FOWLES, JOHN. The Collector. 8vo, publisher's brick-red cloth, spine lettered in gilt; price-clipped dust jacket, light fingersoiling to rear panel; contents clean. 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. A superb copy. London: Jonathan Cape, (1963)