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Remembering Cruikshank — Signed
Price: $400.00
Princeton University Library Chronicle (1964). An offprint from the Chronicle, one of 50 copies printed, SIGNED BY FOWLES. Fine in stapled wrappers.
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My Recollections of Kafka
Price: $250.00
University of Manitoba Press (1970). An offprint from Mosaic III, one of only 25 copies produced.
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Remembering Cruikshank
Price: $100.00
Princeton University Library Chronicle (1973-74), 1st hard-bound edition. Mint in original tissue wrapper. Introduction by Fowles–one of 750 copies bound thus. A very hard-to-find Fowles item.
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Ourika — Signed
Price: $200.00
W. Thomas Taylor (1977), 1st edition. As new in decorated boards–one of 500 issued. Fowles’ translation of Claire de Dufort’s true narrative of a Senegalese girl who was educated and raised by an aristocratic family during the French Revolution. This was an important source for The French Lieutenant’s Woman. SIGNED BY FOWLES, who contributed an introduction and an epilogue.
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Conditional — Signed Broadside
Price: $150.00
Lord John Press, 1979, 1st edition. A fine copy of this Limited Edition Broadside, bright and clean (suitable for framing). Measures 15" x 21" and is printed on cream parchment-style paper. Number 92 of 150 copies, SIGNED BY JOHN FOWLES at the end of the poem.
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King’s Order for Lyme Siege and a Letter from Charles I Concerning Lyme
Price: $250.00
Lyme Regis Museum (1980), 1st edition, limited to 150 unnumbered copies. Two separate broadsides (as issued): one sheet measures 11 5/8 by 16 1/2 inches and the other 11 3/4 by 7 5/16 inches. Although not issued thus, signed by John Fowles on the "King’s Order for Lyme Siege" broadside. Both broadsides fine.
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Steep Holm Island First Day Cover — Signed
Price: $100.00
Nine inch by six inch decorated envelope featuring four Steep Holm stamps cancelled in 1980 on first day of issue, along with text about the island that Fowles has championed. SIGNED BY FOWLES.
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The Falklands, and a Death Foretold — Signed
Price: $250.00
University of Georgia Review (1982). One of 100 copies in stapled wrappers. The text is an essay inspired by the Falklands War and Fowles’ reading of Chronicle Of A Death Foretold by Gabriel García Marquéz. SIGNED BY FOWLES on the cover.
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Of Memoirs & Magpies — Signed
Price: $225.00
W. Thomas Taylor (1983), 1st U.S. edition. One of 174 numbered copies, fine in tan wrappers with parchment-style paper. Fowles’ outstanding essay on book collecting.
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Of Memoirs & Magpies — Signed
Price: $225.00
W. Thomas Taylor (1983), 1st U.S. edition. One of 174 numbered copies, fine in dark blue wrappers with parchment-style paper. Fowles’ outstanding essay on book collecting.
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Behind the Magus — Signed
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$400.00Original price was: $400.00.$275.00Current price is: $275.00.Colophon Press, 1994. 1st edition. Fine in blue card wrappers with white title label. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED BY FOWLES, this is an essay by Fowles which discusses his teaching days as a young man in Greece, and its influence on The Magus. Snatched up quickly upon publication and now very scarce. Regular price $400.
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Behind the Magus
Price: $90.00
Mike King (1995), 1st thus. One of an edition of 200 copies photocopied from the 1994 first edition, with some changes and corrections to the text. Near-fine in stapled green card covers with a tiny stain at top corner of cover. Although there is no identifying plate or stamp, this copy came from Fowles’ personal library.
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Behind the Magus — Signed
Price: $175.00
Mike King (1995), 1st thus. One of an edition of 200 copies photocopied from the 1994 first edition, with some changes and corrections to the text. Fine in stapled green card covers, SIGNED AND DATED BY FOWLES on the title page.
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The Aristos Mikros — Signed
Price: $300.00
The Yolla Bolly Press (1996). As-new in pictorial wrappers and in the original printed envelope. One of 90 copies printed as a keepsake on the occasion of Fowles’ visit to Stanford University on May 2, and SIGNED BY FOWLES. Scarce.
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Rare BOMC Set
Price: $250.00
A matching 3-volume set featuring reproductions of The Collector, The Magus and The French Lieutenant’s Woman, issued by Book of the Month Club in the late 1990s. All three dust jackets are identical to the original 1st editions, with the exception of TFLW being beige instead of black. All books fine in very fine dust jackets. Very scarce, particularly as a complete set.