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Requiem for a Nun
by Faulkner, William
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- Fine
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/near fine
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1951. Limited Edition. Cloth. Fine/near fine. Signed limited edition of Requiem for a Nun by William Faulkner.. Octavo, [8], 286pp. Three-quarter black cloth, marbled paper boards, title stamped in gilt on spine with embellishments. Top edge dyed gray. Offsetting from a newspaper article laid in at page 3. Solid text block, a fine example. In the publisher's acetate jacket, shelf wear, a near fine example. Signed by the author on the tipped-in limitation page, number 127 of 750 copies. William Faulkner (1897-1962) was a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author, recognized for A Fable in 1955 and The Reivers in 1963. The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, and Light in August were recognized by The Modern Library on their 1998 list of 100 Best English-language Novels of the 20th Century. Faulkner primarily set his stories in the American South, many of which took place in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County.
Synopsis
Requiem for a Nun is a book written by William Faulkner in 1951. Like many of Faulkner's works, Requiem experiments with narrative technique—the book is part novel, part play. The protagonist is Temple Drake, a character introduced as a college student in Sanctuary, one of Faulkner's early novels. In Requiem Temple, now married with a child, must learn to deal with her violent, turbulent past as related in Sanctuary.
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- Bookseller
- The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13242
- Title
- Requiem for a Nun
- Author
- Faulkner, William
- Illustrator
- Signed limited edition of Requiem for a Nun by William Faulkner.
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1951
- Keywords
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- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
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- Text Block
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- Cloth
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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