Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first paperback edition, early printing of Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell. First Vintage Books Edition stated, May 2021 Vintage Books. Second Printing with partial number line, 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2.
The exterior of this paperback edition is in Near Fine condition, with clean, illustrated covers with no creases, clean page blocks, mild surface wear, strong title on a square spine, a tight binding with no spine cracks, bumped and rubbed spine ends, mild edge wear and lightly rounded corners. The interior of the book is in Near Fine condition with an erased price on the first free end paper and no other marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership. The inside covers and the interior pages are clean and bright. Appears to be unread.
England, 1580. A young Latin tutor—penniless and bullied by a violent father—falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman. Agnes is a wild creature who walks her family’s land with a falcon on her glove and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer, understanding plants and potions better than she does people. Once she settles with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon, she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband, whose career on the London stage is just taking off when his beloved young son succumbs to sudden fever.
Ships promptly in a secure mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and bubble wrap.
