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Condition: Fine: First edition, first impression with numeral 1 to copyright page. Signed by the author in bold black italics direct to the title page without dedication. Very clean and bright original binding with gilt letters to the spine; hard spine tips and sharp corners to the boards; no previous owner's marks or gift dedication. Very clean and firm text block with no spotting, just the usual sunning to the page edges with this title. Dust jacket condition: Fine: no faults or marks to very clean and bright wrapper, which is not price clipped. A fine book with a fine dust jacket for the collector, with a rare direct signing by the author to the title page without dedication. A similar version of this title is on sale at a highly-regarded Mayfair bookshop for twice the price.

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.