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First edition, first printing, inscribed by the author on the first blank, "For Nancy. Best wishes, Toni Morrison". Beloved is Morrison's most acclaimed work and earned her the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. A film adaptation, starring Oprah Winfrey, was released in 1998. Writing in the New York Times, John Irving described the work as "another triumph" and praised Morrison's "versatility and technical and emotional range [which] appear to know no bounds. Beloved is written in an antiminimalist prose that is by turns rich, graceful, eccentric, rough, lyrical, sinuous, colloquial and very much to the point" (29 March 1987). Octavo. Original cream cloth, spine lettering and front cover decoration in silver, publisher's device on rear cover in blind. With dust jacket. Cloth lightly mottled, foxing to top edge, faint endpaper offsetting, contents clean; jacket slightly creased, mild toning to spine and upper edges, colours bright, unclipped: a very good copy in like jacket.

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.