Human Traces-Sebastian Faulks, 9780091794552

Human Traces (Signed First Printing) \nFaulks, Sebastian. \n\nPublished by Hutchinson, London, 2005. Signed by the Author direct to the title page, without inscription. First Edition and impression. Bound in the original publisher's hardcover boards, titled in gilt to the spine. Spine ends with bumping, binding otherwise in good order. Internally the block is sound, the pages have a little light age toning, but generally clean and tight. Jacket unclipped with creasing to the edges, a little chipping to the corner. Signed Copy sticker from Ottakar's to the front cover. Vg-/Vg-.   \nFrom the Blurb - Jacques Rebi\u00E8re and Thomas Midwinter, both sixteen when the story starts in 1876, come from different countries and contrasting families. They are united by an ambition to understand how the mind works and whether madness is the price we pay for being human.As psychiatrists, their quest takes them from the squalor of the Victorian lunatic asylum to the crowded lectu.