Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
$125.00
Fingersmith
New York: Riverhead Books, (2002). First edition, 1st printing. 8vo. 262 pp. Light edge wear, shelf and handling wear. Bottom spine lightly pushed. Some light rubbing and handling wear to gloss. Book is tight, square and firm. Two page corners creased 475 - 477. Trivial shelf wear to edges with rubbing. Scarce.
Dust Jacket: Near Fine
Hardcover: Near Fine
“Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raised her with unusual tenderness, as if Sue were her own. Mrs. Sucksby’s household, with its fussy babies calmed with doses of gin, also hosts a transient family of petty thieves—fingersmiths—for whom this house in the heart of a mean London slum is home.”