Augustus
New York: The Viking Press, 1972.
First edition, first printing. Signed by John Williams on the half-title page and inscribed to Lyle and Mary Dorsett. [x], 305 pp. Bound in publisher's red paper-covered boards over green spine cloth lettered in gilt, pink topstain, cartographic endpapers. Near Fine with light fading to covers. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light toning and edgewear and creasing to upper corner of front flap.
The author's fourth and final novel, which shared the 1973 National Book Award with John Barth's Chimera. Williams had a thirty-year career at the University of Denver, where Lyle Dorsett began teaching history the year this book was published.
Price: $3,800