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Fowles, John. The Nature of Nature. Yolla Bolly Press, Covelo, 1995.
Price: US$190.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine in original wrappers. Signed by Fowles. One of 275 copies.
Seller: Clayton Fine Books, Shepherdstown, WV, U.S.A.
FOWLES, John. The Nature of Nature: An Essay [Signed]. Yolla Bolly Press, Covelo, CA, 1995.
Price: US$220.00 + shipping
Description: One of 275 copies. Quarto; plain black wrappers; illustrated dustjacket; 99, [5]; illus. Signed by the author. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. First separate edition of this essay on nature, with a woodcut illustration by Aaron Johnson.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Copy 100 of 140 numbered copies from a total edition of 185 copies. Signed on the colophon by the author and illustrator. (116) pp. 4to; (10x8½") ; printed Belgian linen over boards, slipcase. Printed entirely letterpress on mouldmade English rag paper. With the Prospectus, in publishers printed mailing envelope. In this book, novelist John Fowles states that a large garden owns him, and that "All nature . . . Entrances me. The experience of it, the most important source of power in my life, like water to a mill . . . I cannot imagine life without it." He further proposes that Western science and philosophy have conditioned us to see the natural world as pieces, and the tendency to dismantle nature and attempt to control what is essentially whole, and perhaps spiritual, is the source of much human misery. So, a love story.
Seller: G.F. Wilkinson Books, member IOBA, GRASS VALLEY, CA, U.S.A.
Fowles, John. The Nature of Nature. The Yolla Bolly Press, Covelo, 1995.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Description: 99 pages. 25.5 x 22.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 20 of 185 signed by John Fowles and Aaron Johnson, printed on mouldmade Waterford paper. Belgian linen binding with eight full page colored woodblocks by Aaron Johnson. As the author notes, "Nature continues to fascinate, delight and teach me." Wide text margins. Orig. illustrated beige cloth. Fine in fine taupe slipcase
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Small Quarto (10 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches; 259 x 224 mm), ix, 99 pages, bound in Belgian linen cloth, and with a slipcase, paper label to spine. SIGNED in pencil by John Fowles and Aaron Johnson on the colophon page, 1 of 35 copies reserved for the author, artist, and Yolla Bolly Press (this is a Press copy). The entire edition totaled 185 copies, including 10 copies that were accompanied by a suite of prints.The book contains two essays, The Tree (first published in 1979) and The Nature of Nature. Aaron Johnson has contributed eight beautiful color woodcuts. The book itself is bound in Belgian linen and contains the image of tree branches. A beautiful production from Yolla Bolly Press. CONDITION: Fine in a Very Good slipcase that has some soiling and rubbing.
Seller: Le Bookiniste, ABAA-ILAB-IOBA, Hopewell, NJ, U.S.A.