The Magus by John Fowles, First Edition (101 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good plus with sunning to spine ends and light shelf wear. Small mark to fore-edge and a touch of soiling to topstain, otherwise clean and tight. In a very good plus dust jacket (price intact) with light rubbing to the spine ends and corners, and tiny closed tears at the top of the spine. SIGNED BY JOHN FOWLES and dated 10.1.1966 (British for January 10, 1966), the actual day the book was published. Extremely rare thus. We have the largest selection of John Fowles first editions for sale in the world--please inquire about our multiple-purchase discounts, or if you need assistance with building a Fowles collection. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. John Fowles' magnum opus, THE MAGUS, first edition, fine in dust jacket. This copy is nicely signed on the title page "John Fowles, Los Angeles, 9-1-97." The American edition is the true first being published in 1965. The British edition bears the "1966" date. The book is unmarked and fine with only the usual toning along the extremities. The dust jacket is fine and with original price intact with minor wear at the extremities, in brodart jacket protector. Housed in a custom-made slipcase, this is as nice a copy as one could desire. An important high spot of 20th century fiction. John Fowles died in November 2005, but his stature continues, in large part, because of THE MAGUS. This book was signed on one of his lecture stops in Los Angeles in 1997. The date "9-1-97" is actually January 9, 1997. (Fowles dates his books in the British fashion of placing the month, day and year. Signed by Author.

First edition of the author's most well-known work. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Signed by John Fowles on a page bound in. In fine condition. The Magus was published by in the United Kingdom in 1966 and in the United States by Little, Brown and Company the same year. An instant success, the Sunday Telegraph called it a major work of mounting tensions in which the human mind is the guinea-pig. Mr Fowles has taken a big swing at a difficult subject and his hits.are on the bull's eye'." The Magus was quickly adapted into film starring Michael Cain, a "deliciously toothsome celebration of wanton story-telling. Before one quite realises what is happenings, one finds oneself no less avid for meanings and no less starving amid a plethora of clues than is Nicholas himself" (Sunday Times). It was named by Modern Library as one of the 100 Greatest Novels of the twentieth century, and in 2003, was listed at number 67 on the BBC's survey The Big Read.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A fine copy, bright and clean inside and out with the barest trace of sunning to the top edge of the rear board. In a very good plus dust jacket ($6.95 price intact) with slight rubbing at the spine ends and corners, and a small closed tear to the spine--about a third of the way down--that is virtually invisible from the exterior. INSCRIBED BY JOHN FOWLES on November 17, 1969 to George Christy, former reviewer and society columnist for The Hollywood Reporter. According to Fowles' journals, he was in Los Angeles at that time on his U.S. publicity tour for The French Lieutenant's Woman, which had been published eight days earlier. An excellent signed copy with a nice association. We have the largest selection of John Fowles first editions for sale in the world--please inquire about our multiple-purchase discounts, or if you need assistance with building a Fowles collection. Signed by Author(s).

A first edition, first printing published by Cape in 1966. A near fine book, signed and dated (1987) on the title page by John Fowles. Striking near fine unclipped wrapper, designed by Tom Adams, with some creasing to the rear panel, with some light wear to the spine tips. Rare signed. The Magus by John Fowles is a psychological novel that follows Nicholas Urfe, a disillusioned young teacher who takes a job on a remote Greek island. There, he meets the enigmatic Maurice Conchis, who draws him into a series of elaborate psychological games, blending reality and illusion. As Nicholas is manipulated through surreal experiences involving love, betrayal and existential dilemmas, the novel explores themes of free will, identity and the nature of truth, leaving readers in a state of ambiguity.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Cape (1966), 1st British edition. Near-fine with light shelf wear and a touch of foxing to fore-edge, otherwise clean and unmarked. In a very good plus dust jacket (price intact) with some wear at the spine ends and corners. SIGNED BY JOHN FOWLES on the title page. Scarce signed. We have the largest selection of John Fowles first editions for sale in the world--please inquire about multiple-purchase discounts, or if you need assistance with building a Fowles collection. Signed by Author(s).

Autograph quotation signed by JohnÂFowles, from Chapter 9 of his classic work, The Magus, 1 p, 8vo, n.p., August 4, 1983. It reads in full, "Years later I saw the gabbia at Piacenza: a harsh black canaray-cage strung high up the side of the towering campanile, in which prisoners were once left to starve to death and rot in full view of the town below. And looking up at it I remembered that winter in Greece, that Gabbia I had constructed for myself out of light, solitude, and self-delusions. John Fowles August 4, 1983." Matted and framed. Rare and desirable.

