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John Fowles. The Magus (1965 edition). Little Brown & Co, 1965.
Price: US$16.65 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: US Hard Cover Edition. Book is in good condition. Slight wear may be present on cover, pages, spine or corners. Minimal highlighting/writing may be present. Dustcover may be missing. Code is not included. Great buy!
Seller: Heisenbooks, Yardley, PA, U.S.A.
John Fowles. The Magus. Little, Brown & Co January 1965, 1965.
Price: US$17.89 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description:
Seller: Pelican Bay Books, Anacortes, WA, U.S.A.
Fowles, John. The Magus. Little Brown, 1965.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Green boards with some sunning. No dust wrapper.
Seller: Now and Again, albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
Fowles, John. The Magus. Little, Brown and Company, 1965.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardbound in green cloth titled in gilt. Boards are lightly edge worn with a several black smudges over surface. Binding square and secure. Red painted top edge slightly faded. Jacket included in fair condition; deeply toned, chipped around edges and rubbed over surface. Larger chip missing from crown and two 3 in. tears run from top folds of rear panel.
Seller: Chamblin Bookmine, Jacksonville, FL, U.S.A.
Fowles, John. The Magus. Little, Brown and Company, 1965.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 10.1 X 6.9 X 2.2 inches
Seller: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Fowles, John. The Magus. Little, Brown and Company, 1965.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: chipped and riubbed dj cover end spine edges.
Seller: Peasant Birch Booksellers, Newport, NH, U.S.A.
Fowles, John. The Magus. Little Brown, 1965.
Price: US$56.19 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.55
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
JOHN FOWLES. THE MAGUS. LITTLE BROWN, 1965.
Price: US$56.54 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: GREEN BOARDS ,RED LETTERING,CLEAN WITH SHARP CORNERS ,FADED SPINE ENDS,NO MARKS,SLIGHT LEAN TO SPINE,INTERIOR CLEAN TIGHT NO WRITING OR MARKS,BCE NO JACKET
Seller: Mikes Book Market, North Lancaster, ON, Canada
FOWLES, John. Magus, the. Little, Brown, Com. 1965, 1965.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 606pp; stated BOOK CLUB edition on bottom of front flap; it appears there was some tiny water stains on some of the pages at top edges; green boards and spine in good condition; dustjacket has some repaired tears a lot of rubbing that appears on in side of it; otherwise in FAIR COND
Seller: DR Fine Arts, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Fowles, John.. The Magus.. Little, Brown & Co, Boston, 1965.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First American Edition, First Printing. A Near Fine copy in dull green cloth (trace fading to edges of boards), text block pulled slightly, top edge stained magenta, in a Fine second issue dustwrapper, designed by Tom Adams. 582pp. Fowles' ambitious first novel, though published after The Collector. Q19548
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Fowles, John. The Magus. Little, Brown, Boston, 1965.
Price: US$79.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Green cloth titled in red, red topstain. Stated first edition. Cloth edges faintly sunned, points slightly bumped, spine a bit flattened/rubbed. Slight bleeding of topstain onto rear endpages. The DJ in mylar has internal tape reinforcement to spine ends, internal tape repair to a 7cm closed edge tear, slight insecting. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 582 pages
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Fowles, John. The Magus. Little Brown and Company, Boston, 1965.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Boston: Little Brown, 1965. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. 582 p. Author Fowles's second novel, published after his popular book The Collector, is set in the Greek Isles and takes the main character and reader on an unforgettable psychological journey. It was later issued in a revised edition in the 1970s, and adapted to a film starring Michael Caine. Jacket has moderate wear at head and tail of spine. Near fine in very good dust jacket in mylar cover.
Seller: Rose's Books IOBA, Harwich Port, MA, U.S.A.
Fowles, John. The Magus. Little Brown, 1965.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A good first edition in a good price clipped dust jacket.
Seller: The Lost Bookstore, Spartanburg, SC, U.S.A.
Fowles, John. The Magus. Little, Brown, Boston, 1965.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Small stain on outer edge of book block. Price-clipped dust jacket with two short tears.
Seller: By Books Alone, Woodstock, NY, U.S.A.
Fowles, John. The Magus. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1965.
Price: US$98.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Large complex imaginative novel set on Greek island of Phraxos with characters from Greek mythology. Green cloth boards with a bit of browning to the edges. Dust jacket has a few chips and creases. It is not price-clipped ($7.95), protected in removable transparency. Pages are clean with no marks or writing. First printing. 6½" - 9½".
Seller: Sekkes Consultants, North Dighton, MA, U.S.A.
Fowles, John. The Magus. Little Brown & Company, Boston, 1965.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: A very nice copy of the first edition, with very minor wear and soiling in an beautiful dust jacket that has some minor creasing. This title is becoming increasingly difficult to find in collectors condition.
Seller: Black Dog Books, Emerson, NJ, U.S.A.
Fowles, John. The Magus. Little Brown & Co, Boston, 1965.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A slender section of mild sunning to the top and bottom edges of the cloth, else a clean copy of the First Edition in an attractive jacket with pretty small tape ghosts on the flaps. ; 1.11 x 9.13 x 6.57 Inches
Seller: Gerry Kleier Rare Books, Martinez, CA, U.S.A.
Fowles, John. The Magus. Little Brown and Company, Boston, 1965.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Boston: Little Brown, 1965. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. 582 p. Author Fowles's second novel, published after his popular book The Collector, is set in the Greek Isles and takes the main character and reader on an unforgettable psychological journey. It was later issued in a revised edition in the 1970s, and adapted to a film starring Michael Caine. Previous owner name, else fine. Near fine in fine dust jacket, protected with an archival-quality mylar cover.
Seller: Rose's Books IOBA, Harwich Port, MA, U.S.A.
Fowles, John. The Magus. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1965.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, hardcover, has a very slight lean to the binding, mild bumps to the spine ends, minor wear to the cover edges and corners, a touch of rubbing to the covers, and some smudging to the edges of the text block. Overall, a Very Good copy in a Near Very Good, unclipped dust jacket, which has a bump with slight creasing to the head of the spine, light wear to the cover edges and corners, and mild sunning to the spine. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar.
Seller: Fahrenheit's Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Fowles, John. The Magus. Little, Brown, Boston, 1965.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Near fine (light wear to extremities of boards and one tiny, light stain to bottom edge) in very good price-clipped dust jacket with a short tear to top and bottom spine and fading to interior spine of dust jacket.
Seller: Clayton Fine Books, Shepherdstown, WV, U.S.A.
Fowles, John. The Magus. Little Brown, 1965.
Price: US$119.83 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good Copy. Fast Shipment
Seller: GoldenDragon, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Fowles, John. The Magus. Little Brown, 1965.
Price: US$119.84 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
Seller: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, U.S.A.
Fowles, John.. The Magus. Boston, Toronto: Little, Brown and Company,, 1965.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Large octavo, green cloth, purple titling on spine. First edition. Upper edge of book has light fading. In an uncut DJ with the price present. Some chipping to the jacket's spine ends.; there is a closed tear and some damp-stains visible on the front panel and its reverse. The reverse of the spine is discolored. The date "1/66" appears in ink on rear fold-in.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
Fowles, John. The Magus. Little, Brown & Co., 1965.
Price: US$140.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First printing in good condition. Bound in light green cloth showing sunning to front board and a couple of small yellow stains along spine. Top front corner is bumped. Tiny reddish stain to cloth at top corner of rear board. Light scuffing to bottom fore-edge of text block. Some fairly inconspicuous, pinkish staining along edges of the last few pages. Illustrated dust jacket shows edge wear, chipping, numerous small tears and areas of loss. Browning to underside of jacket, unclipped, in a mylar cover. 8vo. 582pp.
Seller: Chaparral Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Fowles, John. The Magus. Little, Brown & Co, New York, 1965.
Price: US$170.00 + shipping
Description: 582 pages. 24 x 16 cm. The first novel written (but second published) by British author John Fowles which is centered on a small Greek Island. Orig. lime green cloth, spine head and foot slightly toned. Very good in very good dust wrapper housed in clear plastic over wrapper
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Fowles, John. The Magus. Little, Brown, New York, 1965.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo., 582 pp. Fine in publishers green boards with gold lettering to spine. Very slight sunning, but in all other respects a fine tight copy. Dust jacket has chips to spine top and bottom and a 1" closed tear at spine tail. An intricate tale inadequately realized on screen. Beautiful dust jacket art. Shipped in a box, not a padded envelope.
Seller: Dubliners Books, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
Fowles, John. The Magus. Little Brown, Boston, 1965.
Price: US$180.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition. 8vo. 9 1/2" tall. Green cloth stamped in purple. Top page edges stained red. Bookplate on front pastedown. Clean. Tight. Nice dust jacket shows just some very slight wear at corners. Very good /near fine.
