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The Confessions Of Nat Turner
by Styron, William
- Used
- near fine
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near fine/near fine
- Seller
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Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1967. First Edition. Cloth. Near fine/near fine. First edition of The Confessions 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 top edge of pink top stain. Stated "first printing" on copyright page. Publisher's first state dust jacket, near fine, with '10/67' in bottom of front flap and $6.95 price tag. Signed by Styron on tipped-in page, with Kroch's & Brentano's First Edition Circle bookmark included. The Confessions of Nat Turner won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1968.
Synopsis
The Confessions of Nat Turner is the title of two books: The Confessions of Nat Turner, the Leader of the Late Insurrections in Southampton, Va. , an 1831 book written after Nat Turner's trial by his lawyer, Thomas Ruffin Gray The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967), a 1967 novel by William Styron
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- Bookseller
- The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 695
- Title
- The Confessions Of Nat Turner
- Author
- Styron, William
- Illustrator
- First edition of The Confessions of Nat Turner, signed by William Styron.
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1967
- Keywords
- first edition The Confessions of Nat Turner, signed Confession of Nat Turner, first edition William Styron
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- Cloth
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