Birdsong
FAULKS, Sebastian.
Birdsong.
London: Hutchinson, 1993.
8vo., forest green publisher’s boards, lettered in silver to spine; grey endpapers; original unclipped pictorial dust jacket (£14.99 net), pp. [x], 3-407, [i]; a fine copy, with only one or two tiny marks to the lower edge of text block, and one to the title page; jacket also fine, with just a touch of creasing to the upper edge. A beautiful copy, overall, of the author’s most famous work.
First edition, with full number line 1-9.
Birdsong was Faulks’s fourth novel, but is arguably the one which truly launched him to fame. It follows the lives of Stephen Wraysford, a soldier serving on the front lines in Amiens during WWI, and in parallel his granddaughter Elizabeth Benson, following her journey as she tries to trace her grandfather’s history.
“If I am fighting on behalf of anyone, I think it is for those who have died. Not for the living at home. For the dead, over here.”
FAULKS, Sebastian.
Birdsong.
London: Hutchinson, 1993.
8vo., forest green publisher’s boards, lettered in silver to spine; grey endpapers; original unclipped pictorial dust jacket (£14.99 net), pp. [x], 3-407, [i]; a fine copy, with only one or two tiny marks to the lower edge of text block, and one to the title page; jacket also fine, with just a touch of creasing to the upper edge. A beautiful copy, overall, of the author’s most famous work.
First edition, with full number line 1-9.
Birdsong was Faulks’s fourth novel, but is arguably the one which truly launched him to fame. It follows the lives of Stephen Wraysford, a soldier serving on the front lines in Amiens during WWI, and in parallel his granddaughter Elizabeth Benson, following her journey as she tries to trace her grandfather’s history.
“If I am fighting on behalf of anyone, I think it is for those who have died. Not for the living at home. For the dead, over here.”
FAULKS, Sebastian.
Birdsong.
London: Hutchinson, 1993.
8vo., forest green publisher’s boards, lettered in silver to spine; grey endpapers; original unclipped pictorial dust jacket (£14.99 net), pp. [x], 3-407, [i]; a fine copy, with only one or two tiny marks to the lower edge of text block, and one to the title page; jacket also fine, with just a touch of creasing to the upper edge. A beautiful copy, overall, of the author’s most famous work.
First edition, with full number line 1-9.
Birdsong was Faulks’s fourth novel, but is arguably the one which truly launched him to fame. It follows the lives of Stephen Wraysford, a soldier serving on the front lines in Amiens during WWI, and in parallel his granddaughter Elizabeth Benson, following her journey as she tries to trace her grandfather’s history.
“If I am fighting on behalf of anyone, I think it is for those who have died. Not for the living at home. For the dead, over here.”