Trick by Frayn Michael, Signed (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. UK hardback first impression, SIGNED at title page, with 1989 date and ICA location. Has event ticket for an ICA lunch laid in. Fine in fine jacket. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Signed by the Author on the title page. First Printing. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Near FINE hardback in Near FINE dustwrapper. 1989 Viking, First Edition, First Printing. SIGNED & inscribed by the author on title page to Shirley Hughes (children's illustrator) "To Shirley, with love from a slightly disconcerted (?) author, Michael, ICA 12 October 1989". Age-tanning to page edges and slightly to wrapper. Wrapper has hint of sunning to red author on spine. NB: REGRETTABLY NOT AVAILABLE TO SEND TO EU COUNTRIES. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. David Hughes (illustrator). 1st Edition. ** SIGNED, ORIGINAL RELEASE LETTER & PUBLICATION DATE CARD PROVENANCE, 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINTING ** Hardcover, signed flat with original release letter and seperate publication date card provenance, first edition, full number line. Fine copy with a dust jacket that is also Fine. Book is tight, bright, and clean. Binding and hinges are strong, solid square boards and spine, pages lay undisturbed are bright and clean with 4 sharp page corners. Signed by the author on title page without dedication, no other inscriptions and no owner's name, 1st impression, unread, not price clipped, no stickers. Slight toning to the extremities of the outer boards. The dustjacket is protected in a removable Brodart mylar sleeve. This copy was purchased new and only had one owner. Enjoy! Signed by Author(s).

First edition of of Frayn's reverential novel. Octavo, original boards. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Sally with best wishes from Michael Frayn 15 August 1989." 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 worldâs 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. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket illustrations by David Hughes. Frayn's The Trick of It is a comic and painful voyage of exploration into the creative process and the feelings it arouses in others. The humble academic disciple finds himself admitted to his subject's life, and off to his oldest friend go a series of dispatches - by turns awed and patronizing, reverential and jealous, disingenuous and appallingly frank.