Description
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. Solid text block, a fine example, without the usual sunning to the spine panel. In the publisher’s acetate jacket, shelf wear to side panels, chip along top edge of rear panel, a very good example.
Signed by the author on the limitation page, number 661 of 750 copies.
Requiem for a Nun was published in 1951 as a sequel to Sanctuary, returning to Temple Drake and the moral consequences of the earlier novel. This limited edition preceded the first trade edition.
