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Beautiful Books

For the special person in your life who loves the touch, feel and design of a hardcover book. In this Gift Guide selection we’ve brought together illustrated editions, collectors’ editions, graphic novels and much more.

Part of the 2024 Faber Christmas Gift Guide.

At A Glance

Some highlights from the full list of titles below.

9780571365937-wild-thing-gauguin

A vital re-examination of the trailblazing and controversial artist Paul Gauguin, by the prize-winning author of I Am Dynamite!

Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin
Sue Prideaux
£30£25
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Faber Members Edition of Golden Hill by Francis Spufford on a green background

This limited-run Members Edition of Francis Spufford’s Golden Hill is signed by the author on a bespoke design signature page. Join…

Golden Hill (Collectors’ Edition)
Francis Spufford
£30.00
9780571388189

This illustrated edition of a bold novel is one of defiance and bravery. As beautifully crafted as it is heartwrenching, this…

Maurice: YA Illustrated Edition
E. M. Forster
£16.99£14.99
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9780571389902-new-york-trilogy-members-edition

A new edition of Paul Auster’s classic novel has been specially designed for Faber Members. Available exclusively from faber.co.uk. Join Faber…

The New York Trilogy (Members Edition)
Paul Auster
£20.00
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Hardback Max Porter book on a blue background

A special, signed hardcover edition of Max Porter’s first novel. Join Faber Members, for FREE, to buy. Members get 10% off…

Grief Is the Thing with Feathers (Collectors’ Edition)
Max Porter
£30.00
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Cover of Faber Members Edition of Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto

A new edition of Banana Yoshimoto’s beloved cult classic novel has been specially designed for Faber Members. Available exclusively from faber.co.uk.…

Kitchen (Members Edition)
Banana Yoshimoto
£20.00
9780571388578

Both a love song to Italy and a criticism of class and patriarchy in England at the time, this illustrated edition…

A Room With A View: YA Illustrated Edition
E. M. Forster
£16.99£14.99
Limited Edition box of Paul Auster's Baumgartner

A beautiful, signed and limited edition of Paul Auster’s Baumgartner, a tender masterpiece of love, memory and loss from one of…

Baumgartner (Limited Edition)
Paul Auster
£125.00
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9780571391738-jan-morris-conundrum

Our new heritage edition has been exclusively designed and crafted for Faber Members, with reproduced cover artwork based on the 1974…

Conundrum (Members Heritage Edition)
Jan Morris
£14.99
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This special hardcover edition of Sally Rooney’s modern classic has been specially designed for Faber Members. Available exclusively from faber.co.uk. Join…

Normal People (Members Edition)
Sally Rooney
£20.00
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This special edition of Sally Rooney’s critically-acclaimed first book has been specially designed for Faber Members. Available exclusively from faber.co.uk. Join…

Conversations with Friends (Members Edition)
Sally Rooney
£20.00
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9780571377398-war-of-the-worlds

A graphic novel retelling of the classic – Chris Mould takes us to the brink with a diary that records the…

Chris Mould’s War of the Worlds: A Graphic Novel
H. G. Wells
£16.99£14.99
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9780571365937-wild-thing-gauguin

A vital re-examination of the trailblazing and controversial artist Paul Gauguin, by the prize-winning author of I Am Dynamite!

Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin
Sue Prideaux
£30£25
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9780571377640

The complete edition of Sylvia Plath’s prose including much unpublished and previously uncollected material.

The Collected Prose of Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
£35£30
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9780571383252

This volume comprises the full poetic works of one of our wittiest, most beloved writers, and includes many previously uncollected poems.

Wendy Cope: Collected Poems
Wendy Cope
£20£18
9780571374250-Lord-of-the-Flies-The-Graphic-Novel

The world’s first graphic novel of Lord of the Flies — a masterpiece reimagined.

Lord of the Flies: The Graphic Novel
William Golding
£20£18
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9780571382330

From the beloved, bestselling author of Kitchen – five effortlessly beautiful, strange and melancholy stories of heartbreak, hope and trying to see beauty…

Dead-End Memories
Banana Yoshimoto
£12.99£10.99
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9780571392612

With an illuminating new preface by Colm Tóibín, here is Thom Gunn’s extraordinary memorial to love, life and death in the…

The Man With Night Sweats
Thom Gunn
£12.99£10.99
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Cover of Giant

The captivating and affecting graphic novel debut of a major new talent. Deeply moving and tender, with gorgeous ball-point illustrations, Mollie…

Giant (Graphic Novel)
Mollie Ray
£18.99£16.99
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Funny, moving, expansive and ambitious graphic novel from the acclaimed author of The Con Artists and Americana.

Self-Esteem and the End of the World
Luke Healy
£20£18
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9780571390212-when-i-arrived-at-the-castle

A gothic horror story full of mystery and pulsing with blood(lust), perfect for fans of Her Body and Other Parties, Suspiria…

When I Arrived at the Castle
E. M. Carroll
£14.99£12.99
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Blossomise-Simon-Armitage-9780571388417

A glorious collaboration between Simon Armitage, Poet Laureate and the illustrator Angela Harding, celebrating the transformations of Spring.

Blossomise
Simon Armitage
£10£9
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Blossomise-Simon-Armitage-9780571388417

Signed Edition. A glorious collaboration between Simon Armitage, Poet Laureate and the illustrator Angela Harding, celebrating the transformations of Spring.

Blossomise (Signed Edition)
Simon Armitage
£10.00
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A unique collaborative publication which documents the lyrics written by Nobel Prize winning author Kazuo Ishiguro for the platinum selling, Grammy…

The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain: Lyrics for Stacey Kent
Kazuo Ishiguro
£17.99£15.99
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Limited Edition box of Paul Auster's Baumgartner

A beautiful, signed and limited edition of Paul Auster’s Baumgartner, a tender masterpiece of love, memory and loss from one of…

Baumgartner (Limited Edition)
Paul Auster
£125.00
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The Orange provides the perfect introduction to Wendy Cope, one of Britain’s wittiest, best-selling and best-loved poets.

The Orange and other poems
Wendy Cope
£10£9
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A deluxe signed Limited Edition of Sonic Life, the long-awaited memoir by Sonic Youth founding member Thurston Moore.

Sonic Life: A Memoir (Limited Edition)
Thurston Moore
£150.00
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Special 20th Anniversary edition of contemporary-comics-classic, ‘one of the best graphic novels of all time’ (Guardian)

Blankets (20th Anniversary Edition)
Craig Thompson
£25£21
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Ted Hughes’s extraordinary second collection, reissued in its iconic original jacket, to mark twenty-five years since the poet’s death.

Lupercal (Heritage Edition)
Ted Hughes
£14.99£12.99
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This facsimile edition of Djuna Barnes’s iconic classic has been specially designed for Faber Members, recreating the 1950s edition. Available exclusively…

Nightwood (Members Heritage Edition)
Djuna Barnes
£14.99
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