First American edition, preceding the British edition by one year of the author's most well-known work. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, bookplate of famed collector Rolland Comstock. Jacket painting by Tom Adams. Housed in a custom half morocco case. The Sunday Telegraph called The Magus a major work of mounting tensions in which the human mind is the guinea-pig. Mr. Fowles has taken a big swing at a difficult subject and his hits.are on the bull's eye'." The Magus was quickly adapted into film starring Michael Cain, a "deliciously toothsome celebration of wanton story-telling. Before one quite realises what is happenings, one finds oneself no less avid for meanings and no less starving amid a plethora of clues than is Nicholas himself" (Sunday Times). It was named by Modern Library as one of the 100 Greatest Novels of the twentieth century, and in 2003, and was listed at number 67 on the BBC's survey The Big Read.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Marc Burckhardt (illustrator). 1st Edition. BRAND NEW and FACTORY-SEALED.SIGNED By: Christopher Priest, Eileen Warburton and Marc Burckhardt. The Numbered edition of 250 copies is a quarter leather binding with cloth over the boards. The cover is stamped in gold foil and features an art print inset into the front cover. Endsheets are custom designed for this edition and are printed letterpress on Hahnemühle Bugra Archive. The edition includes a color fold-out featuring the Artist edition dust jacket illustration, as well as a reproduction of the first edition jacket art by Tom Adams. It is printed offset on Mohawk Via Vellum paper and is housed in a cloth covered clamshell enclosure with a leather spine label. This edition is signed by Christopher Priest, Eileen Warburton and Marc Burckhardt. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. As New in an As New custom cloth covered slipcase. With the bookmark and wooden "Le Bateleur" Tarot card. #233/250 copies of the Numbered Edition which sold out shortly after it was released. SIGNED by the illustrator and the writers of the new exclusive introduction and afterword. In a quarter leather binding with European bookcloth over boards. Art print inset into the gold foil blocked front cover. Set in Monotype Digital Fournier and printed offset on Mohawk Via Vallum paper. The endsheets were designed for this edition and printed letterpress on Hahnemuhle Bugra Archive. Another stunning title from Suntup Editions. We grade our books conservatively to insure your satisfaction. Additional photos available on request. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First English edition. Fine in near very good price-clipped dust jacket with a couple of large scrapes on the front panel. Inscribed by the author: "Michael Curtis With my best wishes, John Fowles. 8 Oct 1982." The American edition precedes but the English edition seems much less common, especially in nice condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Near fine in original light green wrappers. Uncorrected proof in proof dust jacket with edgewear and internal tape mends. Uncommon in this condition.

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition. Original olive green wrappers, title tipped onto front cover as issued. Wrappers are very good with some wear and scuffing, prelims a bit worn. Signed on the title page, "John Fowles Lyme Regis,1980." This title is not uncommon, but it is quite scarce signed. Some consider this Fowles' magnum opus. In custom-made slipcase.

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First Edition. First British edition of John Fowles' masterpiece, The Magus. The book is fine, with bright gilt titles on spine, covers clean, no bookplates or writing. "First published in Great Britain in 1966" on copyright page. In near fine dust jacket with only minor rubbing to crown and foot of spine, minor foxing to inside of jacket spine. A very nice collectible copy. Housed in a cutom-made slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Top edge very slightly marked, fore-edge a little spotted and thumbed, dustwrapper (by Tom Adams) slightly frayed at head and tail of spine, and with very mild wear at corners, front flap a little marked. First UK edition (first published by Little, Brown 1965 [but January 1966]), inscribed by the author on the title-page, with no signature, "Reg Gadney with sincerest good wishes Lyme Regis Sunday, 14.3.99". "Even so powerful a novel as The Collector does not prepare us for the manifold, compulsive fascination of John Fowles's The Magus . . ." (publisher's blurb). For some readers, it is Fowles's best book. For Fowles himself, it was "the first one I wrote [and] still, I think, excites me more than the others. It still slightly puzzles me how I could have written it." He issued a revised version in 1977. Reg Gadney, himself a novelist, was the second husband of Fay Maschler, first wife of John Fowles's editor at Cape, Tom Maschler. Inscribed by Author(s).

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, uncorrected proof. Publisher's original light green wraps, publisher's label pasted to front panel. A very good copy with some toning and wear to spine. The Magus follows Nicholas Urfe, a young Oxford graduate and aspiring poet who is mentally deteriorating while teaching on a small Greek Island. Nicholas becomes depressed and falls into a friendship with Maurice Conchis, a wealthy and mysterious man who severs Nicholas' grip on reality through elaborate mind games. The story was inspired by John Fowles' time teaching on the Greek island of Spetses as a young man. The Magus was the first book Fowles wrote but the third to be published. An immediate sensation, the plot reverberated the experimental philosophy of the 1960s, and it was adapted into a film shortly after its publication.

