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A fine first edition copy of John Fowles' debut novel, with the author's signature loosely inserted. The first edition, first impression, with no subsequent printings listed.Signed to a loosely inserted slip of paper.In the original publisher's unclipped dust wrapper.'The Collector' is an unsettling novel, following a psychotic young man who wins the lottery and uses the money to buy an isolated house. He becomes increasingly obsessed with an art student, Miranda Grey, eventually kidnapping her and keeping her locked in his cellar.Only two years after this publication, the novel was adapted into an Academy Award nominated film.The success of this novel allowed John Fowles to quit his teaching career to focus full-time on his writing. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Dust wrapper is very lightly edge worn with a few minor marks. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine.

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.