Smith, Zadie — The Fraud

New York, Penguin Press, 2023. First 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 black paper over boards, black cloth-backed, sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine. Stated First Edition. Another fine novel 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. 454 pp. including acknowledgments.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Fine,