THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER

New York: Random House, 1967. First Edition, first printing. 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, silver and orange on the spine and upper cover. In the original orange dustjacket. xvi, 428, (1). A very fine copy of the book, the dustjacket also in fine condition with the orange of the spine panel barely touched by the sun and with very little evidence of age or use. FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL FIRST EDITION DUSTJACKET. “In the late summer of 1831, in a remote section of southeastern Virginia, there took place the only effective sustained revolt in the annals of American Negro slavery...the revolt was led by a remarkable Negro preacher named Nat Turner, an educated slave who felt himself divinely ordained to annihilate all the white people in the region....
THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER is not only a masterpiece of storytelling; it also reveals in unforgettable human terms the agonizing essence of Negro slavery. Through the mind of a slave, William Styron has re-created a catastrophic event, and dramatized the intermingled miseries, frustrations--and hopes--which which caused this extraordinary black man to rise up out of the early mists of our history and strike down those who had held his people in bondage.” RH. Today, the book is considered one of the classics of 20th century American literature.