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. Second Impression. First Edition, second impression, "June, 1966." Book fine with a slight wrinkle to half-title. One of an unspecified number "Signed for a member of the New Fiction Society." Signed by John Fowles. Book fine, dust jacket price-clipped (as is customery with this signed edition), with slight wear to crown and foot of spine. Quite scarce.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 582 pages. First American edition, first printing. Dust jacket design by Tom Adams. His third book which was published before the English (Jonathan Cape) edition. His most famous book which was chosen by the Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest works of the last century. Fine book with a hint of fading to the spine & some light offsetting to the rear endpapers from a newspaper clipping in a fine dust jacket with just a touch of fading to the spine. A beautiful copy!

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First Thus, 2nd Printing. 8vo. Cloth. Dust jacket. Signed on title page. Front jacket flap clipped with a bookseller's sticker. Light scuffing to jacket edges. This is a signed second printing of the expanded edition of Fowles' classic novel.

Condition: Fine. First Edition. Fine in clue card wrappers with a white paper label. One of 200 numbered copies signed by Fowles. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A stunning copy of the first edition in its original jacket. Bound in green cloth with burgundy stamped titles and blind stamped boards. Top edge of the boards are lightly sunned. Some loss to lower spine title. Corners sharp. Pages clean and crisp. No marks, notes, or foxing. The jacket is surprisingly well preserved with some bumping to the head and foot. There is a one-inch closed tear to the upper inside corner of the frond and a small one quarter-inch closed tear as the inside lower corner of the back. Jacket retains the original $7.95 on the inside front flap. A spectacular copy. [Shelved].

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition.

617pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First edition. First edition. 617pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Purple cloth and grey boards, near fine with some spotting to the tinted top edge, unclipped dust jacket with some rubbing along along top edge, light soiling, chip to corner, and a closed tear along hinge between spine and rear cover.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. None (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of John Fowles's celebrated postmodern novel, reviewed by the Sunday Times as a 'deliciously toothsome celebration of wanton story-telling'. The first edition, first impression of this work in the vibrant publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper, illustrated by Tom Adams.'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. In 1977 he published a revised edition.A wonderful first edition from Fowles, the renowned British novelist of works positioned between modernism and postmodernism, best known for 'A Maggot', 'The French Lieutenant's Woman', and 'The Collector'. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Minor mark to head of front joint, otherwise externally fine. Minor chipping to dust wrapper back strip head and tail, with small tape repair to reverse of back strip head. Closed tears to tail of back strip over joints. Rubbing to dust wrapper folds over joints, resulting in some losses of colour. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. 1st Edition. First Printing of Fowles' acclaimed, enigmatic novel. Not the revised version. Light sunning to edges of green cloth covered boards, pencil erasure scar at top of FFEP. Jacket has scuffs to outer corners, chipping at spine ends, and light edge wear.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Fowles' magnum opus, The Magus, first American edition which precedes the British edition. A large book which is often seen with tears and wear, this is a very nice copy in collector's condition. The book has some very minor sunning along the edges. There are no markings or writing in the book. The dust jacket is fine with the original price of $7.95" on the front flap. No chips or tears. Some sunning on the inside of the spine of the jacket, but the outer visible jacket is nice indeed. Scarce in this condition.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of John Fowles's celebrated postmodern novel, in the bright unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper, illustrated by Tom Adams.'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. In 1977 he published a revised edition. A wonderful first edition from Fowles, the renowned British novelist of works positioned between modernism and postmodernism, best known for 'A Maggot', 'The French Lieutenant's Woman', and 'The Collector'. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally very smart, with just a touch of fading to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. Dust wrapper is bright and generally smart, with a little chipping to the head and tail of the spine, and to the folds of the flaps. One very small tear to the front of the wrap. Fine. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1965 First edition. A near fine copy in a near fine, unclipped dust jacket. The jacket showing very slight edgewear, a bit of sunning to the spine, and a little remnant from sticker removal at the top of the front flap. A very nice example of the postmodern classic, chosen by the Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest novels of the Century.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. His second novel. Uncorrected proof copy. Edges tanned, a few minor creases, mark to lower panel, otherwise near Fine in publisher's wrappers with printed label.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. "The Magus" by John Fowles. Jonathan Cape, London - 1965 uncorrected UK proof copy - Publisher's original light green wraps, publisher's label pasted to front panel, with some wear to edges, and creasing to spine.