A Suitable Boy

Seth, Vikram

ISBN 10: 1897580207 / ISBN 13: 9781897580202

Published by Phoenix House, London, 1993

About this Item

First edition, first printing. Signed and dated by the author on the title page. Red boards with gold text. Green endpapers. No dings, marks or issues except for a smattering of light stains on the top of the text block and tanning beginning in the text block. Boards square and rigid, spine tight, tips pointed. Jacket is not price clipped and now looks adventurous in a shiny mylar dust protector. Packaging suitable for wrapping.

Seller Inventory # 002517

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Suitable Boy
• Publisher: Phoenix House, London
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1897580207
• ISBN 13: 9781897580202
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

Making use of every possible contemporary source-diaries, memoirs, advice books,government papers, almanacs, even the register of Patents - Liza Picard presentsan entralling picture of how life in London was really lived in the decade between 1660 and 1670: the houses and streets, gardens and parks, cooking, clothes and jewellery, cosmetics, hairdressing, housework, laundry and shopping,medicine and dentistry, sex, education, hobbies, etiquette, law and crime, religion andpopular beliefs. The London of 300 years ago is brought wonderfully (and sometimes horrifyingly) to life.

About the Author

Vikram Seth was born in 1952. He trained as an economist and has lived for several years each in England, California, China and India. He is the author of A Suitable Boy, which was an international number one bestseller, An Equal Music and several other novels. He has also written seven volumes of poetry including Beastly Tales and Summer Requiem.