Secret History, The – Donna Tartt
NF Later Print PB

For sale is a rare and exceptional first edition, later printing of The Secret History by Donna Tartt, First Vintage Contemporaries Edition stated, April 2004 Vintage Contemporaries. Later printing with partial, high number line.

The exterior of this paperback edition is in Near Near Fine condition, with clean, illustrated covers with no creases, clean page blocks, mild surface wear, strong title on a square spine, a tight binding with no spine cracks, lightly rubbed spine ends, mild edge wear and lightly rounded corners. The interior of the book is also in Fine condition with no marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership inside. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright, making it a pristine unread collectible. Striking cover design by Barbara De Wilde and Chip Kidd.

Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality.

Ships promptly in corrugated mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and multiple layers of bubble wrap.