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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$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.
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.
DeDURFORT, Claire (FOWLES, John). Ourika. Thomas Taylor, Austin, 1977.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Translated into English with an Introduction and Epilogue by John Fowles. Thin 4to, 1/4 blue morocco, over paste-paper boards. Austin: Thomas Taylor, 1977. Limited Edition. One of 500 copies,printed at the Bird & Bull Press, and signed by Fowles at the end of the Epilogue.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
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.