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FAULKNER, William (1897–1962). To the Voters of Oxford. [Winston–Salem, NC:] Palaemon Press, 1980. Small 4to. Approximately 12 x 9”. Letterpress broadside. LIMITED EDITION, #66 of 100 numbered copies, from a total edition of 126. Fine. A facsimile reprint of Faulkner’s “Beer Broadside” that was printed in Oxford, Mississippi, shortly before the legalization of beer sales, that first appeared in the Oxford Eagle of September 14, 1950. Faulkner refuted four of the claims made by clergymen in favor of the ban, after they had printed an advertisement in the local paper, the Oxford Eagle, “proclaiming the evils of drinking and the potency of four percent beer” (Blotner, p. 521). The Eagle refused to publish Faulkner’s response to the clergymen but agreed to print his broadside for circulation. It went on to be published in The New Yorker, and was described by editors as “the clearest and most concise prose” that Faulkner had ever written. Petersen D15a (1950 edition).