Description
First edition of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story by John Berendt, signed by the author on a bookplate.
Octavo, [6], 388pp. Black hardcover, black spine, title stamped in green on spine. Solid text block, faint dust along top edge, a near fine example. In publisher’s dust jacket, $25.00 retail price on front flap, vibrant imagery, a fine example. Signed by the author on a bookplate on front free endpaper.
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. This book was adapted into a movie of the same name in 1997, directed by Clint Eastwood and starring John Cusack.
