Description
Signed and dated first printing of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story, John Berendt. Includes the publisher’s first state dust jacket.
Octavo, [6], 388pp, [4]. Green hardcover, black spine, title stamped in green on spine. Stated “First Edition” on copyright page with publisher’s full number line beginning with “2.” Solid text block, light wear to heel of the spine, a near fine example. Includes the “fmr” error on Page 11, line 32. In publisher’s first state dust jacket, $23.00 retail price on front flap, blurb by Ann Bettie on the rear cover, faint shelf wear, a bright, near fine example.
This copy is signed and dated 7/30/94 by the author, a few months after the book’s release in 1994.
John Berendt (b. 1939) is a journalist turned author. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil was his first book, spending a record-setting 216 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction, tells the true story of the murder trial of Jim Williams in Georgia. The book was released on January 10, 1994. This book was adapted into a movie of the same name in 1997, directed by Clint Eastwood and starring John Cusack.
