8vo. Gray title page, title and publisher's device printed in white, the rest printed in black. (Some offsetting on limitation leaf.)  Original publisher’s half cloth and marbled boards, spine gilt-decorated; original acetate dust jacket.

 

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 122 of 750 copies SIGNED by Faulkner. Requiem experiments with narrative technique, being a hybrid of the novel and the play. The protagonist is Temple Drake, a character introduced as a college student in Sanctuary, one of Faulkner's early novels. Requiem for a Nun is perhaps best known for one of Faulkner's most famous lines, "The past is never dead. It's not even past." Massey 219; Petersen A32.1a.