This is a very interesting book. This book is a copy of the First American Edition which was published in 1995 by Crown Publishers, Inc., New York. The book measures 6 5/8 inches by 9 3/8 inches and contains x, 406 pages. The dust jacket is in very good condition. The cover consists of paper covered hard boards and a cloth covered spine. The cover shows no signs of wear to speak of. The title is in gilt on the spine. The spine is tight and the hinges are strong. The pages show no signs of rips. There is a small dot on the top edges of the pages (remainder?). Exceptions noted, the overall condition of this book itself is very good plus.

Contents:

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction

1. Isaac’s Library 1804-24
2. Vivian Grey 1824-6
3. Nervous Breakdown 1826-30
4. The Great Asian Mystery 1830-1
5. ‘I am for myself’ 1832-4
6. Lord Lyndhurst’s Friend 1834-6
7. Scrapes with Count D’Orsay 1839-42
8. Mary Anne 1837-9
9. No Office from Peel 1839-42
10. Sidnoia and Young England 1842-4
11. ‘The Great Object of my Political Life’ 1844-5
12. Conclusion

Appendix
Notes and Sources
Bibliography
Index

Henrietta Sykes by Chalon. Disraeli thought this portrait marvelous.

Lyndhurst by Maclies, 1836. ‘The lower part of his countenance betrayed the deficiencies of his character, a want of high purpose and some sensual attributes.

Mary Anne Disraeli by Chalon, 1840. Mutton dressed as lamb.

Jew d’Espirit Disraeli’s marriage portrait by Chalon, looking a youthful 34.

1 Grosvenor Gate (today 93 Park Lane). Disraeli’s London house after his marriage.

Bradenham House, High Wycombe. The D’Israeli family home, 1829-1949.

Excerpt – Dust Jacket:
Young Disraeli is the first volume of a lively, frank, and comprehensive biography of Benjamin Disraeli – the British statesman and author who overcame his status as an outsider in English society to become one of the most brilliant and powerful figures in Victorian politics.

Drawing on Disraeli’s recently published letters and his neglected early novels, as well as his prolific political propaganda, epic poetry, and journalism, this sparkling and original book takes a fresh and sympathetic look at the Tory leader’s Romantic youth-a period filled with bursts of creative energy that alternated with bouts of depression and indolence. Raised in Jewish, literary Bloomsbury by his remarkable father, Isaac, Disraeli’s financial speculations lost him a fortune he did not possess before he was twenty-one, and his hot and hurried novel Vivian Grey catapulted him to precocious celebrity and infamy…
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