Magus by Fowles John, Signed (26 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st reprint of the revised edition of the 1st. SIGNED COPY in near fine price clipped dust jacket save fading on the spine, which is now protected by a removable transparent wrapper. Signed by JF on the title page. There is a bookplate on the front end papers with previous owner's name. Clean copy with mild edge wear foxing. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Signed copy of the Revised (expanded) edition of this notable 1960s novel that was a pioneering work of postmodernism by the one of most acclaimed post World War II British novelists, John Fowles. The tale of mind games besetting a British school teacher on a Greek Island has a rather postmodernish place in the pop culture memory. It was the source book for a late 1960 films starring Michael Caine as the mindgamed teacher. As if it weren't enough for Caine and co-star Candace Bergen to pan their own film, a high profile comic actor reportedly declared that perched on the top tier of his list of life regrets was viewing "The Magus." The epic sneer is attributed to Peter Sellars as often it's attributed to Woody Allen and perhaps only Maurice Conchis knows the true identity of the meanie. Or did Conchis craft the barb himself to further needle Nicholas Urfe? Signed and dated by John Fowles on the title page. Black cloth, 656 pages. Second printing of this edition. The book has some fading on the top page edge and tanning on the side and bottom page edges. One interior page is crinkled. The dust jacket is price clipped and has edge wear including a short tear on the top page edge. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fowles, John. The Magus. Boston: Little, Brown and Company (1965). 1st Edition (stated). 9 ½ x 6 ¼. 582 pp. Green cloth lettered in brown. Color illustrated priced ($7.95) dust jacket. A delicate scratch on the top text block. The bottom of two pages have a tiny crinkle at the gutter. Not particularly noticeable but needs to be mentioned. Corners and spine ends not bumped, not worn. Binding tight, contents clean. The jacket has no tears, chips or wear. John Fowles signature and date (1996) on a small paper laid in. Near Fine copy in Fine Dust Jacket. Shipped in a well-padded box. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good plus. First Edition. Cape (1966), 1st British edition. Near-fine with light shelf wear and a touch of foxing to fore-edge, otherwise clean and unmarked. In a very good plus dust jacket (price intact) with some wear at the spine ends and corners. SIGNED BY JOHN FOWLES on the title page. Scarce signed. We have the largest selection of John Fowles first editions for sale in the world--please inquire about multiple-purchase discounts, or if you need assistance with building a Fowles collection. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A fine copy, bright and clean inside and out with the barest trace of sunning to the top edge of the rear board. In a very good plus dust jacket ($6.95 price intact) with slight rubbing at the spine ends and corners, and a small closed tear to the spine--about a third of the way down--that is virtually invisible from the exterior. INSCRIBED BY JOHN FOWLES on November 17, 1969 to George Christy, former reviewer and society columnist for The Hollywood Reporter. According to Fowles' journals, he was in Los Angeles at that time on his U.S. publicity tour for The French Lieutenant's Woman, which had been published eight days earlier. An excellent signed copy with a nice association. 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. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition this, first and only printing. Photographic off-print of the first (Colophon Press) edition for the author's use with some differences: one of 200 thus. Signed and dated (John Fowles / Lyme Regis / 1997) by the author. Fine in green printed wrappers. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Fine. First Printing of This Edition. Fine in green card wrappers. An offset reproduction of the earlier limited edition with a textual revisions by Fowles. Signed by Fowles on the title-page. Signed by Author.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Edition 1994. As issued by the publisher in fine blue card wrappers with a white paper label. A limited edition of 232 copies and signed by the author to the title page. This being number 191. Book is fine and bright. Contents good. More images can be taken upon request. Ref A1234. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Burckhardt, Marc (illustrator). First Edition Thus. First edition thus, slicpased hardcover sealed in shrink wrap, Artist's Edition limited to 750 copies signed by Burckhardt, and accompanied by the publisher's bookmark. The book and dust jacket have a mild bump at the tail of the spine, but are otherwise clean and unopened. A Near Fine copy in a like dust jacket, and housed in a sharp, like slipcase. Additional images are available upon request.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Second edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Rubber stamp on the front fly: "Signed for a member of the New Fiction Society" and Signed by Fowles beneath the stamp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. Revised edition. Revised edition, first impression. Signed presentation copy from the author. 8vo. Original black boards lettered in gilt to spine. Dust-jacket. The revised edition of Fowles' masterpiece, a psychological novel about a young Englishman entangled in the manipulations of a mysterious Greek island recluse. Inscribed from the author. A fine copy in near fine jacket. Provenance: Jennie Vine (inscribed to her from the author and with her striginistic bookplate). Signed. Book.

Condition: Fine. First Edition. Fine in clue card wrappers with a white paper label. One of 200 numbered copies signed by Fowles. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Top edge very slightly marked, fore-edge a little spotted and thumbed, dustwrapper (by Tom Adams) slightly frayed at head and tail of spine, and with very mild wear at corners, front flap a little marked. First UK edition (first published by Little, Brown 1965 [but January 1966]), inscribed by the author on the title-page, with no signature, "Reg Gadney with sincerest good wishes Lyme Regis Sunday, 14.3.99". "Even so powerful a novel as The Collector does not prepare us for the manifold, compulsive fascination of John Fowles's The Magus . . ." (publisher's blurb). For some readers, it is Fowles's best book. For Fowles himself, it was "the first one I wrote [and] still, I think, excites me more than the others. It still slightly puzzles me how I could have written it." He issued a revised version in 1977. Reg Gadney, himself a novelist, was the second husband of Fay Maschler, first wife of John Fowles's editor at Cape, Tom Maschler. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Limited Edition. One of 250 numbered copies signed by Christopher Priest, Eileen Warburton and Marc Burckhardt. Bound in leather backed cloth in a traycase. Unmarked. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. As New in an As New custom cloth covered slipcase. With the bookmark and wooden "Le Bateleur" Tarot card. #233/250 copies of the Numbered Edition which sold out shortly after it was released. SIGNED by the illustrator and the writers of the new exclusive introduction and afterword. In a quarter leather binding with European bookcloth over boards. Art print inset into the gold foil blocked front cover. Set in Monotype Digital Fournier and printed offset on Mohawk Via Vallum paper. The endsheets were designed for this edition and printed letterpress on Hahnemuhle Bugra Archive. Another stunning title from Suntup Editions. We grade our books conservatively to insure your satisfaction. Additional photos available on request. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Marc Burckhardt (illustrator). 1st Edition. BRAND NEW and FACTORY-SEALED.SIGNED By: Christopher Priest, Eileen Warburton and Marc Burckhardt. The Numbered edition of 250 copies is a quarter leather binding with cloth over the boards. The cover is stamped in gold foil and features an art print inset into the front cover. Endsheets are custom designed for this edition and are printed letterpress on Hahnemühle Bugra Archive. The edition includes a color fold-out featuring the Artist edition dust jacket illustration, as well as a reproduction of the first edition jacket art by Tom Adams. It is printed offset on Mohawk Via Vellum paper and is housed in a cloth covered clamshell enclosure with a leather spine label. This edition is signed by Christopher Priest, Eileen Warburton and Marc Burckhardt. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. None (illustrator). A signed copy of the revised edition of John Fowles's celebrated postmodern novel, reviewed by the Sunday Times as a 'deliciously toothsome celebration of wanton story-telling'. The first impression of the revised edition of Fowles's novel, published eleven years after the first edition. Flat signed by Fowles to the title pageIn the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.'The Magus' is John Fowles's postmodern novel about Nicholas Urfe, a young man who is teaching English on a small Greek island and becomes embroiled in the psychological illusions of a master trickster.Considered an example of metafiction, this was Fowles first written novel, but his third to be published.A lovely signed work by Fowles, the renowned British novelist of works positioned between modernism and postmodernism, best known for 'The French Lieutenant's Woman', 'A Maggot', and 'The Collector'. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Minor bumping to back strip head and tail, otherwise externally excellent. Bookseller's label to front pastedown. Dust wrapper lightly sunned to back strip, with light spotting to reverse of rear wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages lightly age toned to perimeters due to paper type, as is common with this edition. Near Fine. signed by author. book.

First edition of the author's most well-known work. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Signed by John Fowles on a page bound in. In fine condition. The Magus was published by in the United Kingdom in 1966 and in the United States by Little, Brown and Company the same year. An instant success, the Sunday Telegraph called it a major work of mounting tensions in which the human mind is the guinea-pig. Mr Fowles has taken a big swing at a difficult subject and his hits.are on the bull's eye'." The Magus was quickly adapted into film starring Michael Cain, a "deliciously toothsome celebration of wanton story-telling. Before one quite realises what is happenings, one finds oneself no less avid for meanings and no less starving amid a plethora of clues than is Nicholas himself" (Sunday Times). It was named by Modern Library as one of the 100 Greatest Novels of the twentieth century, and in 2003, was listed at number 67 on the BBC's survey The Big Read.

First American edition, preceding the British edition by one year of the author's most well-known work. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, bookplate of famed collector Rolland Comstock. Jacket painting by Tom Adams. Housed in a custom half morocco case. The Sunday Telegraph called The Magus a major work of mounting tensions in which the human mind is the guinea-pig. Mr. Fowles has taken a big swing at a difficult subject and his hits.are on the bull's eye'." The Magus was quickly adapted into film starring Michael Cain, a "deliciously toothsome celebration of wanton story-telling. Before one quite realises what is happenings, one finds oneself no less avid for meanings and no less starving amid a plethora of clues than is Nicholas himself" (Sunday Times). It was named by Modern Library as one of the 100 Greatest Novels of the twentieth century, and in 2003, and was listed at number 67 on the BBC's survey The Big Read.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). A smart signed second edition copy of The Magus, a revised edition. A second, revised edition of The Magus by John Fowles.Signed by the author to the half title page.The Magus is a postmodern novel by British author John Fowles. the novel tells the story of Nicholas Urfe, a young British graduate who is teaching English on a small Greek island.A towering novel of entertainment and storytelling.John Fowles was an English novelist of international renown.In the original clipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, lovely. Previous owner inscription to the front free endpaper. Signed by the author to the half title page. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. In the original clipped dust wrapper which is very smart with some fading to the spine and bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Very Good Indeed. signed by author. book.

hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. First Revised. First UK edition of the Revised version, signed by the author on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.

First Edition. THE MAGUS, Little, Brown, 1965, first edition, just about fine in vg+ or better full color wraparound pictorial dust-wrapper with some slight wear and tear. The authors second and most remarkable novel. A nice copy. Bookplate SIGNED by the author laid in.

Condition: As New. First Edition. First edition. Small quarto, origina blue wrappers, paper label on front cover. One of 200 copies, numbered, signed by John Fowles. As new. This title was later rerpinted in green wrappers. A fine press book, beautifully done by the Colophon Press in London. There were 26 copies bound in goatskin and 6 copies for private distribution. A scarce title by Fowles, in which he describes the genesis and influences in the writing of The Magus. Signed by Author.

First UK edition, signed by the author on the title page. The US edition was published by Little Brown a few months earlier, in January 1966. The stunning jacket design is by the highly acclaimed artist Tom Adams. The Magus was the first novel written by Fowles (albeit the third he published). A self-conscious homage to Shakespeare's The Tempest, the story masterfully charts the sinister tension between reality and fantasy in the experience of its protagonist. Octavo. Original purple and monochrome patterned paper boards, spine lettered in gilt, top edge purple. With dust jacket. Spine lightly sunned, ends gently bumped, faint marks to lower edge; jacket unclipped, spine a little faded, ends of spine and flap folds a little creased with occasional nicks and shallow chips, two short closed tears to bottom edge of front panel: a very good copy in like jacket.

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. John Fowles' magnum opus, THE MAGUS, first edition, fine in dust jacket. This copy is nicely signed on the title page "John Fowles, Los Angeles, 9-1-97." The American edition is the true first being published in 1965. The British edition bears the "1966" date. The book is unmarked and fine with only the usual toning along the extremities. The dust jacket is fine and with original price intact with minor wear at the extremities, in brodart jacket protector. Housed in a custom-made slipcase, this is as nice a copy as one could desire. An important high spot of 20th century fiction. John Fowles died in November 2005, but his stature continues, in large part, because of THE MAGUS. This book was signed on one of his lecture stops in Los Angeles in 1997. The date "9-1-97" is actually January 9, 1997. (Fowles dates his books in the British fashion of placing the month, day and year. Signed by Author.

Autograph quotation signed by JohnÂFowles, from Chapter 9 of his classic work, The Magus, 1 p, 8vo, n.p., August 4, 1983. It reads in full, "Years later I saw the gabbia at Piacenza: a harsh black canaray-cage strung high up the side of the towering campanile, in which prisoners were once left to starve to death and rot in full view of the town below. And looking up at it I remembered that winter in Greece, that Gabbia I had constructed for myself out of light, solitude, and self-delusions. John Fowles August 4, 1983." Matted and framed. Rare and desirable.