Uncorrected proof copy. Octavo. Publisher’s original glossy paper wrappers.
 
A very good copy, a little wear, some staining to the fore-edge.
 
The uncorrected proof copy of Donna Tartt’s hugely successful debut novel, heralded as a sensation even in advance of its publication.
 
In the proof copy, Tartt has a different epigraph; with a long quotation from Charles Cochrane’s Christianity And Classical Culture in the proof, being replaced by something from Nietzsche’s Unzeitgemasse Betrachtungen in the first edition.
 
In correspondence, Tartt revealed “there are some other significant changes besides that --- I was rewriting all the way until press time.”