BERNARDINE EVARISTO. — The Emperor's Babe. A novel.

Viking, New York, 1st Edition, The first American edition (first printing) and the first casebound edition, issued a year after the UK edition which only appeared in paperback format. 8vo. xi, 250pp. Paper-covered cloth lettered in silver at the spine. Backstrip ends gently bruised and with a remainder mark to the bottom edge. A very good copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with a trace of corresponding chafing to the spine panel ends. The author's second novel, historical fiction in verse (Evaristo would go on to jointly win the 2019 Booker Prize for 'Girl, Woman, Other')., Very Good, Very Good