Ourika, Signed (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Quarter dark blue morocco gilt with paste-paper covered boards, small 4to., 65, (1) pages. One of 500 copies printed by Henry Morris at his Bird & Bull Press on Barcham Green's Hayle handmade paper. Morris made the paste-paper and the book was bound by Gray Parrot. Translated, and with an introduction and an eplilogue by Fowles, and signed by him on page 64. Trace of rubbing to board edges and tips, else a very near fine copy in archival mylar. Signed by Author(s).

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Signed. First Edition. Signed by translator John Fowles. Green Apple Books and Music, Publisher Weekly's Bookstore of the Year 2014, has been San Francisco's favorite independent bookseller since 1967! Shipping costs on oversize / international orders will reflect actual shipping charges and may be more than quoted by ABE. We will need to contact you with true shipping costs and ask for authorization before adjusting cost.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First American edition, and the first edition in English. Quarto. Quarter leather and pastepaper over boards. Translated into English with an epilogue by John Fowles. Fine. One of 500 copies Signed by John Fowles at the conclusion of the text on page 64. *Ourika* represents a number of important firsts: the first black heroine in a novel set in Europe, the first French literary work narrated by a black female protagonist, and according to John Fowles: "the first serious attempt by a white novelist to enter a black mind." It was also the inspiration for Fowles' novel *The French Lieutenant's Woman*. A lovely fine press edition.

First edition of this translation. One of five hundred copies printed at the Bird and Bull Press. Signed by Fowles at the end of the epilogue. Quarter-leather and marbled boards, as issued. Fine copy. In the introduction Fowles relates how he purchased a copy of the book in an antiquarian dealer's shop and became haunted by it. Although Fowles had not heard of the book when he first came across it, it was by no means a totally forgotten work. The first edition of 1824, consisting of a few copies privately distributed by the author, is a famous rarity of French literature (the various editions of the book are described in one of the notes of the epilogue). "Ourika" is historically important as the first novel with a black female protagonist and narrator.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. One of 500 copies in quarter leather and marbled-paper boards signed by Fowles. Fine. Signed by Author(s).

Leather. Condition: Fine. None (illustrator). A fine limited edition of the important French novel 'Ourika', this striking edition translated and signed by John Fowles. Signed by the translator, John Fowles, to page 64.A limited edition of five hundred copies.'Ourika' is an 1823 novel by Claire de Duras, based on the life of a woman who was purchased as a child, and given as a gift to a prominent family.Duras' work marked a critical point in European literature, with this novel being the first French text to depict a black woman as a character with complex psychology. It still reminds a striking commentary on race, set in the days before, during, and after the French Revolution.This limited edition was translated by John Fowles. 'Ourika' inspired him to write 'The French Lieutenant's Woman'.Originally written in French by Claire de Duras, or Claire de Durfort. In the original publisher's quarter morocco binding with marbled paper to the boards. Externally, fine. Spine is very lightly faded. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine. signed by author. book.

Hardcover. First edition. 1 of 500 copies signed by Fowles. Sm.square 4to., dark blue morocco spine, marble boards, 65pp. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Near Fine. First Ediiton. First Edition. Original marbled paper covered boards over leather spine, gilt title. One of 500 copies signed by John Fowles on page 64. Small abrasion to bottom of leather on front cover, corners mildly worn. Nicely printed by W. Thomas Taylor at the Bird and Bull Press in Austin, Texas. By the Author.

First Edition of this translation. One of 500 copies. Quarto (25.75cm); original quarter blue crushed morocco and paste paper boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; [ii],[4],5-65,[5]pp. Inscribed by Fowles to Czech-born British filmmaker Karel Reisz (1926-2002) on half-title page: "Dear Karel, I thought this little source for the FLW might amuse you and it comes with all my thanks for your patience, past and present, over the filming. I know it could not be in better or more understanding hands. John / Lyme, 14 June 1980." Gentle sunning to spine, pinpoint wear to corners; very Near Fine.Handsome edition of Fowles's translation of Claire de Durfort's 1824 novel. In his introduction, Fowles explains how the acquisition and reading of a badly foxed copy in a London bookshop inspired his third novel, The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969). The novel was adapted for film by playwright Harold Pinter, directed by Karel Reisz, and released to great fanfare, including five Academy Award nominations and a Golden Globe Award for Meryl Streep. A lengthy, significant inscription, and uncommon thus.