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Brand new book. Original packaging. Never opened. Signed by the Illustrator David Alvarez and by Bradford Morrow who wrote the introduction. In a quarter leather binding with Corkskin paper sides that were handmade in Portugal. The cover features a letterpress printed label on Hahnemuhle Bugra. Printed letterpress on Mohawk Superfine with Hahnemuhle Bugra endsheets. Housed in an embossed paper covered slipcase with an acrylic topcoat. Original print included. Not sold together with the book.

The Collector is the debut novel of English author John Fowles. It was first published in 1963 by Jonathan Cape and is about a lonely young man, Frederick Clegg, who works as a clerk in a city hall and collects butterflies in his spare time. Clegg is infatuated with Miranda Grey, a middle-class art student at the Slade School of Art. Unable to make any contact with her but obsessed with his unrelenting desire, Clegg decides to add her to his 'collections' by kidnapping her and holding her captive in the cellar of his rural farmhouse. What follows is a chilling exploration of power, art, freedom, and the consequences of human actions.