DONNA TARTT THE SECRET HISTORY Rare 1992 HCDJ First Edition Dark Academia 1st

by Donna Tartt

$250 · Offered by eBay

First edition

THE SECRET HISTORY by DONNA TARTT Rare First Edition. First Printing 1992. This modern-day Greek tragedy follows a group of close-knit classics students at an elite New England college as they try to cover up the consequences of their Dionysiac experiments. It was an immediate success and has since been credited with popularizing "dark academia" as a genre. Octavo. Original pictorial boards, spine lettered in black on white ground. With printed super glossy acetate jacket; unclipped jacket a little rubbed, slightest scuffs, tiny dings, as often, but not with the usual condition issue fanfare associated with this fragile clear acetate dust jacket designed by Chip Kidd: a very good plus copy in like jacket. Please review all photos. Rare as hen’s teeth in collectible condition. Price is firm. Immaculate! From the Back Cover Truly deserving of the accolade a modern classic, Donna Tartt's novel is a remarkable achievement--both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful. Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality their lives are changed profoundly and forever, and they discover how hard it can be to truly live and how easy it is to kill. One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years We are Antiquarian Book

• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Year: 1992
• Condition: Very Good

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