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First edition, first impression, signed by the author on the title page, "best wishes, Hilary Mantel". Wolf Hall won the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2009, was ranked first in The Guardian's 2019 list of the best books of the century so far, and has been adapted for both stage and television to critical acclaim. It also transformed the reputation of Thomas Cromwell, "by presenting him as a brilliant and revolutionary strategist. Enraptured critics said [Mantel] had presented the historical novel as high literature, portraying her subjects not as cardboard characters from centuries past but as real people of contradictions and psychological complexity, relatable in any age" (Marshall & Alter). Alex Marshall & Alexandra Alter, "Hilary Mantel, Prize-Winning Author of Historical Fiction, Dies at 70", New York Times, 23 Sept. 2022. Octavo. Original black boards, spine lettered in gilt, illustrated endpapers. With dust jacket. Foot of spine slightly bumped, lower edges rubbed; flaps of unclipped jacket a little creased at head: a near-fine copy in like jacket.

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.