White Teeth.
by Smith, Zadie
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Hamish Hamilton, 2000. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. [xii], 461, [1]. Original red boards, spine lettered in gilt, colour-printed dustjacket. Poor-quality paper a touch toned. Dustjacket lightly but unevenly sunned. The first edition of Zadie Smith’s debut novel, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian First Book Award and the Whitbread Book Award for best first novel.
Synopsis
White Teeth is a 2000 novel by the British author Zadie Smith. It focuses on the later lives of two wartime friends - the Bangladeshi Samad Iqbal and the Englishman Archie Jones, and their families in London. The book won multiple honors, including the 2000 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction, the 2000 Whitbread Book Award in category best first novel, the Guardian First Book Award, the Commonwealth Writers First Book Prize, and the Betty Trask Award.
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Details
- Bookseller
- McNaughtan's Bookshop (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6084
- Title
- White Teeth.
- Author
- Smith, Zadie
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- Literature Modern First Editions
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....