Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel
Good Paperback

For sale: a Rare first edition, first printing paperback copy of Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel with damp stains on last 30 pages. First Picador Edition stated, September 2010 Picador. First Printing with full number line reversed, 10 9 8 76 5 4 3 2 1.

The exterior of this paperback edition is in Very Good condition, with clean, illustrated covers with one corner crease, some marks on page blocks, mild surface wear, strong title on a lightly creased spine, a tight binding with no spine cracks, rubbed spine ends, moderate to heavy edge wear and  rounded corners. The interior of the book is in Good condition with crinkled pages from now dry water damage to the last 30 pages and the rear end paperThe damp stains are mild and do not impinge on reading.  There is also the ghost of an erased price on the first free end paper. No other marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership inside.

Winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize

England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe opposes him. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people, and implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph?

Ships promptly in a clasp envelope with book wrapped in both craft paper and multiple layers of bubble wrap.