Smith, Zadie — Grand Union: Stories
New York , Penguin Press, 2019. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. Bound simply in blue paper over boards, blue cloth-backed, sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine, and "Zadie Smith" stamped sharply to front cover. First U.S. Edition, having been published in the same year by Harrogate Publishers. Twenty short stories from the inimitable U.K.-based writer. The author, Zadie Smith, was a finalist for or winner of the Story Prize by the Orange Prize-, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award-, Whitbread First Novel Award-, Guardian First Book Award-, James Tait Black Memorial Prize-, Commonwealth Writers' First Book Award-, Wingate Literary Prize-, Welt-Literaturpreis-, Langston Hughes Medal-, Infinity Award-, National Book Critics Circle Award-, Bodley Medal-, PEN/Audible Literary Service Award-, and Critics' Circle Theatre Awards. Author also of N-W, White Teeth and On Beauty, which is in my top-ten. 245 [1] pp. including acknowledgments and permissions.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Fine,