BELL, MADISON SMARTT — The Washington Square Ensemble

NY: The Viking Press, 1983. 0670750050. Stated First Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0670750050. Quarter bound in publisher's black cloth over red boards, metallic silver lettering on spine. This is a first edition, first printing, of Madison Smartt Bell's first novel. Publisher's blurb laid in. Bell (b. 1957) is now a critically acclaimed novelist. Over the last two decades he has produced more than a dozen novels and story collections, as well as numerous essays and reviews. His books have been finalists for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award among other honors. Born and raised outside of Nashville, Bell's fiction is often set in the South, or in New York where he lived as a young writer. Bell and his wife, poet Elizabeth Spires, currently live in Baltimore, Maryland, where they are the codirectors of the writing program at Goucher College. Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket (now in Mylar) are in virtually perfect, pristine condition: unmarked (except for an erased price on the ffep), unread, tight, clean, and crisp. NEAR FINE/AS NEW.. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (xii), 351 pp. Near Fine in As New dust jacket .