"Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book"
— Stephan Mallarme

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.
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 copy but for a small red mark to..... More
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. As new. An original 007 adventure..... More
London: Penguin 007, 2008. [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[viii]; 295; [7], Endmatter; [9], advertisements; [1], blank. Publisher's black hardcovers blocked in silver to spine, poppy design endpapers in red, illustrated dust-jacket priced at £18.99. A fine copy. An original 007 adventure, written under copyright of Glidrose..... More
London: Penguin 007, 2008. [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by the author to title page. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[viii]; 295; [7], Endmatter; [9], advertisements; [1], blank. Publisher's black hardcovers blocked in silver to spine, poppy design endpapers in red, illustrated dust-jacket priced at £18.99. A fine copy, autographed in..... More
London: Penguin 007, 2008. [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[viii]; 295; [7], Endmatter; [9], advertisements; [1], blank. Specially hand-bound in half red calf over matching cloth sides, red endpapers, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands. Illustrated dust-jacket and poppy-patterned endpapers preserved at rear. A fine..... More
London: Penguin 007, 2008. [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[viii]; 295; [7], Endmatter; [9], advertisements; [1], blank. Elegantly hand-bound in half jet black calf over matching cloth sides, contrasting red endpapers, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands. Illustrated dust-jacket and poppy-patterned endpapers preserved at rear..... More
London: Penguin 007, 2008. [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 295 [20]. Elegantly hand-bound in red half calf over matching cloth sides, red endpapers, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands. Illustrated dust-jacket and poppy-patterned endpapers bound in at rear. A fine copy in an attractive..... More
London: Michael Joseph / Penguin Books, 2008. [Spy novel] LIMITED FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, number 345 of 500 copies issued. Publisher's pictorial hardback covers with all edges silvered, 'poppy' patterned endpapers, ribbon page marker. Octavo, pp.295 plus [1] note on Faulks, [1] note on Fleming, [10] adverts for..... More
Penguin Books / Doubleday, in association with Bentley Motors, 2008. [James Bond thriller] FIRST EDITION. LIMITED EDITION, Large Paper copies, number 102 of 300. With a note to this edition, a foreword by the chief designer of Bentley Motors, and a brief biography of Ian Fleming. Superbly bound in full..... More
London: Hutchinson, 2005. [Historical Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 615 [3]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine and maroon endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £17.99. Toning to top edge, and sunning to..... More
London: Hutchinson, 2001. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 341 [5]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, and green endpapers. With the dust-jacket designed by Glenn O'Neill. Gently and evenly toned. Very light general handling; jacket price-clipped. Near fine. A Cold-War story set in the..... More
London: Hutchinson, 2018. [Modern Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 302 [8]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine, and photographic endpapers. With the dust-jacket designed by Glenn O'Neill, priced at £20.00. A fine, as-new copy..... More
London: Penguin / Hodder / Vintage 2009, 2012, 2014. [Spy Fiction] Three volumes, octavo (20 x 13cm). FIRST UK PAPERBACK EDITIONS, with a strikeline 10 through to 1. A group of three recent James Bond paperbacks. Publisher's photographic card covers, two with embossed titles. Gently read, minor toning to paper..... More
Doubleday, 2008. Octavo. Original black paper-backed boards, spine lettered in silver, red endpapers. With dust jacket. A fine copy. First US edition, first printing. Published simultaneously with the first UK edition. This copy is from the significant Ian Fleming collection of Martin Schøyen (b.1940), with his bookplate. Schøyen's private collection..... More
Penguin 007 in association with Bentley Motors, 2008. Large octavo. Original brown leather covers with red stitching, spine and front board lettered and blocked in silver, edges red, red leather doublures, black endpapers, black silk bookmarker. With pewter car model housed within contents. Housed in clear Perspex slipcase. A fine..... More
London: Times Newspapers Ltd., 2008. [Magazine article] '007 Reborn' appears on pages 32-43, being the first pre-book-form extract from 'Devil May Care'. Newspaper supplement format, colour illustrated. Pp.90. Minor handling, fine. The book-form edition was published on Fleming's 100th birthday, 28th May 2008. This therefore represents the FIRST APPEARANCE IN..... More