The Magus.

FOWLES, John.

$1,500.00

Item Number: 142119

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965.

First American edition, preceding the British edition by one year of the author’s most well-known work. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, bookplate of famed collector Rolland Comstock. Jacket painting by Tom Adams. Housed in a custom half morocco case.

The Sunday Telegraph called The Magus a major work of mounting tensions in which the human mind is the guinea-pig... Mr. Fowles has taken a big swing at a difficult subject and his hits...are on the bull's eye'." The Magus was quickly adapted into film starring Michael Cain, a "deliciously toothsome celebration of wanton story-telling... Before one quite realises what is happenings, one finds oneself no less avid for meanings and no less starving amid a plethora of clues than is Nicholas himself" (Sunday Times). It was named by Modern Library as one of the 100 Greatest Novels of the twentieth century, and in 2003, and was listed at number 67 on the BBC's survey The Big Read.