LOW-COST COLLECTOR / READING COPIES
For those looking for nice hardbound reading copies of Fowles’ novels (or to fill a hole in their collection at a low cost), the following should fit the bill.
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The Magus–Original Version
Price: $15.00
Little Brown (1965), first book club edition. Very good with ownership information at top of flyleaf; no dust jacket.
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The Magus–Original Version
Price: $50.00
1st British edition. Very good with light rubbing to the corners and some fading to the spine. Interior clean and unmarked. A nice first UK printing of the original version, sans dust jacket.
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The Magus–Original Version
Price: $35.00
World Books, 1967, 1st thus with same dust jacket art as the first edition. Very good with tape repair to inside front hinge, otherwise clean and tight. In a very good plus dust jacket with slight wear to the spine ends and corners. A nice copy.
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The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Price: $20.00
Little Brown (1969), 2nd printing. Fine in a very good-plus dust jacket.
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The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Price: $15.00
International Collector’s Library (1969), 1st thus. Near-fine in green and gold boards as issued.
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The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Price: $12.00
Fourth U.S. printing, gift inscription but book is extremely clean and tight, sans dust jacket.
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The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Price: $18.00
Cape (1970), early reprint. Near-fine in a very good dust jacket with minor wear at the extremities. Identical to the true 1st edition save for review blurbs on the inside flap of the dust jacket.
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Cinderella
Price: $25.00
Little Brown (1974), 1st U.S. edition. Near-fine in a very good dust jacket with some edgewear.
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The Ebony Tower
Price: $15.00
Little Brown (1974), 1st U.S. edition. Near-fine (inscription on flyleaf) in a very good dust jacket with some chips.
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John Fowles–Magus and Moralist
Price: $15.00
Bucknell University Press (1976), 1st edition. Very good in green boards, in a very good dust jacket; a few passages have been underlined or checked. An analysis of Fowles’ fiction through The Ebony Tower.
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Daniel Martin
Price: $15.00
Cape (1977), 1st British edition. Near-fine with owner’s inscription on flyleaf in a very good dust jacket with some rubbing at the edges and foxing to the flaps.
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Daniel Martin
Price: $12.00
Third U.S. printing, near-fine book with bookplate residue on flyleaf in a near-fine dust jacket with slight edgewear.
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Islands
Price: $14.00
Little Brown (1978), 1st U.S. edition. Near-fine (slight wear to boards) sans dust jacket.
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Islands
Price: $15.00
Little Brown (1978), 1st U.S. edition. Very good with slight staining to boards in a very good dust jacket with a couple of noticeable closed tears.
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John Fowles by Barry Olshen
Price: $15.00
Frederick Ungar, 1979, 2nd printing. Near-fine in a near-fine price-clipped dust jacket with one small closed tear. A review of Fowles’ first five novels, plus a bibiography.
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The Tree
Price: $12.00
Little Brown (1979), 1st U.S. edition. Near-fine with signature on flyleaf, sans dust jacket.
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The Tree
Price: $15.00
Aurum Press (1979), 1st British edition. Near-fine sans dust jacket.
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The Book of Ebenezer Le Page
Price: $10.00
Alfred Knopf (1981), 3rd U.S. edition. Near-fine in a very good dust jacket.
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The Screenplay of The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Price: $12.00
Book Club Edition, fine in a fine dust jacket–virtually identical to the true first edition. Harold Pinter’s screenplay for the movie, with a forward by Fowles.
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Mantissa
Price: $10.00
Little Brown (1982), 1st U.S. edition. Very fine in a very good dust jacket with some sunning and a few spots of soiling.
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The Bedside Guardian 32 (1982-83)
Price: $10.00
Introduced by Fowles. Very good (whited-out writing on inside of boards) in a very good dust jacket.
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Mantissa
Price: $12.00
Book Club Edition. Very fine in a fine dust jacket. Virtually identical to the true U.S. first edition.
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A Maggot
Price: $12.00
Little Brown (1985), 1st U.S. edition. Fine in a very good dust jacket with a bit of rubbing.
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A Maggot
Price: $10.00
Little Brown (1985), Book Club. edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket with a bit of rubbing.
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The Tree in Slipcase
Price: $15.00
Nature Company (1994), fine. A reprint of Fowles’ famous essay, with new photographs by William Neill (1st thus). In a near-fine decorative slipcase.
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The Magus
Price: $30.00
Modern Library (1998), 2nd printing. Very fine in a near-fine dust jacket with a slight scratch to the cover.
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Wormholes
Price: $10.00
Cape (1998), 1st edition. Near-fine with a slight binding defect to the rear pastedown, in a near- fine dust jacket with a small scratch to the front panel.