Description
For sale: a rare and exceptional first hardcover edition, first printing of A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman: Complete Short Stories by Margaret Drabble. First American Edition unstated, 2011 Houghton Mifflin. First Printing with complete number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1.
The book is in Fine condition with clean boards, a strong title gilt, clean text blocks, tight binding, no spine tilt, lightly rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, and strong corners. The interior of the book is also in Near Fine condition with no marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and lightly toned.
The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with the price on the front, and mild surface and edge wear. Looks great in a new archival wrap.
Margaret Drabble’s novels have illuminated the past fifty years, especially the changing lives of women, like no others. Yet her short fiction has its own unique brilliance. Her penetrating evocations of character and place, her wide-ranging curiosity, her sense of irony—all are on display here, in stories that explore marriage, female friendships, the English tourist abroad, love affairs with houses, peace demonstrations, gin and tonics, cultural TV programs; in stories that are perceptive, sharp, and funny. An introduction by the Spanish academic José Fernández places the stories in the context of her life and her novels. This collection is a wonderful recapitulation of a masterly career.
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