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Claire de Durfort, John Fowles. Ourika. W. Thomas Taylor January 1977, 1977.
Price: US$69.20 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: used hardcover without jacket as issued in very good- condition. Printing limited to run of 500 without numbering. Volume has been preserved in clear mylar covering for protection. Boards have wear to edges from shelfwear as expected. Minor bumping to corners from use. No damage to blue marbled board design is evident. Binding remains clean and strong. There are no markings to the text or foxing of pages.
Seller: Magus Books Seattle, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Fowles, John translator Claire De Durfort. OURIKA. W Thomas Taylor, TX, 1977.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition first printing hardcover limited to 500 copies unnumbered Fine in blue swirled pattern boards and blue leather spine with gilt print and two very small rubs to tips SIGNED BY FOWLES ON PAGE 64 THE EPILOGUE folio30
Seller: bookroom, Livingston, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$92.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 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.
Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: One of 500 copies printed at the Bird & Bull Press and signed by John Fowles at bottom of page 64. Near Fine, a few small rubs to marbled boards, spine a touch sunned. Size: Small 4to
Seller: Dale Steffey Books, ABAA, ILAB, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.
Duras, Claire De Durfort. Ourika. W. T. Taylor, 1977.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1977. SIGNED by Fowles. Limited 500 copies Bird & Bull Press, binding by Gray Parrot at Hancock, ME. 1/4 blue morocco over marbled boards. Fine copy.; 65 pages
Seller: Isaiah Thomas Books & Prints, Inc., Cotuit, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Original marbled boards over leather spine. One of 500 copies signed by John Fowles. Printed by W.Thomas Taylor at the Bird and Bull Press, Austin, Texas 1977. Slight sunning to leather at top of spine. A beautifully printed book.
Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.
de DURFORT, Claire (FOWLES, John, translator). Ourika. W. Thomas Taylor, Austin, 1977.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 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. *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.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: 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.
Seller: Alexanderplatz Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$132.34 + shipping
Description: Austin TX: W. Thomas Taylor 1977. Sm. 4to. Orig. qtr. blue leather spine decorated marble boards (slightly flecked). (68pp.). Uncut. Lim. ed. of 500 copies. Signed by John Fowles. Printed on hand-made paper. Fine.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
de Durfort, Claire & John Fowles (trans). Ourika. W. Thomas Taylor, Austin, 1977.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Signed by Fowles at the conclusion of the text. Printed at the Bird and Bull press. Written in 1823, this short French novel portrays a complex black women narrator who faces the startling reality of racism for the first time which throws her into a deep state of "melancholia." Bottom edge rubbed, fine in custom mylar cover. Blue morocco backed marbled boards
Seller: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Durfort, Claire De. OURIKA. W. Thomas Taylor, Austin, 1977.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: 4to. quarter leather over paste paper-covered boards. 65 pages. Limited to 500 copies printed by Henry Morris at the Bird & Bull Press on Green's Hayle paper, with the paste paper made by Morris and the binding executed by Gray Parrot. (Taylor B6). Prospectus loosely inserted. Spine faded, else a fine copy. Translated into English with an introduction and epilogue by John Fowles who has signed all copies. A thoughtful story about a black woman, adopted and raised as a lady in French society and then left on her own without funds. quarter leather over paste paper-covered boards
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.
Claire de Durfort; Claire de Duras; John Fowles. Ourika. W. Thomas Taylor, Austin, 1977.
Price: US$198.53 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 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
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Claire de Durfort. Ourika-translated by John Fowles. W Thomas Taylor, 1977.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 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.
Seller: Green Apple Books and Music, san francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$215.19 + shipping
Description: One of 500 copies. Printed at the Bird & Bull Press 4to Very slight scratch marks to marbled paper, otherwise a very nice copy. Signed by Fowles at the end of his epilogue (p.64) Quarter blue morocco, marbled paper boards
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$1850.00 + shipping
Description: 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.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.