Product Description
John Fowles's personal copy of the limited edition, first edition of D. H. Lawrence's posthumously published novel about a young woman's romance with a free-spirited gipsy. The first edition of this work. A limited edition, with this being number 636 of 810 copies produced.Novelist John Fowles's personal copy, with his bookplate to the front pastedown, and his inscription to the front free endpaper. Fowles - critically positioned between modernism and postmodernism - is best known for his novels 'The Magus' and 'The French Lieutenant's Woman'.In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.Lawrence's work tells the story of Yvette Saywell, a sheltered young woman from an English vicarage whose repressed life in a conservative rural community is upended when she becomes fascinated by a free-spirited gipsy man. In the publisher's original paper covered boards, with unclipped dust wrapper. Boards bright, with back strip a touch age toned. Front joint starting, with board firmly held. Bookplate to front pastedown and inscription to front free endpaper. Dust wrapper back strip and wrap perimeters age toned, with a touch of rubbing to back strip, and small closed tear to head of front wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good
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