Books

First U.K. edition, first printing, with the full number line to the copyright page. The book is firmly and squarely bound in black cloth, lettered in gilt to the spine, the corners and spine ends are very lightly bumped. The text block is a little toned with some minor dusty marks. The dust jacket, atmospherically illustrated with the reproduction of Clarence White's 'Faun and Girl', is the original and not price clipped, it is lightly rubbed to the edges, with very slight lifting of the upper coating to the spine ends. The U.K. hardback first edition is something of a rarity, despite being produced to a much better standard than the majority of British books in the 1990s, as most copies seem to have been destined for libraries and unsurprisingly read to destruction. This is a remarkably well preserved example and looks to be little read.

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.