The Little Friend by Donna Tartt [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 2002 • Knopf

The Little Friend by Donna Tartt FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING [2002] ALFRED A. KNOPF  Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.  Dust jacket has some minor shelf wear; but otherwise clean and in tact now housed in a new archival quality jacket protector. Book reads nicely.  Boards show some wear; slight spine crack along an initaled front endpaper [see last photo]  Binding is otherwise tight.   Reads clean; minor discoloration to text block. Bestselling author Donna Tartt returns with a grandly ambitious and utterly riveting novel of childhood, innocence and evil.The setting is Alexandria, Mississippi, where one Mother’s Day a little boy named Robin Cleve Dufresnes was found hanging from a tree in his parents’ yard. Twelve years later Robin’s murder is still unsolved and his family remains devastated. So it is that Robin’s sister Harriet - unnervingly bright, insufferably determined, and unduly influenced by the fiction of Kipling and Robert Louis Stevenson--sets out to unm