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A very good and fresh edition of the first novel by John Fowles, signed by the author in the first month following publication. Tom Adams dust jacket.

A very good and fresh edition of the first novel by John Fowles, signed by the author in the first month following publication. Tom Adams dust jacket.

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author's first novel - signedA 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 da...

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