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Donna Tartt. THE SECRET HISTORY [and] THE LITTLE FRIEND. (2) volumes. London: Bloomsbury, 2009. Limited edition; no. 844 of 1000 copies. Both signed by the author on the limitation page. Hardcover. Black paper-covered boards decorated in blind with silver lettering on the spine, all edges silver, with black ribbon bookmark; in pictorial dust jackets and presented in a matching slipcase. 8vo; [viii], 628, [4]pp.; [x], 555, [11]pp.
Each 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.
From the Collection of Bruce R. Kuniholm, University Distinguished Service Professor of Public Policy and History Emeritus, Founding Dean Emeritus of the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina A limited edition box set containing Tartt's first and second novel.
Minor scuffing to boards, extremely clean interiors, and the jackets with very light scuffing from handling; the jacket for
The Secret History with a 5/8-in. tear at the head, and the signature smudged and with bleed-through to verso; light wear to slipcase (mostly to underside); near fine in very good or better jackets and in an approaching near fine slipcase.