[Rarebooks] FS: Dominick Dunne's A Season in Purgatory

[John Howell]

FS: Dominick Dunne's A Season in Purgatory; this is the SIGNED LIMITED EDITION printed by the Franklin Library for The Signed First Edition Society in 1993.  

DUNNE, Dominick (1925-2009).  

A Season in Purgatory.  

Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1993.  

8vo.  9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches.  377 pp.  Frontispiece illustration by Karen Stolper; text clean, unmarked.  Bound in red leather with raised bands, gilt-stamped on spine and with decorative patterns on front and back covers, all edges gilt, marbled end-papers; binding square and tight.  Note and envelope from Lynda and Stewart Resnick of The Franklin Mint, and program from 1994 Women’s Guild Annual Spring Membership Luncheon, laid in.  SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.  Fine.  
$ 30
LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.  A Season in Purgatory is a 1993 novel by Dominick Dunne.  It was inspired by the 1975 murder of Martha Moxley, for which Michael Skakel, the nephew of Ethel Skakel Kennedy, eventually was convicted.  Dune became fascinated with the story after covering the 1991 rape trial of William Kennedy Smith for Vanity Fair.  Evenlyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited strongly influenced the structure and characters of A Season in Purgatory.

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