Seller: Cultural Connection, Cape Coral, FL, U.S.A.
Fowles, John.. The Magus.. Little, Brown & Co, Boston, 1965.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First American Edition, First Printing. A Fine copy in dull green cloth (trace fading to edges of boards), top edge stained magenta, in a Fine dustwrapper, not price-clipped, designed by Tom Adams. 582pp. Fowles' ambitious first novel, though published after The Collector. Q19547
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Fowles, John. The Magus. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1965.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First American edition, first printing. Publisher's green cloth, spine lettered in red, red top stain; original pictorial dust jacket designed by Tom Adams depicting characters from Greek mythology. Very good with some toning to spine, rubbing to lettering on spine, some soiling to the bottom edge; unclipped dust jacket with adhesive polyester film protective cover, some light wear to spine ends, tape remnants to rear flap. A bright and very good copy. 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.
Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Fowles, John. THE MAGUS. Little, Brown, 1965.
Price: US$232.00 + shipping
Description: THE MAGUS, Little, Brown, 1965, first edition, just about fine in vg+ or better full color wraparound pictorial dust-wrapper with some slight wear and tear. The authors second and most remarkable novel. A nice copy. Bookplate SIGNED by the author laid in.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Fowles , John. The Magus. Little, Brown, And Company, Boston, 1965.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Rubbing to dust jacket and small chips to dust jacket at top and bottom of spine. Modest fading to edges of cloth. The dust jacket is protected with a mylar cover .
Seller: The History Place, Palestine, TX, U.S.A.
John Fowles. Tha Magus. Little, Brown and Company, 1965.
Price: US$320.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket, just with the slightest sunning to the spine and the faint residue of a sticker on the front flap. An outstanding example of Fowles unusual and acclaimed postmodern work, chosen by the Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest works of the century.
Seller: Canton Books, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.
Fowles, John. The Magus. Little Brown, 1965.
Price: US$320.66 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting.
Seller: GF Books, Inc., Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.
Fowles, John. The Magus. Little Brown, 1965.
Price: US$320.67 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good condition. Shows only minor signs of wear, and very minimal markings inside (if any).
Seller: Book Deals, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Fowles, John. The Magus. Little Brown, 1965.
Price: US$346.42 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed
Seller: GoldBooks, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Fowles, John. The Magus. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1965.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 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.
Seller: Rio Bound Books, San Marcos, TX, U.S.A.
Fowles, John. The Magus. Little, Brown, Boston, 1965.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 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.
Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Fowles, John. The Magus. Little Brown, 1965.
Price: US$352.31 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New. Fast Shipping and good customer service
Seller: GoldenWavesOfBooks, Fayetteville, TX, U.S.A.
Fowles, John. The Magus. Little Brown, 1965.
Price: US$352.82 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New
Seller: Wizard Books, Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.
FOWLES, John. The Magus (Signed). Little, Brown, Boston, 1965.
Price: US$360.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Bound in green cottony cloth, stamped in red in a . Overall, a unusually nice copy of the true first ed. of Fowles' third book - precedes the British edition. Signed by the author on a bookplate that is laid in (the bookplate was signed in the 1970's). 582 pp.
Seller: Michael J. Toth, Bookseller, ABAA, Springtown, PA, U.S.A.
Fowles, John. The Magus. Little Brown, Boston, 1965.
Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 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!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
Fowles, John.. The Magus. (signed).. Little, Brown and Company., Boston., 1965.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Fowles, John. The Magus. Boston: Little, Brown and Company (1965). 1st Edition (stated). 9 ½ x 6 ¼. 582 pp. Green cloth lettered in brown. Color illustrated priced ($7.95 dust jacket. A delicate scratch on the top text block. The bottom of two pages have a tiny crinkle at the gutter. Not particularly noticeable but needs to be mentioned. Corners and spine ends not bumped, not worn. Binding tight, contents clean. The jacket has no tears, chips or wear. John Fowles signature and date (1996) on a small paper laid in. It is a nice copy. Sharp and tight. A luxurious psychological feast of a book set in the Greek isles.
Seller: Holly Books, South Windsor, CT, U.S.A.
Fowles, John. The Magus -- Signed Association Copy. Little Brown, 1965.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 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.
Seller: Magus Books of Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Fowles, John. The Magus -- Signed on the Day of Publication. Little Brown, 1965.
Price: US$2400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 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.
Seller: Magus Books of Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Fowles, John. The Magus, First Edition, SIGNED by the Author.. Little, Brown, Boston, 1965.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 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.
Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.