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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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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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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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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.