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Sebastian Faulks | First Editions
1953
Sebastian Charles Faulks CBE (born 20 April 1953) is a British novelist, journalist and broadcaster. He is best known for his historical novels set in France – The Girl at the Lion d'Or, Birdsong and Charlotte Gray. He has also published novels with a contemporary setting, most recently A Week in December (2009), and a James Bond continuation novel, Devil May Care (2008), as well as a continuation of P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves series, Jeeves and the Wedding Bells (2013). The Literary Review has said that "Faulks has the rare gift of being popular and literary at the same time", whilst the Sunday Telegraph called him "One of the most impressive novelists of his generation".
To mark the 2008 centenary of Ian Fleming's birth, the late author's estate commissioned Faulks to write a new James Bond novel. Devil May Care became an immediate best-seller in the UK, selling 44,093 hardback copies within 4 days of release.
See below our stock of Sebastian Faulks First Editions and signed copies.
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Birdsong.
London: Vintage Books, 2010. [Modern literature] SIGNED FIRST THUS. Octavo (23 x 15cm), xviii; [2]; 504; [8]. Publisher's dark blue cloth, stamped in white, yellow, and grey, black endpapers, no dust-jacket as issued. Binding very lightly rubbed. Near fine. More about Birdsong
Devil May Care. Sebastain Faulks writing as Ian Fleming
New York, NY: Doubleday, 2008. FIRST EDITION (published simultaneously with the UK first edition). Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.278. Publisher's quarter black cloth over paper-covered boards, stamped in silver to the spine with poppy red endpapers. Complete with pictorial dust-wrapper. A fine, unread copy. More about Devil May Care. Sebastain Faulks writing as Ian Fleming
Devil May Care. Sebastian Faulks writing as Ian Fleming
Penguin 007 2008. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by the author to title page. Publisher's hardback in dustwrapper. A near fine copy. The presentation note reads "To Allan Coffee / With best wishes / Sebastian Faulks / (underline)." Inscribed copies appear to be rarer than 'flat' signed copies in commerce... More about Devil May Care. Sebastian Faulks writing as Ian Fleming
Devil May Care. Sebastian Faulks writing as Ian Fleming
Penguin 007 2008. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by the author to title page with the original book launch flyer (one of 1500 such copies for independent bookshops). Publisher's hardback in dustwrapper. A very fine/as new copy, carefully dark stored by ourselves since publication. An original 007 adventure, written under copyright of... More about Devil May Care. Sebastian Faulks writing as Ian Fleming
Devil May Care. Sebastian Faulks writing as Ian Fleming
London: Penguin 007, 2008. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by the author to title page. Publisher's hardback in dustwrapper. A fine copy. An original 007 adventure, written under copyright of Ian Fleming Publications Ltd to celebrate the author's centenary. More about Devil May Care. Sebastian Faulks writing as Ian Fleming
Devil May Care. Sebastian Faulks writing as Ian Fleming.
London: Michael Joseph / Penguin Books, 2008. LIMITED FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, one of 500 copies issued. Publisher's pictorial hardback cloth binding with all edges silvered in pictorial dustjacket, 'poppy' patterned endpapers. Octavo, pp295 plus [1] note on Faulks, [1] note on Fleming, [10] adverts for previous James... More about Devil May Care. Sebastian Faulks writing as Ian Fleming
Faulks on Fiction. Great British Characters and the Secret Life of the Novel.
London: BBC Books 2011. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Publisher's hardback cloth binding in pictorial dustjacket. A very fine copy, autographed by Sebastian Faulks on the title-page. Includes the essay 'James Bond'; Faulks was the author of the best-selling 007 adventure 'Devil May Care' in 2008. More about Faulks on Fiction. Great British Characters and the Secret Life of the Novel
Human Traces.
London: Hutchinson, 2005. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Royal octavo, pp.vi; 615. Publisher's hardback in dust-wrapper. Very light wear only. A fine copy with author's signature to title page. The story of two pioneering doctors who founded an Alpine pychiatric asylum in the late 19th-century. More about Human Traces
On Green Dolphin Street.
London: Hutchinson, 2001. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6]; 341; [5]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Green endpapers. With the dust-jacket designed by Glenn O'Neill, priced at £16.99. Textblock a little toned to margins/edges. Near fine. More about On Green Dolphin Street
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