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One of 25 numbered, specially bound copies to commemorate the making of the movie and signed by the eight principals: the author (John Fowles), the screenwriter (Harold Pinter), the director (Karel Riesz), the leading actor (Jeremy Irons), the leading actress (Meryl Streep), the producer (Leon Clore), the art director (Assheton Gorton) and the photographer (Freddie Francis). Beautifully bound in full leather with marbled endpapers and all edges gilt. As new in publisher's slipcase, as issued. Additionally laid into a custom made clamshell box with leather label. Very few copies have ever come up for sale. The smallest limitation for any work by John Fowles or Harold Pinter. Most desirable and quite rare.

The French Lieutenant's Woman is a 1969 postmodern historical fiction novel by John Fowles. It explores the fraught relationship of gentleman and amateur naturalist Charles Smithson and Sarah Woodruff, the former governess and independent woman with whom he falls in love. The novel reflects the Victorian England period and questions the social and scientific issues of the time.