First Edition Points and Criteria for Absalom, Absalom!
Year Published: 1936
Author Last Name: Faulkner
Author First Name: William
Publisher: Random House
Original Price: $2.50
Pages: 384
The true first was a signed edition limited to 300 copies. The book has half green cloth over patterned boards and top edge gilt.
The first trade edition states 1936 on the title page and 1936 on the copyright page with no additional statements of printings. Black boards with red horizontal lines and gilt lettering.

This is the signed first limited edition.

This is the signature page from the signed first limited edition.

This photo and the photos below are of the first trade edition.




Other first edition points for books by William Faulkner include: A Fable, The Reivers, Requiem for a Nun, Collected Stories of William Faulkner, The Mansion.
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Other first edition points for books by William Faulkner include: A Fable, The Reivers, Requiem for a Nun, Collected Stories of William Faulkner, The Mansion.
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