THE ACCIDENTAL

Smith, Ali

Published by (London): Hamish Hamilton/ An Imprint Of Penguin Books, (2005).

About this Item

First edition, first printing. "First published 2005" statement and first printing code I to the copyright page. SIGNED by the CBE, FRSL, multi-award winning literary Scottish author to the title page. Smith's third novel earned the Costa Book Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Orange Prize, and the Women's Prize. She has garnered four Man Booker Shortlists to date. A novel of a family who by accident of assumption, takes in a stranger that manipulates and changes each family member, leaving a wake of identity and relationship reality in her aftermath. Fine, square, tight and unread with white pages (unusual with white instead of tanned paper) in black linen boards with gilt embossed titles to the spine, golden-yellow end-papers, black-and-yellow headband and tail-band; in a fine, crisp dust jacket; original printed £14.99 price still intact to the front inner flap; Independent U.K. bookstore's printed certificate of signed authenticity band loosely wrapped around the dust jacket. Octavo; 306 pages. Seller Inventory # ABE-1705123171168

Bibliographic Details

Title: THE ACCIDENTAL

Publisher: (London): Hamish Hamilton/ An Imprint Of Penguin Books, (2005).

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition