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First edition, first printing, inscribed by the author on the half-title, "To Bruce - best wishes, Donna Tartt". 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 acetate jacket. Ticket of Reed's Gumtree Bookstore (Tupelo, Mississippi) to jacket front flap, their bookmark loosely inserted. Faint marks and scratches to unclipped jacket, as often: a fine copy in near-fine jacket.

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, most horribly, they discover how hard it can be to truly live with what they have learned.