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A first UK edition hardback in very good condition for its age. Minor bump to head and tail of book spine. Age tanning to pages. Foxing to edges of pages, ffep and to title page. The dust jacket is complete, still shows the price and is showing some very slight signs of wear to extremities. The rear panel is yellowed.
Volume two of Rayner’s fictional trilogy, The Devil’s Picture-Book.
SYNOPSIS: “In Manchester the sudden rise to wealth and influence of an astute young factory-owner and speculator, Tom Ford, is exciting considerable attention. No one guesses that, as Tom Blackford of the Midlands parish of Brayford, this respectable figure once endured a public flogging – nor that his wealth is gathered only as a means to destroy the men who humiliated his flesh and the woman who betrayed his heart…”
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