Fowles John Essay (7 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. William Heinemann Ltd London 1985 VG (illus softcover sl rubbed and worn, covers had been plastic protected so bright and crisp, foxing inside covers, some residue of tape marks, inscription on fep).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First American Edition. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. (xxxii), 127 pp, acknowledgments, Essay by John Fowles; Introduction by Ian Jeffrey; The 124 b&w Plates; list of photographs, biographical notes. Not Signed and Numbered: First American Edition, 1985. "Truly good landscape photographs are a little like objets trouvis, natural objects worn and reshaped only by time and the elements; that is, objects worn only by the photographer's age and experience of the right angle, the right light, the right frame, the right mood and moment. Even a totally wild landscape is humanized once it is photographed; but finding that point on the right road, the exact place and the exact time, where the humanizing is almost, so that the final print seems almost a natural object itself, requires the greatest skill of all, and I believe it is a noble one. Fay has that skill." from the Introduction by John Fowles. Not Price Clipped. A thin remainder mark across bottom text block edge. Only the faintest wear to corner tips, else, Pristine. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Size: 4to. Book.…

Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1985. First Edition. Square quarto; publisher's cloth in tan photo-illustrated dust jacket; xxxii,127pp.; chiefly black and white photographs. Corners and spine ends bumped, else Very Good or better. Review copy with slip laid in. Bookplate inscribed and signed by Fowles in 1996 additionally laid in. Spectacular photo-book of Weldon's photographic landscapes of rural Britain and the Scottish Highlands. Signed.…

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1985. Limited First Edition of 1000 copies printed on Parilux paper, according to colophon at rear, numbered 190/920 in pencil. Signed by Fay Godwin and John Fowles at title page. Oblong octavo. 127 pp. Black and white photographs throughout. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Gray-green boards lettered in gilt. Light rubbing and surface scratching to dust jacket. Mild hard-to-categorize musty earthy scent to jacket, possibly from previous owner's plastic covering. Corners of boards gently bumped, and luckily unscented. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.…

SIGNED, square quarto, illus glossy card covers, black & white lettering to spine, xxxii + 127pp, illus, VG (light creasing to cover egdes & corners, light fading to spine, light soiling & chafing to covers, light foxing to page edges).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Quarto, 127pp., illustrated. A fine, crisp copy in the publisher's brown buckram cloth and matching publisher's slipcase. This is number 54 of 150 limited copies SIGNED by Godwin and Fowles on the limitation page.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Quarto, 127pp., illustrated. A fine, crisp copy in the publisher's brown buckram cloth and matching publisher's slipcase. This is number 67 of 150 limited copies SIGNED by Godwin and Fowles on the limitation page.