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First edition, the special limited issue, no. 159 of 300 copies signed by Faulkner.

Recently voted the ‘Best Southern Novel of all time’, Absalom, Absalom! layers various unreliable narratives in a history of the Sutpen family in Faulkner’s native Mississippi around the time of the Civil War. The fall of plantation culture and the curse of slavery are ever-present themes.

Petersen A17d.

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