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London: Chatto & Windus, 1987. First edition. First British edition, first printing. Signed by Toni Morrison on the half title page. [viii], 275 pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. Typical age-toning to contents, else Fine in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. A beautiful copy of Morrison's historical, ghostly novel set during the Reconstruction Era. The novel won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction a year after publication.

Beloved is a novel by Toni Morrison published in 1987. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988 and is set after the American Civil War. It tells the story of a family of former slaves whose Cincinnati home is haunted by a malevolent spirit.