FOWLES, JOHN. The Collector. 8vo, publisher's brick-red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, small blemish to fore-edge; dust jacket; discoloration to front pastedown from removed booklabel, else 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. London: Jonathan Cape, (1963)