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First edition, first impression, signed and dated by the author on the title page a month after publication, "Hilary Mantel 27 May 2009". This title launched her popular trilogy on the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell, minister of Henry VIII. Winner of the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2009, the novel has since been adapted to critical acclaim for both stage and television. Octavo. Original black boards, spine lettered in gilt, illustrated endpapers. With dust jacket. Light finger-soiling to front cover, bumps to lower edges, resultant creases to lower outer corner of initial leaves, contents clean. A very good copy indeed in like dust jacket, slightly creased but bright. .

Winner of the Man Booker Prize, 'Wolf Hall' explores the complex personality of Thomas Cromwell and his rise to power in the court of Henry VIII.