White Teeth

First edition. 8vo. Pp. xi, 462, [4, blank]. Red cloth, lettered in gilt to spine; tan endpapers. Publisher's £12.99 price tag affixed to dustwrapper cover, itself illustrated by Ali Campbell, with author's photo by Roderick Field to rear flap.

Signed and dated by Author to title page in the year of publication. In storage since release, with just a hint of toning to textblock edges.

A comic epic of multicultural Britain, Smith's highly acclaimed debut novel, written while still a Cambridge undergraduate. Winner of the 2000 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction, the 2000 Whitbread Book Award for best first novel, the Guardian First Book Award, the Commonwealth Writers First Book Prize, and the Betty Trask Award. Included in TIME Magazine's 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005. Adapted for the small screen in 2002 by the BBC. "A preternaturally gifted new writer [with] a voice that's street-smart and learned, sassy and philosophical all at the same time." –Michiko Kakutani, New York Times