Jun 19, 2014 - Sale 2355

Sale 2355 - Lot 121

Unsold
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
FIRST BOOK FOWLES, JOHN. The Collector. 8vo, publisher's brown-orange boards, spine lettered in gilt, top edges stained maroon; dust jacket, slightest evidence of smudging on rear panel only; housed in a custom green cloth clamshell box. London: Jonathan Cape, (1963)

Additional Details

first edition, first printing, of the author's first book. True first edition of Fowles's debut in the first issue jacket, which has a page-long passage from the book on the rear panel and without any critic's blurbs on the front flap.