The Fifty Year Sword by Mark Z. Danielewski [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 2012 • Pantheon

The Fifty Year Sword by Mark Z. Danielewski  FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [2012] PANTHEON *Beautiful edition with unique punctured jacket design.    Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition with some flaws to jacket. Dust jacket has shelf wear;  a few patches of color fading / discoloration; but is otherwise attractive and in tact.   Now housed in a new archival quality jacket protector. Book itself is excellent; looks and reads good as new. In this story set in East Texas, a local seamstress named Chintana finds herself responsible for five orphans who are not only captivated by a storyteller’s tale of vengeance but by the long black box he sets before them. As midnight approaches, the box is opened, a fateful dare is made, and the children as well as Chintana come face to face with the consequences of a malice retold and now foretold.