Collector by Fowles John, First Edition (168 results)

Condition: Good. 1964. First Edition Thus. 255 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages are heavily tanned. Mild cracking to front hinge, however binding remains firm. Mild water staining to pages throughout. Previous owner's inscription to reverse of front cover. Paper cover has mild edge wear with mild corner curling. Notable creasing to covers and spine. Notable scratching and marking to covers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition fourth impression hardback and jacket. Condition: very good condition hardback in good jacket. No inscriptions. Cloth creasing to head and tail of cover spine, with small white (paint?) mark to head of spine. Moderate tanning and light edge wear to jacket, with several small edge tears, including one small open tear to head of spine. Several small white (paint?) marks to jacket, with one mark approx. 1 by 1 inch to head of jacket spine. - - - General information: please email for any more information or condition photos. There may be other minor faults not included here, but this description should include all important points and convey accurately the overall condition of the book(s) or other item. We are happy to give a more detailed description (by volume where applicable) on request. Please note that if there is a photo next to the listing which is titled 'Stock Photo', this is a generic photo provided by abe and not a photo of the actual book listed. The design of the covers and binding may be the same or may differ substantially. Posted next day (Mon-Fri) from the UK. We normally post by Royal Mail 1st class within the UK, but may use a slower service for books over 1kg or multiple orders or a tracked service for higher value orders. We normally post by tracked mail for overseas deliveries, and may request additional postage (at cost) for heavier books (buyers always have the option to cancel the order if we do so).

Condition: New. 2004. 01st Edition. Paperback. Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs. He is obsessed with a beautiful stranger, the art student Miranda. When he wins the pools he buys a remote Sussex house and calmly abducts Miranda, believing she will grow to love him in time. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 210. . . . . .

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Dell Books No.1335, first mass market paperback edition and the basis for the film of the same name; a haunting novel, this copy is Near Fine with just the lightest of wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First American Edition. John Fowles First Book And The First American Edition. In Pristine Condition, No Marks Or Inscriptions. Orange Covered Boards With Maroon Panel On The Spine With Gilt Title Inset. Very Minor Bump To Tail Of Spine. The Dj Is Complete, Not Priced, Illustrated With A Picture Of A Butterfly , Key And Lock Of Hair. The Spine Is Very Slightly Sunned And A Very Minor Bump To Spine Tail But Otherwise In Near Fine Condition. A Lovely First!.

Paperback. Condition: Good. 7th Printing. Pages tanned with age. Good reading copy. Size: Approx 4½ " Wide - 7" Tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition, stated. Hardbound in unclipped dust jacket. Minor foxing to end pages. Minor wear & tears to dust jacket edges & corners, otherwise very good.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Fifth Impression or later. Size: Small Octavo. 283 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Pages lightly tanned throughout. Edges browned slightly. A fine unread copy. This book is available and ready to be shipped. Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs. A chance pools win enables him to capture the art student Miranda and keep her in the cellar of the Sussex house he has bought with the windfall. The situation is seen first from the collectors point of view- he thinks the chloroform pad no more vicious than his butterfly net, and patiently waits for the barriers of class and taste that inhibit their love to break down in the limbo of their isolation. She, the creator, desperate for her freedom, tries to be understanding but cannot banish her comtempt for everything anti-life that the collector stands for. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Fiction; Contemporary Fiction; Britain/UK; Modern; ISBN: 009974371x. ISBN/EAN: 9780099743712. Pictures are of actual item and are not stock images Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 9341.

Condition: Near Fine. Illustrated (illustrator). First Edition. First Edition. Original glossing wrappers, printed in black, cover photograph of Marguerite A. Cohn. Contains an important bibliographical checklist for John Fowles. Near fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book has bump to outer lower corners of boards and a fingernail size stain on bottom edge of front board, otherwise Fine, clean and tight with no markings in book. Jacket has wear to edges with chipping at spine ends and toning to rear panel. Price has been cut out with scissors.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Previous owner inscription and couple name stamps to front endpaper. Dark tape repairs to back of jacket at spine ends. Couple small chips to jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First edition. 1963 thriller novel by English author John Fowles, in his literary debut with one of literature's most evil characters. Its plot follows a lonely young man who kidnaps a female art student in London and holds her captive in the cellar of his rural farmhouse. Dust jacket is price-clipped and has some edge wear. Pages are as new without any marks. First American printing. 6" - 8¼". book.

First Edition. Near fine in original wrappers. Rubber stamp and three holes punched in the left margin. One of the first reviews of Fowles' first novel.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Stated First American Edition. Orange cloth. Richly decorated dust jacket. 8vo. 305 pages. Near fine. Boards show no obvious wear. Pages are clean and very tight, like new. DJ would be near fine as it has no obvious edgewear but does have a waterstain on the back cover and a small scrape on the front cover, so is Good Minus. John Robert Fowles (1926 - 2005) was an English novelist of international stature, critically positioned between modernism and postmodernism. His work reflects the influence of Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, among others.

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. First U.S. edition of the author's first book, very good in a very good dust jacket. The book has a small patch of discoloration on the front board and light edgewear. The price clipped jacket has some edgewear and light creasing and soiling on rear panel. A tiny chip and some creasing are in evidence at the top of spine, and a small closed tear is near the middle of the spine.

