The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel — Exclusive Independent Bookshop Ed

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The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel — Exclusive Independent Bookshop Ed

Name: The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel — Exclusive Independent Bookshop Ed
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The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel — First Edition, Exclusive Independent Bookshop Edition

Publication: London, Fourth Estate, 2020

Formatting: 8vo, pp. 912.

Condition Report: Very Good. The vibrant blue cloth boards remain unbowed and strikingly bright, featuring sharply squared corners and fully intact, unoxidised gilt tooling to the spine. The binding is remarkably tight and square, suggesting the volume is unread. The text block is predominantly clean and the pages remain crisp; however, there is a small black marker remainder line near the spine-fold on the bottom text-block edge, alongside the faintest touch of uniform age-toning to the paper stock. The dust jacket is unclipped, highly glossy, and completely free of chips or significant creases, exhibiting only very trivial micro-rubbing to the extreme corner tips.

Catalogue Note: This is the First Edition, First Impression of Hilary Mantel's The Mirror & the Light, published by Fourth Estate in 2020. Notably, this is the "Exclusive Independent Bookshop Edition," which was strictly produced for distribution to independent UK retailers. This special variant is easily distinguished by its bespoke vibrant blue cloth boards (as opposed to the standard edition's black binding) and the silver promotional roundel affixed to the front panel of the dust jacket.

The copyright page displays the full number line "1", confirming its status as a true first printing. While unsigned copies of this specific Independent Bookshop Edition do not command the exorbitant premiums of the signed limited variants, they remain much scarcer in the secondary market compared to the standard retail first edition.

Concluding one of the most celebrated trilogies in modern historical fiction, The Mirror & the Light traces the final, precarious years of Thomas Cromwell's life. Eight years in the making, Hilary Mantel’s monumental masterpiece thrusts the reader into the bloody and treacherous climax of Henry VIII's reign. With Anne Boleyn dead and the king’s mercurial favour shifting to Jane Seymour, Cromwell, a man of common birth propelled by sheer intellect and ruthless ambition, must navigate the shifting sands of royal whims, foreign threats, and aristocratic vengeance. As the shadow of the executioner’s axe looms ever closer, Mantel offers a defining portrait of a modern nation forging itself through conflict, predator and prey, and a common man’s desperate battle against an unforgiving monarchy.

Book Condition: Very Good

Book Authors: Hilary Mantel

Book Publisher: Fourth Estate

Book Language: English

Narrative Type: Fiction

Genre: Historical Fiction

Book edition: First Edition

Signed: No

Book Pages: 912

Book Publication Year: 2020

Book Publication Date:

Book Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: N/A

Book Series: Wolf Hall

Country/region of manufacture: Croydon, United Kingdom

Book Dimensions:

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