"First Printing" is stated on the copyright page. Boards are black cloth with silver lettering, brown/maroon top stain, and no book club blind stamp on the bottom right corner of the back. Price of $6.95 is found on the upper right corner of the front dust jacket flap, and "10/67" is on the bottom.
500 copies of the first edition were printed on special paper, specially bound in reddish/orange cloth with silver lettering over black on the spine, and issued in an orange slip case. They were signed by the author and numbered on a special page.
The Confessions of Nat Turner book won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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 | Picture of the 1967 first edition dust jacket for The Confessions of Nat Turner. |
 | Picture of the first edition copyright page for The Confessions of Nat Turner. |
 | Picture of dust jacket where original $6.95 price is found for The Confessions of Nat Turner. |
 | Picture of the back dust jacket for the first edition of The Confessions of Nat Turner. |
 | Picture of the first edition Random House boards for The Confessions of Nat Turner. |
 | Picture of the back dust jacket flap for The Confessions of Nat Turner. |
 | Picture of the title page for The Confessions of Nat Turner. |
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 | The dust jacket spine is susceptible to sunning like the one on top. |
 | This is a one of the 500 copies that were specially signed, numbered, and bound. It was issued in an orange slip case. |
 | This is the signed and numbered page from one of the 500 copies that were specially signed and bound.
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 | This is the boards from one of the 500 specially signed and numbered copies. |
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