8vo., First Edition thus; red boards, faux-vellum back lettered in gilt, blue top (mildly spotted), a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published a year after Jonathan Cape's first edition. A bright copy of the first RS edition of Fowles' first book and one of the most important novels of the Sixties. The basis of William Wyler's movie (1965) starring Terence Stamp and Samantha Eggar.

Milano, Rizzoli, collana «La Scala», 1964 (finito di stampare il 25 luglio), Prima edizione italiana. Tela leggermente ingiallita, carte e tagli normalmente bruniti e marginale fioritura alle prime carte. Nel complesso ottimo esemplare. Contiene scheda editoriale. Primo romanzo dello scrittore inglese John Robert Fowles, esponente di spicco del postmodernismo britannico, originariamente pubblicato nel 1963 e qui presentato nella prima edizione italiana Rizzoli del 1964, con la traduzione di Vincenzo Abrate. Storia di un'ossessione e dei frutti terribili della repressione - prima di tutto sessuale in chiave freudiana - e del suo rovescio, ovvero la liberazione incontrollata degli istinti con la conseguente cieca volontà di dominio sugli altri, raccontata da due prospettive opposte: quella del carnefice - il protagonista insignificante e impacciato che si fa sequestratore della donna "amata" - e quella della vittima, con il suo mondo e il suo desiderio di vivere distrutti dalla bramosia di un quasi sconosciuto che - incurante di ciò che quella ragazza vuole e sogna - in lei vede tanto un oggetto d'amore quanto un modello delle qualità e delle capacità che lui non ha, entrambi da conquistare o da annichilire con la violenza. in 8°, tela illustrata (illustrazione Dagrada) con titoli neri al piatto e neri e bianchi al dorso, pp. 332 [6]. Prima edizione italiana. Tela leggermente ingiallita, carte e tagli normalmente bruniti e marginale fioritura alle prime carte. Nel complesso ottimo esemplare. Contiene scheda editoriale. tela illustrata (illustrazione Dagrada) con titoli neri al piatto e neri e bianchi al dorso,

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Minus. First U.S. Edition. VG/VG-. Very Good Copy of the First U.S. Edition with minor bumping at top and bottom of spine. Dust Jacket is Very Good Minus with some soiling and some crimping at top of spine. Location: T15A.

Soft Cover. First Edition. Pressbook used to promote the release of the movie, in fine condition. Twelve pages (11" by 17") featuring articles, reviews, ads, and black & white reproductions of the various versions of the movie poster. We have the largest selection of John Fowles first editions for sale in the world--please inquire about our multiple-purchase discounts, or if you need assistance with building a Fowles collection.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Book VERY GOOD evidence of erasure on front fly leaf; dust jacket NEAR FINE evidence of sticker removal on front flap. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First American Edition. First Edition stated, but a club. A Very Fine copy in dull orange paper covered boards, with no topstain to textblock, in a Very Fine price-clipped dustwrapper. This short novel was Fowles' first published, though The Magus, a novel he'd been working on for several years, would be published later. The movie adaptation starred Terence Stamp and Samantha Eggar. Q12769.

Hard Cover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. First Edition. Dustwrapper has one tiny chip to top of front panel and slight edgewear. Book shows slight staining to front panel. First edition of of the author's first book. Fowles went on to write "The Magus", "The French Lieutenant's Woman" and other notable novels.

Full-Leather. Condition: Fine. Luzak, Dennis (illustrator). First Edition, Limited. Limited Edition. Signed by John Fowles on the second preliminary page at front. Full brown leather with gilt titles and decorations; all edges gilt; raised bands; silk moire endpapers; ribbon page marker. This is the higher quality full leather binding published by The Franklin Library. BB. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First American edition. A very good+ book that has been clipped on the second blank page at the front. Former owner's name written on the front flyleaf. Slight foxing on blank page at front as well. Dust jacket has been price clipped otherwise a very good bright clean jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The author's first book. Stated first American edition. Very good in a very good (moderate shelf wear and aging) dust jacket. ; 305 pages.

1st ed. thus hardback with dust jacket Nice copy octavo 248pp., Book Club edition. Trifling wear to edges of unclipped Tom Adams dust jacket o/w nice copy.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First American Edition. First American Edition, First Printing, bound in orange cloth with yellow endpapers in the Original dust jacket; a near fine copy with minor bumping to head and heel of spine, and a very nice dust jacket with minor chipping and light rubbing at top of spine. An attractive copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First American edition of Fowles' first book. Very good with light wear and a few small tears to edges, corners, and spine ends.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. First Thus. Octavo. 6 x 9 in. 295 in. Near fine in original leather with gilt. Signed by Fowles.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First American edition stated. Book club edition with an eleven page booklet "A New Introduction by Stephen King" (1989) laid in. 5 3/4 x 8 1/4 Book; mild push to top spine else fine, as new, unread. Dust jacket has minor bumping to mostly spine ends. Color sharp. Under archival quality mylar cover. Booklet near fine with slight soiling to rear wrapper. Photos upon request. Packed well and shipped in a sturdy box.