Styron.
Octavo, 428pp. Black cloth, printed title on spine, signature in gilt on cover. Brown endpapers, clean pages, top edge stained pink. Faint rubbing to lower edge of text block, residual spotting to deckled edge and bottom text block. Stated “first printing” on copyright page. Publisher’s first state dust jacket, very good, small closed Tera on upper back edge, with ’10/67′ in bottom of front flap and $6.95 price tag. Signed by Styron on half title page, with archival Mylar wraps included.
Wonderful, signed and priced copy of the rare book! Smoke free.
Comments: The Confessions of Nat Turner won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.