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MORRISON, Toni (1931-2019). Beloved. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. [276], [1, blank] pp. Publisher’s full white cloth, front board and spine stamped in silver, publisher’s unclipped (“$18.95”) dust jacket (light offsetting and faint soiling to endleaves, minor faint soiling to title-page; jacket spine a bit toned, some light rubbing). Fine. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY MORRISON ON THE TITLE-PAGE. This psychological and supernatural novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988, and was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1987. The New York Times ranked it as the best American novel from 1981 to 2006. This was the basis for the 1998 film directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover.