Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Fowles, John 1926-2005. The collector / John Fowles. London : Jonathan Cape, 1963.
Price: US$27.62 + shipping
Description: Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Not price-clipped. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 282 pages : 20 cm. Subjects; Fowles, John 1926-2005. Kidnapping ; Fiction. Women art students ; Fiction. Clerks ; Fiction. Butterflies Collectors and collecting ; Fiction. Art ; Fiction. English fiction 20th century. Obsessive Behavior ; Fictional Works. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
John Fowles. The Collector. Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1963.
Price: US$32.48 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1963. 2nd Impression. 282 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Binding remains firm. Pages are lightly tanned throughout. Pencil inscriptions and sticker to pastedowns and front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Dent to top edge of front board. Clipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Light tanning and water staining to spine and edges. Wear marks overall.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Fowles, John. The Collector. Jonathan Cape, 1963.
Price: US$37.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: jacket is shelf rubbed and edge worn. tanning. crossed out inscription. light marks. some tippex marks on jacket. well bound. fairly good copy.[S.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Fowles, John 1926-2005. The collector / John Fowles. London : Jonathan Cape, 1963.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Not price-clipped. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 282 pages : 20 cm. Subjects; Fowles, John 1926-2005. Kidnapping ; Fiction. Women art students ; Fiction. Clerks ; Fiction. Butterflies Collectors and collecting ; Fiction. Art ; Fiction. English fiction 20th century. Obsessive Behavior ; Fictional Works. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
FOWLES, John. The collector. Jonathan Cape, London, 1963.
Price: US$64.41 + shipping
Description: 1st edition, 1963. Signs of glueing of front hinge; faint suggestion of a Boots or W H Smith library label on front board, but no internal signs. Used - Very Good. VG hardback (no dustjacket)
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
FOWLES, John. The Collector. Jonathan Cape, 1963.
Price: US$78.97 + shipping
Description: 1st edition, 1st issue. In light brown/tan cloth, with gilt on spine. A few spots of foxing; binding tight; spine very slightly faded; faint ring-mark on front board. Used - Very Good. VG hardback (no dust jacket)
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
John Fowles. The Collector. Jonathan Cape, United Kingdom, 1963.
Price: US$82.45 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Collector by John Fowles, Hardcover, UK Edition, 2nd Impression (May 1963). The book was first published in May 1963. This 2nd Impression was published in the same month. Book in very good condition, in a good unclipped dust jacket. The book has slight spine bumping and a spine crease. The dust jacket shows general wear and ageing including internally, with small losses to the hinges, especially to the front end flap. (See pictures). This is the debut novel by this much acclaimed author, John Fowles.
Seller: Ann's Old Town Books, Swindon, United Kingdom
Fowles, John. The Collector. Jonathan Cape, London, 1963.
Price: US$94.26 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Top edge dyed red. As-new gilt on spine only. ffep/synopsis is attached only at the top. Small Ottawa bookstore sticker at bottom of rear pastedown. No notations or any markings. Very clean and square. Bookseller's Inventory # 204164
Seller: Lower Beverley Better Books, Lyndhurst, ON, Canada
John Fowles. The Collector. Jonathan Cape, 1963.
Price: US$96.62 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition second impression from 1963 in near fine condition, no internal markings, pages clean, binding firm, the jacket has some minor scuffing and wear to extremities, now in removable protective sleeve, please see pics, PayPal accepted, any questions please get in touch.
Seller: Setanta Books, Richmond, SURRE, United Kingdom
FOWLES, JOHN. THE COLLECTOR. JONATHAN CAPE, LONDON., 1963.
Price: US$97.00 + shipping
Description: SECOND IMPRESSION OF THIS SOUGHT AFTER BOOK, MAY 1963, SAME MONTH AS FIRST IMPRESSION. SOLID & VERY CLEAN, MO MARKINGS . RATES BETTER THAN NEAR FINE IN BETTER THAN VERY GOOD D/J HAVING 2 TINY TEARS. FURTHER SCANS ON REQUEST, THANKS.
Seller: Come See Books Livres, Canton de Hatley, QC, Canada
Fowles, John. The collector. Jonathan Cape, London, 1963.
Price: US$110.49 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 282 pag
Seller: Von Meyenfeldt, Slaats & Sons, Breda, Netherlands
John Fowles. The Collector. Jonathan Cape, 1963.
Price: US$128.76 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st edition, 3rd impression 1963. Slight foxing/discolouration to back cover of the unclipped dust-jacket. Slight rubbing to edges of dust-jacket, now protected using removable clear wrap, otherwise in very good condition. A very presentable copy for its age. Next day dispatch by Royal Mail in sturdy, recyclable packaging. 1000's of satisfied customers! Please contact us with any enquiries.
Seller: Henffordd Books, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Fowles, John. The Collector. Jonathan Cape, 1963.
Price: US$130.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: the delightful jacket has been got at by insects. sadly this has caused small holes in the back panel and to a lesser degree the spine. the front panel is unaffected. it could still be considered 'fair' as it still presents well in cellophane. the book itself is in very good condition indeed. there are no inscriptions and it appears very little used. there is some minor staining on the block of the book that could be sanded off. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
John Fowles. THE COLLECTOR [1/2]. Jonathan Cape, London, 1963.
Price: US$161.03 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Second impression of the true first edition, published in May 1963, the same month as the first impression. Dustwrapper wraparound design from a painting by Tom Adams. ***Near fine in orange-brown cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The gilt is still nice and bright, having been protected by the dustwrapper. Boards clean and unmarked. Head and tail of spine just very slightly creased. Top of page block stained red by the publisher - slightly faded and marked. None of the usual foxing to the page block edges. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean and bright. No internal foxing. No tears or creases. Spine tight with no reading lean. ***In a near fine colour-illustrated dustwrapper that has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's price of 18s net. The dustwrapper is complete with no loss and hardly any wear. Extremities of dustwrapper just slightly rubbed. Very slight loss at the top edge of the spine and corner tips. Some light marks and a small stain to the back panel which is white. No fading to the spine. Dustwrapper bright. ***195 mm x132 mm. 283 pages. ***'As stark as a police report, this novel opens with the confession of a young suburban clerk who has kidnapped an art student from outside her home in Hampstead. In his own colourless, yet curiously expressive words, Frederick Clegg tells how he held her prisoner in a remote house in the country, which he had bought for the purpose with money won in the football pools. Leaving nothing to chance, he is as meticulous over the details of his complicated plan as he is with the layout of his butterfly collection. The girl, thoughtful, yet impetuous and eager for life, and to him a creature from a different world, surreptitiously records Clegg's feelings of inferiority and his pathetic attempts to make her understand him. Desperately she tries to persuade him to release her. A remarkable feat of imagination, The Collector is a novel of suspense and disquieting perception whose cumulative effect is all too memorable.' [Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper] ***A near fine copy of the second impression of the true first edition of John Fowles' first novel, complete in the original dustwrapper, with the attractive wraparound painting by Tom Adams. Early impressions of this book in such collectable condition are very hard to find now. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
John Fowles. The Collector. Jonathan Cape, LOndon, 1963.
Price: US$206.12 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st printing. Very good copy indeed with rust coloured boards and original wrapper unclipped and without reviews. Jacket is bright and clean with slight chipping on top end of spine. No inscriptions, tight copy. Previous owner's name is very neatly and discreetly embossed with a relief stamp on front end paper.
Seller: Hinch Books, Brighton, United Kingdom
Fowles, John. THE COLLECTOR. Jonathan Cape, London, 1963.
Price: US$221.69 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Neat previous owners inscription on ffep. Clean Brown boards with gild title on spine. Price Not Clipped (18s net), Dj clean & bright. Scan available on request.
Seller: BOOK COLLECTORS GALLERY, SUMMER HILL, NSW, Australia
John Fowles. The Collector. Jonathan Cape, London, 1963.
Price: US$225.45 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London, Jonathan Cape, 1963. First Edition. First Impression. Hardback. A very good copy. The issue in orange boards (some were issued in black, in a very small number. No precedence has been established and thoughts vary from it being a trial or review binding, to the orange running out toward the end of the process). Some tears to the spine, particularly to both sides of the lower tip. Similar to the upper fold. Rear plate a touch soiled. Some foxing to the foreedge. [9269, Hyraxia Books].
Seller: Hyraxia Books. ABA, ILAB, Hutton Cranswick, United Kingdom
Fowles, John. The Collector. Little, Brown and Company, New York, 1963.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo., 305pp. Sharp Stated First American Edition. Originally published in the UK by Jonathan Cape in 1963. Made into the 1965 film starring Terence Stamp and Samantha Eggar, directed by William Wyler. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear save some gentle bumping to the spine ends. No toning or foxing. Equally attractive unclipped dust wrapper with ($4.95), has a touch of edge-wear and mild soiling to rear panel. Still fresh and bright with no chipping, creases or tears. A very pretty collectable copy of the author's first book.
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books ABAA, IOBA, Manasquan, NJ, U.S.A.
FOWLES, John. THE COLLECTOR. London, Jonathan Cape, 1963, 1963.
Price: US$258.64 + shipping
Description: 284pp. 8vo. Original boards in very slightly chipped dustwrapper with faint mark on rear fold. A very good copy indeed. First edition
Seller: Grant's Bookshop, Cheltenham, VIC, Australia
John Fowles. The Collector. Jonathan Cape, 1963.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "The Collector" by John Fowles Jonathan Cape - 1963, first UK edition first printing - 282p, 18cmx15cm condition: good, in original first issue dust jacket with some wear and chip at corner housed in mylar cover, small name on ffep. First issue dust jackets without reviews are highly collectible and rare. The Collector is a 1963 thriller novel by English author John Fowles, in his literary debut. Its plot follows a lonely, psychotic young man who kidnaps a female art student in London and holds her captive in the cellar of his rural farmhouse. Divided in two sections, the novel contains both the perspective of the captor, Frederick, as well as that of Miranda, the captive. The portion of the novel told from Miranda's perspective is presented in epistolary form. One of the pre-eminent psychological thrillers of the 20th century
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Fowles, John. The Collector. Jonathan Cape, 1963.
Price: US$280.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: the jacket is frayed at the top of the spine with a few small tears. only a couple of mm of paper loss. the bottom of the spine is a little creased with very little loss. the jacket is also shelf rubbed and the back is marked. the jacket is price clipped. the book has no inscriptions and is near fine. well bound. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Fowles, John. The Collector. Jonathan Cape, London, 1963.
Price: US$302.31 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 390 g.; VIII, 284 pages, last page blank. Tan coloured boards with gilt titles to the backstrip. Red coloured tint to the top block edge. Light of rubbing to the book corners. Light browning and very faint foxing to the text of edges. Previous owner's name across the full width of the free front end paper. Illustrated dustwrapper, by Tom Adams, with black titles to the front panel and the backstrip. Rubbing and a little chipping to the dustwrapper corners. Rubbing to the other edges of the dustwrapper and there is a similar .25 " tear to the top left-hand corner of the rear dustwrapper panel. There is a smaller tear to the top right-hand corner of the rear backstrip corner. There has been yellowing and handling marks to the rear dustwrapper panel. Clipping of the dustwrapper, all four corners. On the verso of the dustwrapper a few foxing spots with some handling marks. The classic novel by John Fowles about an inadequate young man who kidnaps a young woman to study. This is the first UK edition. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). Dust Jacket price-clipped. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Tom Adams -- Cover Art. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Literature & Literary; Inventory No: 0106403.
Seller: Syber's Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
John Folwes. The Collector. Jonathan Cape, London, 1963.
Price: US$380.04 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The Collector by John Fowles, Jonathan Cape, London 1963,A first edition copy in good condition with a very good condition dust jacket. A rare find. The debut novel, The Collector, was John Fowles's debut novel and achieved considerable success. The book was adapted for film in 1965 and the book remains a popular edition. Jacket designed by Tom Adams, the US-born Anglo-Scots illustrator and painter, who is recognised for his designs for Agatha Christie books. Rust coloured boards with red stained top edge of the pages. Mild lean. The contents are in good condition with some marks on some of the pages. The dust jacket is bright with only minimal darkening of the spine. Slight rubbing of the rear cover and folds. 8vo. 283pp
Seller: Rare And Antique Books PBFA, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom
Fowles, John. The Collector. London Jonathan Cape 1963, 1963.
Price: US$414.74 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1st Edition. 283pp. 12mo. Unclipped illustrated dust jacket over rust-coloured cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Upper corner of front board lightly bumped. Two very small spots of discoloration to rear board, else binding tight and clean. Top edge died red. Internally clean. Jacket with some light rubbing to corners and head and tail of spine and a vertical crease along edges of spine. White of back panel with some discoloration. An attractive copy of the infamous first book by John Fowles, detailing the abduction of a young woman by a fastidious collector who decides to expand the scope of his collection. The dust jacket art by Tom Adams has become a classic of modern literature. This copy is in the first state dust wrapper, and the second state binding. The first state black cloth may well have been issued in fewer than 100 copies and is very scarce.
Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada
Fowles, John. The Collector. Jonathan Cape, London, 1963, 1963.
Price: US$418.69 + shipping
Description: A first edition, first printing published by Cape in 1963. Near Fine, top edge dusty with some discolouration, slight bumping, feint neat ink names on front pastedown, mostly hidden by the flaps in clean and bright dustwrapper. Showing very minor wear, slightest discolouration, some bumping, and rubbing which is housed in a protective removable sleeve. There are no further ink marks or writing. Overall a pleasing example with the wrapper a lot brighter than usual. 14021.
Seller: Holybourne Rare Books ABA ILAB, Alton, United Kingdom
FOWLES, John (1926-2005). The Collector. Jonathan Cape, London, 1963.
Price: US$574.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Impression of the author's important first novel. 8vo: 283 [1]pp. Publisher's rust-colored cloth with matching top stain, spine stamped in gold; price-clipped first issue dust jacket (without reviews) illustrated by Tom Adams. A Fine, bright example, probably unread, with crimp to head of spine; about Fine jacket (light dust-soiling to back panel). A psychological thriller (and instant bestseller) about a repressed council clerk and butterfly collector, Edward Clegg, who kidnaps an art student, the talented, beautiful Miranda Grey. (The William Wyler film starred Terence Stamp and Samantha Eggar.) Almost the entire novel is set in the claustrophobic confines of the cellar where Clegg keeps Miranda until she eventually dies of pneumonia. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).
Seller: Fine Editions Ltd, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Fowles, John. The Collector. Jonathan Cape 1963, London, 1963.
Price: US$579.72 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. 283 pp. Publisher's brown boards in pictorial dust jacket. Dj now protected in a clear plastic sleeve. Very slight wear to dj spine ends. Not price-clipped with '18s net' on the flap. Internally clean. No ownership marks. A Near Fine/Near Fine copy of the author's first book. 8vo.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Fowles, John. THE COLLECTOR. Jonathan Cape, London, 1963.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, boards. The author's first book. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-39. Fine in nearly fine first state dust jacket ( without review comments on flap) with some foxing to rear panel and small internal stain on front panel (no show through). Still an attractive copy. (6753)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Fowles, John. THE COLLECTOR. Jonathan Cape, London, 1963.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first book. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-39. A fine copy in near fine first state dust jacket with some foxing to rear panel and small internal stain on front panel (no show through), Overall, an attractive copy. (#7561)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
FOWLES. JOHN.. THE COLLECTOR.. Jonathan Cape. London. 1963, 1963.
Price: US$708.54 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.7 x 5.2 inches). The Authors first novel. Neat three line inscription (interestingly from a J. Fowles, but not the author) on the front blank endpaper, otherwise a very good copy in a very good dustwrapper with some light rubbing to the extremities and marking to the rear panel but still overall a nice and collectable copy.
Seller: Paul Foster. - ABA & PBFA Member., London, United Kingdom
Fowles, John. THE COLLECTOR. Jonathan Cape [1963.], London, 1963.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, boards. The author's first book. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-39. A fine copy in fine first state dust jacket ( without review comments on flap) which is price clipped. (6752)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
FOWLES, John. The Collector. Jonathan Cape, London, 1963.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Tiny spot in front gutter barely worthy of mention still fine in fine, first issue dustwrapper with very slight toning on rear panel. Author's first book, a masterful account of obsession which was the basis for the William Wyler film with Terence Stamp and Samantha Eggar. Significantly nicer than usually encountered.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Fowles, John. THE COLLECTOR. Jonathan Cape, London, 1963.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first book. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-39. A fine copy in fine price-clipped first state dust jacket without review comments on flap. (#15274)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$766.52 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: HARDBACK - A very good book, bound in the publisher's scarce variant black cloth boards with bright gilt lettering to the spine. There is foxing to the page blocks, but the inner text is clean. There is a previous owner stamp to the front paste down, also with a small book seller's label, also on the lower front paste down. The dust wrapper is in near very good condition with shallow chipping to the spine tips, also to the corners of the front and rear flap folds. There is quite heavy foxing to the rear panel, more so to the rear fold. The publisher's printed price of 18s net is present to the front flap.
Seller: West Hull Rare Books - P.B.F.A., Hull, YORKS, United Kingdom
JOHN FOWLES. THE COLLECTOR. JONATHAN CAPE,LONDON, 1963.
Price: US$766.52 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST UK EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION. HARDBACK IN A RARE PUBLISHERS VARIANT BLACK CLOTH BINDING, ORIGINAL UNPRICE CLIPPED DUST JACKET, HALF TITLE. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 8 x 5 INCHES WITH 283 PAGES. LIGHT EDGE WEAR TO JACKET, FRONT HINGE COCKED SLIGHTLY FORWARD,SMALL ABRASION TO CLOTH AT BOTTOM OF FRONT BOARD ( see image ) CORNERS BUMPED, MINOR CRACK TO INNER FRONT HINGE ( see image) VERY OCCASIONAL MINOR BLEMISH MINOR CREASE OR LIGHT FOXING TO PAGES,SMALL MINOR ABRASION TO TOP RIGHT CORNER OF FRONT ENDPAPER & HALF TITLE ( caused by old prices in pencil being rubbed out). OVERALL A VERY GOOD COPY WITH BOARDS FIRMLY ATTACHED. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS.
Seller: Elder Books, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Fowles, John. The Collector. Jonathan Cape, London, 1963.
Price: US$875.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Uncorrected Proof of this first novel from Fowles. Original printed wrappers from Cape remain bright with just a few minor spots of soiling. The spine shows some creasing with light rubbing along rear joint and at spine ends. Bookplate signed by Fowles in Lyme Regis laid in. Housed in a custom brown clamshell case which is in fine shape.
Seller: Peruse the Stacks, Gig Harbor, WA, U.S.A.
John Fowles. The Collector. Jonathan Cape, London, 1963.
Price: US$895.34 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A fine first edition copy of John Fowles' debut novel, with the author's signature loosely inserted. The first edition, first impression, with no subsequent printings listed.Signed to a loosely inserted slip of paper.In the original publisher's unclipped dust wrapper.'The Collector' is an unsettling novel, following a psychotic young man who wins the lottery and uses the money to buy an isolated house. He becomes increasingly obsessed with an art student, Miranda Grey, eventually kidnapping her and keeping her locked in his cellar.Only two years after this publication, the novel was adapted into an Academy Award nominated film.The success of this novel allowed John Fowles to quit his teaching career to focus full-time on his writing. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Dust wrapper is very lightly edge worn with a few minor marks. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
John Fowles. The Collector. Jonathan Cape, London, 1963.
Price: US$895.34 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: HARDBACK - first edition - A very fine book, free of any names or inscriptions, in a fine d/w that is unfaded to the spine and without any tears or loss. Correctly priced at 18s.net. An outstanding copy with an original 1963 sales receipt laid in.
Seller: West Hull Rare Books - P.B.F.A., Hull, YORKS, United Kingdom
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition. First issue without out the reviews on the front flap and rear panel, original price "18s net" on the front flap. An usually nice copy with crisp corners, small bump on bottom of rear cover. Dust jacket with no wear to folds and corners. John Fowles' first novel, made into a film with Terence Stamp and Samantha Eggar. Ironically, The Collector seems to be a favorite for real-life serial-killers.
Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.
FOWLES, John. The Collector. Jonathan Cape, London, 1963.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in an about fine, first issue dustwrapper (without the reviews) with a couple of minute rub marks. The author's first book, a masterful account of obsession which was the basis for the William Wyler film with Terence Stamp and Samantha Eggar. Significantly nicer than usually encountered.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
FOWLES, John. The Collector. London Jonathan Cape 1963, 1963.
Price: US$966.20 + shipping
Description: First edition. The film critic Alexander Walker's copy with his ink owner ship signature. 8vo., original brown cloth with dust wrapper. A little darkening to lower panel of wrapper otherwise a very good copy. The Collector was made into a 1965 film directed by William Wyler and starring Terence Stamp and Samantha Eggar.
Seller: G. Heywood Hill Ltd ABA, London, United Kingdom
John FOWLES. The Collector: [a novel]. London: Jonathan Cape, 1963.
Price: US$966.20 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Rust brown cloth (the ordinary issue - copies were issued too in black cloth, precedence indeterminate, and not nearly as uncommon thus as some dealers hope); (Tom Adams) dustwrapper. Faint spots to fore-edge and endpapers, dustwrapper spotted at flaps, lower cover panel rather dusty, with mild fraying at head of spine and a tiny tear (minimal loss) at head of front flap. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Reg Gadney with my best wishes John Fowles Lyme Regis 14/3/99"; loosely inserted the printed programme, single sheet folded, for the Bush Theatre Club's production of The Collector, [1972]. "As stark as a police report, this novel opens with the confession of a young suburban clerk who has kidnapped an art student from outside her home in Hampstead. In his own colourless, yet curiously expressive words, Frederick Clegg tells how he held her prisoner in a remote house in the country, which he had bought for the purpose with money won in the football pools . . ." (publisher's blurb). Tom Maschler tells in his memoir Publisher (2005) of his first meeting with John Fowles. Maschler was then a young director at Jonathan Cape, Fowles a schoolmaster in north London. "I told John how much I had admired The Collector and then, without further ado, I asked the question which most preoccupied me: 'Is this your first book?' The answer came back immediately: 'Good God, no.' 'You have written others?' 'Yes.' 'How many?' 'Nine.'" Maschler went on to publish rewritten versions of two of these, The Magus and The French Lieutenant's Woman. "It is quite possible," asserted The Times's anonymous reviewer (23 May 1963), "greatly to admire a book and at the same time to dislike it intensely; and this may be many people's reaction to Mr. John Fowles's claustrophobic first novel . . . The Collector is a most efficiently appointed book, but as dank and unhealthy as the cellar it describes." Reg Gadney, himself a novelist, was the second husband of Fay Maschler, first wife of Tom Maschler (they married in 1970 and divorced in 1987). Fowles was godfather to the Maschlers' daughter Alice. The Collector, adapted by David Parker and directed by John Neville, was the first production mounted by the new Bush Theatre Club at Shepherds Bush Green, London. It opened on 6 April 1972, starring Brian McDermott as Clegg and Annette André as Miranda.
Seller: James Fergusson Books & Manuscripts, London, United Kingdom
Fowles, John. THE COLLECTOR. Jonathan Cape, London, 1963.
Price: US$977.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 283 pages. Pages v/g condition. PInk top edges. Rust colored cloth, tail of spine and bottom edges lighlty bumped. Gilt title on spine. Beige and white dust jacket illsutrated in color on upper cover. DJ price clipped. NF/NF
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Fowles, John. The Collector. Jonathan Cape, London, United Kingdom, 1963.
Price: US$994.40 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First UK Edition, First Print. Pp. 282. Maroon boards. This is a true UK first edition (First Impression) with 'First published in 1963' and no reprint statement to the copyright page. A very good copy with tape shadow marks to corners of end pages. In original first state jacket without reviews, jacket, corners clipped although not price clipped. Internally clean pages a touch of spotting to foreedge. Signed by the author John Fowles to the title page. Laid in is a typed card from John Fowles agreeing to sign books for the owner. The card is also signed by the author John Fowles.
Seller: Kelleher Rare Books, Naas, IE, Ireland
FOWLES, John.. The Collector.. Jonathan Cape, London, 1963.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: 283 pp. 8vo, publisher's boards in dust jacket. First edition, in the first dust jacket. Slight bump to one corner; otherwise a fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Author's first book.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
FOWLES, John.. The Collector.. London, Jonathan Cape 1963., 1963.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition ( the likely first issue, in variant black cloth). Hardcover. Neat ownership signature at the top corner of the front free endpaper, and date (1964) at the bottom corner, otherwise fine in very fine price-clipped dustjacket (the majority of black cloth copies are price- clipped jackets) with a couple tiny professionally closed tears at the head of the spine, wonderfully illustrated in colour by Tom Adams. The author's important first novel, a psychological thriller about a repressed clerk and butterfly collector who spends a fortune won at the football pools on the kidnapping of a female art student (a similar theme has been used subsequently by Thomas Harris in "The Silence of the Lambs", and by scores of modern writers of pyschological thrillers, usually with less emphasis on the pyschology and atmosphere and more on the perverse violence and forensics). Made into a William Wyler film in 1965, starring Terence Stamp and Samantha Eggar. This is a copy in charcoal-coloured (black) papered boards, no top edge stain, of which maybe a dozen copies have been noted in the last 60 some years. This was most likely a trial or variant binding, rather than an issue of any substantial number. The charcoal-papered binding was a standard "house cloth" for Cape at the time (used on most of the Ian Fleming 'Bond' books, for example), and it is probable the bindery BEGAN the production of the case in the charcoal colour before directions were given for the rust-coloured binding and matching top edge stain of the standard issue, which is perhaps a slightly better match for the predominately cream-coloured jacket. On the other hand, the variant charcoal-coloured boards match the large key in Adams' illustration, as well as the black lettering of "The Collector" on the front panel and spine of the jacket, so the chance first issue is every bit as aesthetically pleasing as the standard issue. The bibliographical importance of all this is debatable, but the scarcity of the black cloth issue is not in question (in a ratio of maybe 1/100 for the rust-coloured standard version).
Seller: Larsen Books, Exeter, NSW, Australia
John Fowles. The Collector. Jonathan Cape, 1963.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The Collector, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket, light sunning to spine, light rubbing and creasing to spine ends and corners, near-fine otherwise, 8vo. Highly collectible copy of Fowles' famous debut novel.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
FOWLES, JOHN. The Collector. Jonathan Cape 1963, 1963.
Price: US$1073.79 + shipping
Description: First edition, uncorrected proof copy, very scarce! Octavo, patterned light card covers, black lettering to spine, 283pp, VG- (heavy creasing to spine with 2.5cm loss to bottom spine extrem, heavy sellotape repair to full spine, moderate scuffing to cover edges with light surface loss, light tea cup stain to front cover, moderate foxing & tanning to page edges, owners' names in ink to fep, some annotation to pages in pencil throughout)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Fowles, John. The Collector -- Uncorrected Proof in Rare Dust Jacket. Jonathan Cape, London, 1963.
Price: US$1350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Scarce uncorrected proof copy of Fowles' famous first novel. Near-fine with light creasing to spine, otherwise bright and clean inside and out. In a near-fine example of the rare proof dust jacket with a touch of soiling to the rear panel. Housed in a custom-made slipcase. 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.
Seller: Magus Books of Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Fowles, John. The Collector. London: Jonathan Cape, 1963.
Price: US$1400.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first printing of the author's first book. Presentation copy, signed and inscribed by Fowles to the front endpaper: "To Margaret Davies/ with the author's regards/ John Fowles/ [crossed out number] October 1st, 1963/ Cheltenham." Original publisher's orange cloth, spine lettered in gilt; original first issue dust jacket, designed by Tom Adams. About fine with a slight lean to spine; in an unclipped dust jacket with a very slight touch of toning the upper spine ends and some mild toning to rear panel, and two tiny abrasion at front panel and spine, else fine. A beautiful inscribed copy of the author's scarce first book. The Collector is a chilling psychological thriller that puts the reader into the mind of both abductor and captive. The story follows the abduction of Miranda Gray, a middle-class art student, by Frederick Clegg, a lonely and psychotic young clerk. Believing Miranda will fall in love with him in time, he keeps her captive in his basement, where he keeps his butterfly collection. Aspects of the story can be interpreted as commentary on the changing class structure of 1960s England, as it "dramatizes the clash between a socially entrenched, wealthy middle class and an underprivileged but upwardly mobile working or lower middle class." John Fowles' first book, The Collector was a sensation and was adapted into a film by the same name soon after publication.
Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Fowles, John. THE COLLECTOR. Jonathan Cape, London, 1963.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: Inscribed first printing of the still-shocking story of captivity and resistance. Fowles's first published novel, a brutal work whose end is promised in its beginning, and which keeps every promise it makes. Full of allusions to THE TEMPEST - the Collector takes the false name Ferdinand; his captive records him as Caliban - and with a certain thematic resemblance, THE COLLECTOR explores in a modern setting the violent enactments of class and gender hierarchies present in that play. Written in two first-person narratives: one by a young man who comes to believe that his personal disappointments entitle him absolutely to ownership of a human being; and the other by the woman he kidnaps, whose tireless efforts to escape and maintain dignity are no use to her, who fights with every ounce of ingenuity she possesses, and loses. THE COLLECTOR is a novel in some ways wiser than its writer, and certainly wiser than its contemporary critics, for whom sympathy for a misogynist still passed as daringly provocative, and to whom psychological proximity to a killer was a thrill of sorts. But the intimacy of the dual narration sets a trap for the unwary, for those primed to love an anti-hero: sympathy for the Collector himself is a temptation set out for the reader desperate for an escape, ready to flee from horror, into the cozier space of the winning side. The victim's perspective was, and is, simply too much for some critics to bear; her situation too hard to keep company with, though the novel's greatest treasures are found there. THE COLLECTOR's real genius lies in Fowles's own cold and fearless gaze: in life, he seems to say, the good and the brave do exist; dignity and courage, wit and nerve, even innocence, these are all real; and hope, of all the virtues, is the one that dies hardest and last. 7.5'' x 5''. Original rust-orange cloth. In original unclipped (18s.) dust jacket. 283 pages. Inscribed by Fowles on title page: "Don Klein / John Fowles, Lyme Regis". Minor edgewear to boards. Jacket rear panel faintly foxed; toned along edges.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
John Fowles. The Collector Signed John Fowles Variant Black Boards. Jonathan Cape, UK, 1963.
Price: US$1610.33 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Collector Signed by John Fowles First Edition Jonathan Cape 1963 Variant Black Boards. With the scarce variant black boards. No inscriptions, no foxing or toning. A VG+ book with faint mark to front cover (see image) in the seldom seen black variant boards. In like dust jacket, not price clipped. SIGNED by John Fowles directly to title page without dedication.
Seller: Brought to Book Ltd, London, United Kingdom
Fowles, John. THE COLLECTOR. Jonathan Cape, London, 1963.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition in brown boards [preceded by a very rare first issue in black boards]. Crown 8vo, pp. 283. First edition in a very fine, first state [p/c] dustwrapper without reviews [this dustwrapper review thing is a red herring - no one has ever seen any other "first edition" dustwrapper]. A very fine exceptional copy of Fowles's breakthrough novel.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
FOWLES, John.. The Collector.. London Jonathan Cape, 1963.
Price: US$1815.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, signed & dated by the author; 8vo; publisher's brick red cloth, titles to spine gilt, brown topstain, pictorial dust jacket with artwork by Tom Adams, a near-fine copy in the minimally rubbed dust jacket with a few marks to the rear panel. A very good first edition of John Fowles' landmark first book, inscribed in the year of publication, 'John Fowles, 1963'; such coeval inscriptions are distinctly uncommon. The jacket design by Tom Adams hints darkly at the novel's contents.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Fowles, John. THE COLLECTOR. Jonathan Cape, London, 1963.
Price: US$18000.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition. Hardcover. True First Edition in Black Boards. Crown 8vo, pp. 283. An exception copy of what is likely the original trial or advance binding preceding the usual brown cloth. In all likelihood a miniscule number of these black cloth bindings were distributed. Judging from the handful that have turned up over the last decade, perhaps as few as a couple of dozen. A fine copy in a very fine, bright price-clipped dustwrapper [All copies of the black binding have had their wrappers price-clipped]. Curiously there is the slightest variance in ink colour in the dustwrapper of this issue, more cyan & less magenta perhaps but there it is, none-the-less. Likely a function of the earliest part of the press run being responsible for the variation. A very fine exceptional copy of Fowles's breakthrough novel.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada