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Smith, Ali.
Winter.
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, London;
Date of Publication: 2017
Stock Code: 8931
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. [8], 321, [7]. Barbara Hepworth’s “Winter Solstice” from colour screenprint to rear free endpaper. Publishers’ grey cloth with black and silver titles to spine an upper board, in unclipped half-height pictorial dust-jacket (not a wraparound band) with artwork by David Hockney. Clean and crisp; no annotation or inscriptions. White panel to rear of jacket lightly scuffed. A Fine copy in Near Fine jacket. Second novel in Smith’s Seasonal cycle and follow-up to “Autumn”. Tells the story of a Christmas meeting of family and friends at a country house in Cornwall “ in a story rooted in history and memory and with a taproot deep in the evergreens, art and love” (from jacket front flap). £85.00