$200
Estimate: $400 - $600
Auction: February 18, 2021 10:00:00 AM EDT
American Vanguard Ithaca and New York: Cornell University Press, 1948. First edition. 8vo. 323 pp. Edited by Don M. Wolfe. Inscribed: "To Ben C. Toledano/William Styron/New Orleans/Nov. 68" on title-page. Original slate gray cloth, stamped in blue; in original unclipped dust-jacket. Styron's short sketch, "A Moment in Trieste", was one of his earliest appeareances in print, aged 23, three years before his debut novel, "Lie Down in Darkness" appeared. Together with: The Confessions of Nat Turner New York: Random House, (1967). First and limited trade edition, one of 150 copies signed by Styron on a tipped-in leaf. 8vo. (429) pp. Original black cloth, stamped in silver, gilt, and orange; tan endpapers, top edge stained red, faded, other edges untrimmed; in original unclipped dust-jacket. A near-fine copy. Together with: This Quiet Dust and Other Writings New York: Random House, (1982). First edition. 8vo. 305 pp. Signed by Styron on half-title. Original black cloth stamped in gilt; in original unclipped dust-jacket. A near-fine copy.