The Confessions of Nat Turner.

STYRON, William.

$250.00

Item Number: 127426

New York: Random House, 1967.

First edition of Styron’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Gene Barnett best wishes William Styron.” Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.

Based on the true story of an 1831 slave revolt, Styron's controversial novel was fiercely debated and critically acclaimed as "magnificent… it is one of those rare books that show us our American past, our present-ourselves-in a dazzling shaft of light" (New York Times).