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SMITH, ALI: : Autumn. [Seasonal Quartet.]

LONDON.HAMISH HAMILTON,2016.

ISBN 9780241207000.

UK,small 8vo HB+belly-band - as issued,1st edn.[Complete number line 001.No dw/dj but bright,crisp,immaculate,non-clipped,David Hockney 3/4 wrap-around,colour illustrated paper belly-band - as issued.Only the US HB,1st edns issued with dw/dj.] FINE+/FINE+. No owner inscrptn and no clip to belly-band.Top+fore-edges bright,clean and without blemish; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread,apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp, clean, unblemished,sharp-cornered,original,plain brown cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked bronze gilt author's name and black ink printed title to front board and to spine/backstrip,rear board plain and undecorated,a gold headband and immaculate plain,pale green front endpapers,and colour illustrated rear endpapers.[The rear endpapers are the artist Pauline Boty's self-portrait painting.A British painter,Boty was a founder of the British Pop Art movement and the only female painter in the British wing of the movement.With her daring feminist art and freewheeling lifestyle,Boty personified the cultural scene known as Swinging London.She achieved brief fame in the patriarchal London art world of the 1950s and '60s but died at 28.] UK,small 8vo HB+ belly-band - as issued,1st edn,3-263pp [paginated] includes 3 partitions; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages, a dedication,epigraphs(3),3 individual partition separator pages,and to the rear,2pp blanks,and 2pp author's thanks. Ali Smith's dazzling,once-in-a-generation series,the 'Seasonal Quartet' - Autumn, Winter,Spring and Summer,a tour-de-force quartet of novels about love,time,art, politics,and how we live right now. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, 2017.Chosen by the Guardian as one of the Best Books of the 21st Century and a SUNDAY TIMES Top 10 Bestseller. A breathtakingly inventive new novel from the Man Booker-shortlisted and Baileys Prize-winning author. Daniel is a century old.Elisabeth,born in 1984,has her eye on the future.And the UK is in pieces,divided by a historic once-in-a-generation summer.Love is won,love is lost.Hope is hand in hand with hopelessness.The seasons roll round,as ever. Ali Smith's new novel is a meditation on a world filling up with borders,on what richness and worth are,on what harvest means.From Shakespearian jeu d'esprit,via Keatsian melancholy and the sheer bright energy of 1960s Pop Art,this first in a quartet of novels casts an eye over our own time,asking who we are,where we are, right now.Here is time,ever-changing,ever cyclical. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. That offer available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** This item offered P+p included. Available UK only. ** ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to USA can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

UK,small 8vo HB+belly-band,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.