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How to be both – Ali Smith
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Original price was: $45.00.Current price is: $36.00.

Near Fine First Edition, First Printing in a Near Fine dust jacket protected in a new archival wrap. Please see below for more details.

1 in stock

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Description

For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first edition, first printing hardcover copy of How to be both by Ali Smith in a new archival wrap.  First US Edition stated, 2014 Pantheon. First Printing with full number line reversed, 9-1. This is the “Eyes Then Camera” Edition!

The book is in Near Fine condition with clean,bright boards with some small dents by a bumped corner on the back. Also, strong title ink on a straight spine, lightly foxed page blocks, tight binding, mild spine tilt, heavily rolled spine ends, two bumped corners, and the dents on the back corner. The interior of the book is in Near Fine condition with the ghost of an erased price on the first free end paper. No other marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership inside. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright, making it an excellent addition to any collection.

The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with mild surface and edge wear and the price is intact on the flap. Looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap.
How to be both is a novel all about art’s versatility. Borrowing from painting’s fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it’s a fast-moving genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions. There’s a Renaissance artist of the 1460s. There’s the child of a child of the 1960s. Two tales of love and injustice twist into a singular yarn where time gets timeless, structural gets playful, knowing gets mysterious, fictional gets real—and all life’s givens get given a second chance.
In half of all printed editions of the novel the narrative EYES comes before CAMERA.
Ships promptly in corrugated mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and multiple layers of bubble wrap.

Additional information

Weight 2 lbs
Dimensions 8.51 × 5.6 × 1.27 in
Artist

Smith, Ali