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The Confessions of Nat Turner. [Limited Signed First Edition]
The Confessions of Nat Turner. [Limited Signed First Edition]

The Confessions of Nat Turner. [Limited Signed First Edition]

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1968


Limited, signed first edition of American novelist William Styron’s controversial book, The Confessions of Nat Turner, winner of the 1968 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

“Based on the true story of a brutal Virginia slave rebellion in the early nineteenth century that resulted in the massacre of dozens of white settlers, it is told through the eyes of its mastermind, the black slave Nat Turner, who was later hanged. Hailed as a masterpiece by leading critics, the book became a bestseller… Appearing at the height of the civil rights and Black Power movements, Nat Turner also attracted harsh indictment from many black critics, who accused Styron of racial stereotyping and worse in his portrait of Turner. Moreover, they argued that Styron, as a white man, was not qualified to write about blacks and had thus committed what would later be called cultural appropriation. Several prominent black intellectuals, including historian John Hope Franklin and novelist James Baldwin, came to Styron’s defense…” (ANB)


Description: The Confessions of Nat Turner. [Limited Signed First Edition]

New York: Random House, (1967). First Edition. Limited to 500 numbered and signed copies on special paper and specially bound and slipcased. [1 (limitation leaf)], [i]–[x], [1 (“Author’s Note”)], [xi]–xvi, [3], 4–428, [2]pp. Publisher’s red cloth stamped in silver and black; top edge tinted; publisher’s orange paper-covered slipcase. Number 482 of 500 copies Signed by the Author. Spine with some faint fading and light rubbing; mottling to slipcase; very good.

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