Magus Revised Version, Signed (4 results)

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.

First edition thus (first revised edition, published 11 years after the first edition). Signed by the author, with added material. Hardcover. Fore and bottom edges slightly toned, with a touch of foxing on the former, a tiny tissue repair to the top of the front inner hinge, otherwise near fine in fine price-clipped dustjacket with one small professionally closed tear at the tail of the spine. This revised edition of one of Fowles's major works has an informative 6-page foreword laying out the author's reasons for the revision: "not in any major thematic or narrative sense.but it is rather more than a stylistic revision". This copy is flat-signed on the title-page: "John Fowles/16.3.2000" and the late date of signing is explained by the accompanying post-card from the author's 'local' bookshop "Lymelight Books & Prints" of Lyme Regis, Dorset, where Fowles lived, making for a nice association. The postcard's recto side has a handsome b/w photo of Fowles sitting in his garden (presumably), and was taken by a Susan Collins, dated 1997. On the verso of the post-card, the bookshop's manager, Nigel Cozens, has written to the customer to whom this signed copy was sent: "12.4.2000/ Dear Sir or Madam/ Please find enclosed your books as ordered, hope you enjoy them. John is a friend and visitor to our shop and signs books on the premises, regrettably he is a little frail now, and signature varies considerably from day to day and even from book to book. Regards, Nigel Cozens". The signature on the title-page is indeed a little shaky, but unmistakably the author's. Fowles died in 2005, making this a poignant late signing. This copy comes with a privately made facsimile dustjacket of the wonderful Tom Adams artwork for the first edition of "The Magus" in 1966 (that jacket design is used here on the revised version's endpapers), and this facsimile jacket has protected the purple of the present edition's spine so that it is pretty much completely unfaded.

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.

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.