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First edition (as stated upon copyright page) INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY WILLIAM STYRON. 245 pages. Hardcover: H 20.75cm x L 14cm. Dust jacket with some toned/foxing and soiling; small chips and several tears at edges; front flap retains publisher's printed price at bottom right; dj presented in an older mylar protector. Bluish-gray boards; toning at top and bottom edges. Text block edges toned with additional foxing to top edge. Light toning to endpapers; small stain at rear free endpaper verso's top left. Two-line ink inscription "To Carson Holloman | William Styron" upon the title page. Slight cigarette order to book which will fade with time. Binding is firm. Contents: Introduction by William Styron; "The Fisherman from Chihuahua" by Evan S. Connell, Jr.; "Last Comes the Raven" by Italo Calvino; "The Conversion of the Jews" by Philip Roth; "Stones" by Samuel Beckett; "The Hundredth Centennial" by Mac Hyman; "Death on the Avenue de Segur" by Antoine Blondin; "The Sun and the Still-born Stars" by Terry Southern; "The Acrobat" by Gerard Kornelis Van Het Reve; "The Engines of Hygeia" by John Phillips; "The Mexican Girl" by Jack Kerouac; "The Fishers" by Hughes Rudd; "In the House Where They Were Born" by Pati Hill; "At the Pool" by William Fain; "The Summer Fire" by Owen Dodson. The inscribee is Curtis Carson Holloman Jr. (1939-1991) who served on the English Department faculty at Northwest Mississippi Community College in Senatobia, Mississippi. This book is among a collection of first editions from the Holloman estate with most author signatures acquired at literary events held at the University of Mississippi in Oxford.