8vo. Original half black cloth, marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine (spine lightly sunned, a few tiny spots of rubbing to upper cover).

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 142 of 750 copies, SIGNED BY FAULKNER. Requiem for a Nun is perhaps best-known for its inclusion of one of Faulkner's most famous lines: "The past is never dead. It's not even past." Petersen A32.1a.