BOOKS FROM JOHN FOWLES' PERSONAL LIBRARY
Note: the following books come from the personal library of John Fowles, and each bears at least one ownership mark: Fowles’ magpie bookplate, his circular blind stamp (John Fowles/Lyme Regis) or his autograph signature.
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The Poetical Works of William Congreve
Price: $80.00
C. Cooke, circa 1800. Very good in half-leather and marbled boards that are a bit rubbed; wear to corners and edges. Price on flyleaf and a few page smudges, otherwise clean and tight. Fowles’ magpie bookplate is on the front pastedown.
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The Wood-Cart; and Other Tales of the South of France
Price: $250.00
By Frances Mary Peard (J. and C. Mozley, 1867, 1st edition). Very good plus in green boards with slight shelf wear; interior clean with just a touch of foxing. A scarce title. Fowles’ magpie bookplate on front pastedown, and his signature and (rather blotchy) inscription "Given me by Peter Straus…Lyme Regis 1997" on flyleaf. Peter Straus was Fowles’ publisher at Picador.
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Le Fond du Sac Recueil de Contes en Vers
Price: $100.00
By Felix Francois Nogaret (Chez Lemonnyer, 1879). Fine in brown boards; interior clean and tight with a trace of soiling. Text in French. Fowles’ magpie bookplate on second blank page, brief note in his hand laid in, and a couple of margin notations in his hand.
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Polygamy: Or, The Mysteries and Crimes of Mormonism
Price: $150.00
By J.H. Beadle (B.B. Russell, 1882, 1st edition). Very good in green and gilt boards with some wear at the spine ends and corners. Hinges slightly tender, with interior clean and unmarked save for a touch of foxing. Fowles’ personal blind stamp at top of first two blank pages. A scarce book.
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The History Teacher’s Miscellany
Price: $90.00
By N.W. Saunders (Goose & Sons, 1922, 1st edition). Near-fine in half-calf and marbled boards with slight shelf wear; interior clean with marbled endpapers. Fowles’ magpie bookplate on the front pastedown.
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Chronicles of Little Gidding
Price: $50.00
By A.L. Maycock (SPCK, 1954, 1st edition). Fine in a near-fine dust jacket with slight shelf wear. With Fowles’ magpie bookplate attached to the flyleaf, below which is Fowles’ typed note: "Shadows of Pilson, especially the later chapters."
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An Indiscretion in the Life of an Heiress
Price: $125.00
By Thomas Hardy (Hutchinson of London, 1976, 1st edition). Near-fine with slight foxing to top edge, in a near-fine dust jacket with a couple of closed edge tears. John Fowles’ personal blind stamp to the top corner of the flyleaf. Thomas Hardy was an inspiration to Fowles and one of his favorite authors.
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The Older Hardy
Price: $125.00
By Robert Gittings (Heinemann, 1978, 1st edition–Review Copy with publisher’s slip laid in). Near-fine with minor mottling to lower corner of rear board, in a fine dust jacket. John Fowles’ personal blind stamp to the top corner of the flyleaf. Thomas Hardy was an inspiration to Fowles and one of his favorite authors.
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A Maggot
Price: $150.00
First U.S. edition of Fowles’ final novel (Little Brown, 1985). Fine in a fine dust jacket, with Fowles’ magpie bookplate on the flyleaf.
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The Nature of Nature
Price: $150.00
Yolla Bolly Press, 1995. First separate appearance of Fowles’ famous essay, one of a Limited Edition of 250 copies. Very fine, with Fowles’ personal blind stamp to the top corner of the flyleaf.
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Catching the Light: Remembering Wallace Stegner
Price: $200.00
Edited by Page and Mary Stegner (Stanford University, 1996), 1st edition. Fine in a near-fine slipcase with a tiny ink mark to the spine; one of 300 copies, this copy noted ‘OS’ (out of series) on the colophon. A tribute to Stegner by fellow writers, environmentalists and family members, with contributers including Ivan Doig, Wendell Berry, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. and Barry Lopez. Fowles’ personal blind stamp to the top corner of second blank page.
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Dorset Bedside Book — A Collection of Prose and Poetry
Price: $75.00
By Desmond Hawkins (Dovecote Press, 1996, 1st edition). Very fine in stiff card wraps, with John Fowles’ personal blind stamp to the top corner of the flyleaf. Fowles spent the majority of his adult life living in Lyme Regis, Dorset.
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Twentieth Century Literature — John Fowles Issue
Price: $100.00
(Hofstra University, 1996). Fine soft-bound scholarly journal with several essays on Fowles work, an interview of Fowles, two poems by Fowles and his essay Behind the Magus. Fowles’ personal blind stamp to the top corner of the title page.
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Virginia Woolf–A Writer’s Life
Price: $50.00
By Lyndall Gordon (Oxford University Press, 2001, 2nd printing). Fine in a near-fine dust jacket with slight crease to corner of rear flap. Signed "John Fowles, 2001" on the flyleaf, with three small sections of text lightly highlighted by Fowles with a small mark in the margin.