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[Historical fiction] Wolf Hall. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, No.18 of only 100 copies. Octavo (25 x 17cm), in publisher's quarter red morocco leather over gilt-stamped cloth sides, black endpapers, cloth slipcase [together with] Bring Up the Bodies. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, one of 1000 copies. Octavo (25 x 17cm), in publisher's pictorial hardcovers with design based on the famous 'B necklace' portrait of Anne Boleyn, cloth slipcase blocked with the golden falcon emblem [together with] The Mirror and the Light. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, one of 500 copies. Octavo (25 x 16cm), in publisher's cloth, with exclusive, specially-designed dust-jacket, cloth slipcase [together with] The World of Wolf Hall. A supplementary reading guide in publisher's softcovers (not signed). Fine throughout. The second two titles are unopened in shrinkwrap. Published to celebrate Hilary Mantel's first Man Booker Prize, the 'Wolf Hall' edition is limited to 26 lettered copies and 100 numbered examples, being signed on the title page. Later sheets were used (11th printing), being issued in a special leather binding. The remaining two titles followed as limited first editions. The reader's guide completes the set. Not to be confused with the uniform cloth-bound signed limited edition set, which was limited to 1000 copies of each title and was issued without slip-cases.

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.