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Faulks, Sebastian. A Trick of the Light. The Bodley Head 1984, 1984.

Price: US$324.89 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: A first edition, first printing published by The Bodley Head in 1984. A very good+ book without inscriptions with a little spotting to the page edges. Four lines of notes to the rear endpaper. In a very good unclipped wrapper with a little edge wear

Seller: John Atkinson Books ABA ILAB PBFA, Harrogate, United Kingdom

Faulks, Sebastian. A Trick of the Light. The Bodley Head, 1984.

Price: US$350.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition, first book of author 1984. Not priced clipped. Publication of 203 pages. The dust jacket is a touch edge worn and minor creases. The boards are in near fine condition. The pages are clean and complete. The text is legible. Tightly bound and presented in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa

Faulks, Sebastian. A Trick of the Light. The Bodley Head, London, 1984.

Price: US$375.00 + shipping

Description: pp. 203. 8vo. Black cloth with silver lettering to spine. Negligible shelfwear, internally clean and bright; very good+. In rubbed, unclipped, very good dustjacket. The first printing of the author's first book.

Seller: BISON BOOKS - ABAC/ILAB, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

Faulks, Sebastian. A Trick of the Light [SIGNED BRITISH 1ST/1ST]. The Bodley Head Ltd, London, England, 1984.

Price: US$375.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: A fine copy in black boards with silver, gilt lettering on the spine in a near fine, unclipped dust jacket showing a price of 7.95 pounds net. SIGNED BY SEBASTIAN FAULKS ON A BOOK PLATE AFFIXED TO THE TITLE PAGE. This is a first edition, first printing. Two very minor scratchesto the face of the DJ with a small wrinkle to the bottom front corner, else fine A lovely DJ. The book is fine. This is a tight, lean copy.

Seller: Arthur Harry Fine Books, MISSISSAUGA, ON, Canada

FAULKS Sebastian. A Trick of the Light. The Bodley Head, 1984.

Price: US$389.86 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 204pp. Black cloth boards w silver-gilt title to spine in a dust-jacket. Slight shop-wear to jacket, now in protective cellophane wrapper. Library stamp to ffep and superficial damage where label has been removed. Attractive book-plate to fep. Contents clean, tight and bright, a very nice copy.

Seller: David Kenyon, King's Lynn, United Kingdom

Faulks, Sebastian. A Trick of the Light. The Bodley Head 1984, 1984.

Price: US$389.86 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: A first edition, first printing, published by The Bodley Head in 1984. A fine book without inscriptions, a little rubbing to the spine titles. In a very good+ (or better) dust wrapper with some creasing to the top of the front panel. Small tape repair to the inside of the spine tip. Some rubbing to the corners. A very nice copy indeed.

Seller: John Atkinson Books ABA ILAB PBFA, Harrogate, United Kingdom

Faulks, Sebastian. A Trick of the Light. Bodley Head, 1984.

Price: US$495.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Hardcover in jacket. Tiny bit of browning to top page edges.

Seller: Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA, Austin, MN, U.S.A.

Faulks, Sebastian. A trick of the light. Bodley Head, 1984.

Price: US$611.12 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting.

Seller: GF Books, Inc., Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.

Faulks, Sebastian. A Trick of the Light - interestingly INSCRIBED. Bodley Head, UK, 1984.

Price: US$779.73 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: An INSCRIBED UK first edition, first impression. Interestingly inscribed : To XXX and XXX, Sorry this is not a better book - but I was just learning. With love from Sebastian. The Wrapper : The wrapper on this copy is bright, clean and complete. It is unclipped. Unusually for such a normally fragile jacket, it shows a touch of bruising at the upper edges and spine ends and one or two feint scratches to the front panel. Looks sharp. The Book : The book is square and tight. The boards are clean and unfaded. The corners are sharp. The pages are clean and bright. The closed page edges are unmarked. The binding is tight - no cracked hinges. No remainder marks. There are no previous ownership inscriptions. INSCRIBED by the author to the title page. An attractive and unique copy in a protected wrapper. Paypal accepted.

Seller: Cheltenham Rare Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom

Faulks, Sebastian. A Trick Of The Light : Signed By The Author. The Bodley Head, London, 1984.

Price: US$1234.57 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: The First UK printing published by The Bodley Head, London in 1984. The BOOK is in near Fine condition. Publisher's original black cloth with silver lettering to the spine. The binding remains tight and square, minimally bumped to the top corners. The book has been signed (without dedication) in black ink by the author to the title page. There is a 3 cm diagonal line in black ink at the top of page 161 (also visible for a couple of millimetres at the top of page 163); the ink matches that of the author's signature, so may well have been an accident during the signing session (the book's otherwise near immaculate state would support this theory). The WRAPPER is complete and is in near Fine condition. The top outer right corner is a little rubbed, with some silver visible beneath the black and a tiny closed tear to the paper at the rear at the same spot. There are a few very light scratches visible to the silver portion of the front panel. The wrapper is notorious for being easily rubbed and damaged. This wrapper is in exceptional condition and is protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. This title was never reprinted or issued in a paperback format. In the author's own words : 'There are some okay things in it. The action scenes and some of the descriptions of London. But it's so far from what I went on to write that I think it was a distraction, a kind of throat-clearing'. A very attractive copy of the author's debut novel which is extremely scarce to find as a signed title in such collectible condition. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.

Seller: Ashton Rare Books ABA : PBFA : ILAB, Market Harborough, United Kingdom

Faulks, Sebastian. A Trick of the Light.. The Bodley Head, London, 1984.

Price: US$1750.00 + shipping

Description: First edition of Faulks' first novel. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "Sally - I hope this doesn't give you bad dreams. Love, Sebastian Jan. 89." The recipient, British photojournalist Sally Soames, worked for The Sunday Times from 1968 until 2000 and was highly regarded for her exclusively black and white portraits of many of the most prominent figures of the 20th century including Menachem Begin, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Thatcher, Sean Connery, Rudolf Nureyev, Alec Guinness and Andy Warhol. Soames, who was known to be a warm and personal journalist, performed extensive research on her subjects and developed intimate rapports with them during her process, resulting in striking and revealing portraits. In addition to the several world leaders Soames came to know and photograph, she captured the unique personalities of some of the world’s most gifted authors, poets, and playwrights. She published two books of photographs during her lifetime: Manpower (1987) with text by Robin Morgan and an introduction by Harold Evans and Writers (1995) with a preface by Norman Mailer.ÂFine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Ian Cook. Faulk's first novel, A Trick of the Light, is at the same time an adventure and an examination of loyalties and allegiances both emotional and political. It is a powerful debut by a highly original young novelist.

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.