Giving Up Ghost by Hilary Mantel, First Edition (10 results)

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Condition: Good. First Edition. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st thus.

PAPERBACK, cover price $18.00, attractive copy, covers slightly curled outwards but appears little used if at all. MANTEL, HILARY. Giving up the ghost: a memoir. New York: Picador, 2004, later printing number line ending in 17 of the First Picador edition, 223pp., . "Giving Up the Ghost opens in 1955 with 'A Second Home', in which Mantel describes the death of her stepfather, a death which leaves her deeply troubled by the unresolved events of childhood. 'Now Geoffrey Don't Torment Her' begins in typical, gripping Mantel fashion: 'Two of my relatives have died by fire.' Set during the 1950s, it takes the reader into the muffled consciousness of her early childhood, culminating with the birth of a younger brother and the strange candlelit ceremony of her mother's 'churching'. Mantel then moves to a haunted house and mysteriously gains a stepfather. When she is almost eleven, her family flee the gossips and the ghosts, and resolve to start a new life. Teenage perplexity displaces childhood dreams of Arthurian knights as her home turns into a place where the keeping of secrets has become a way of life. Convent school provides a certain sanctuary, with tacit assistance from the fearsome 'Top Nun'. After making good her escape to university and her own marriage, the author reveals how, through medical misunderstanding and neglect, she came to be childless, and how the ghosts of the unborn, like chances missed of pages unturned, have come to haunt her life as a writer.". 9780312423629 ISBN 0312423624.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine Book & Jacket, 1st ed US 2nd pt, in a protective cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st edition/1st impression. With slight lean and gift inscription on front end paper in not price clipped dust jacket, which is now protected by a removable transparent wrapper.

Henry Holt and Company, New York. 2003. First edition and first printing in the US. Hardback with DW. Wrapper slightly worn. Ownership signature to front end paper. A nice clean copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Very good copy.

Fourth Estate. 2003. First edition. First impression. Hardback in DW. PRESENTATION COPY FROM AUTHOR, "To Linda, With all my good wishes. Hilary Mantel." A huge collection of relevant newspaper cuttings loosley inserted to rear which have very slightly stretched the binding otherwise a fine copy in wrapper.

London: Fourth Estate, 2003. Small 8vo., cream publisher's boards, lettered in black to spine; burnt orange endpapers; in the original unclipped jacket (£16.99); fine, by all accounts. First edition, with full number line 1-10. A 'wry, shocking and beautifully written' autobiography by this booker-prize winning author.