The Sixties Catalogue

T h e S I X T I E S 20 John Fowles’ Own Copy Of His First Published Novel 18. FOWLES, John. The Collector. London, 1963. Octavo, original russet cloth, dust jacket. $5500. Click for more info First edition of Fowles’ highly acclaimed first published novel about a psychotic young man who kidnaps an art student, signed by Fowles and with his blind-embossed ownership stamp, in scarce first-issue dust jacket. “There is not a page in this first novel which does not prove that its author is a master storyteller” ( New York Times ). Scarce first-issue dust jacket , without reviews. The blind embossing that appears in this book carries Fowles’ name and “Lyme Regis,” the town on the English seacoast that was his final residence. Numerical ink notation above embossing. A fine copy with exceptional provenance. “Art’s cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.”