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Little, Brown. Used - Good. Good condition. Paperback edition.

Little Brown & Co (T), 1978-04. Hardcover. Good.

Little Brown & Company. hardcover. Interior is excellent. 9x6x1. cover is worn on corners and spine tips and discolored on front cover

New York: Dell, 1967 Book. Fine. Pbk.. Reprint.. Nick Urfe, a young British schoolteacher, travels to the Greek island of Phraxos for a vacation. There he manages to wander into a series of misadventures and confusions that bring the stability of his world into doubt. A careless flirtation with another tourist leads to a messy affair, and a chance introduction brings him under the influence of an enigmatic, elderly recluse who stands at the center of an oddly sinister cult..

Little Brown & Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1978. First US Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0316290920 . Very light tanning/staining to fore-edges; light coverwear; Weight: 1.5 Pounds; 656 pages .

Hardback. Acceptable.

London, Panther books, 1984, 656p, paperback -

London: Picador (Pan Books), 1977 The Magus is rich, theatrical entertainment of the highest order, set in the shimmering light of Greece and packed with a constant parade of events, real and surreal, as good and evil compete in changing and infinitely surprising forms. ------------- 656 pages evenly tanned with age. Cover slightly shelf-scuffed Size: Approx 4" Wide and 7" Tall

Little Brown & Company. hardcover. Very Good. 9x6x3. Hardcover. Very Good Minus/ Very Good dust jacket. Free of any markings and no writings inside. Clear text. Minor shelf-wear. Foxing on edges and jacket on front and spine. For any additional information or pictures, please inquire.

Boston: Little, Brown And Company, 1978 Stated First American Edition. This S A Revised Edition With A Foreword By The Author. No Marks Or Inscriptions. Very Clean. Red Cloth Covered Boards With A Darker Red Image Of The Magus On The Front Board And Bright Gilt Title On The Spine. The Dj Is Price Clipped And Very Slightly Shelf Worn But In Generally Good Condition. Heavier Book, May Require Extra Shipping.

Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Little Brown & Company, 1977. Soft cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Very large, thick, heavy softcover, glossy white wrappers with color-illustration of ram's head with candle at top front, b/w photo of Fowles on all of back wrapper, 656 pages. Tiny crease at top front tip, spine lightly browned, light wear along back edges. One of the most remarkable novels ever written--worthy of a life's study. Near Fine.

London: Triad Panther, 1977 The Magus is rich, theatrical entertainment of the highest order, set in the shimmering light of Greece and packed with a constant parade of events, real and surreal, as good and evil compete in changing and infinitely surprising forms. ------------- 656 pages. Cover slightly shelf-scuffed. Size: Approx 4" Wide and 7" Tall

Jonathan Cape London, 1977, first impression of the revised edition,. /Dust Jacket Included. 1977. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 0224013920 1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 656pp, pictorial endpapers, pages browning throughout, otherwise clean and sound, no inscriptions, Good / Fair dustwrapper, wrapper edges rubbed and scuffed, spine faded, not price-clipped, ISBN: 0224013920 .

Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1978 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st US Edition. Nick Urfe, a young British schoolteacher, travels to the Greek island of Phraxos for a vacation. There he manages to wander into a series of misadventures and confusions that bring the stability of his world into doubt. A careless flirtation with another tourist leads to a messy affair, and a chance introduction brings him under the influence of an enigmatic, elderly recluse who stands at the center of an oddly sinister cult. The preface to this edition states : A number of scenes have been largely rewritten, and one or two new ones invented. These revisions serve to accelerate the pace of the alluring, uncanny events on the beautiful Aegean island of Phraxos, to accentuate the deviousness of the Magus, or magician, himself, Maurice Conchis, and to intensify the erotic elements of the book. 656p. .

Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Used - Good. Good condition. Revised edition. Paperback edition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

London,: Jonathan Cape,, 1977. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. Light marks to cover otherwise very good in a slightly edge-worn and spine-faded, very good, unclipped dust jacket. Very faint ink name to half-title.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1977 . Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed. 8.5" by 6". None. The revised edition of John Fowles's celebrated postmodern novel, reviewed by the Sunday Times as a 'deliciously toothsome celebration of wanton story-telling'. The first impression of the revised edition of Fowles's novel, published eleven years after the first edition.In the publisher's original price clipped dust wrapper.'The Magus' is John Fowles's postmodern novel about Nicholas Urfe, a young man who is teaching English on a small Greek island and becomes embroiled in the psychological illusions of a master trickster.Considered an example of metafiction, this was Fowles first written novel, but his third to be published.A lovely work by Fowles, the renowned British novelist of works positioned between modernism and postmodernism, best known for 'The French Lieutenant's Woman', 'A Maggot', and 'The Collector'.With the stamp 'International Bookshop 25OCT1977' to the reverse of the dust wrapper back strip. In the… Read More

A fully revised version of Fowles's 1965 novel, his third, which he returned to with stylistic and tonal variations.
A young English schoolteacher, Nicolas Urfe, accepts a teaching assignment in Greece to escape his relationship with his girlfriend and to add a novel element to his life.
Through a fantastic series of games, hallucinations, parables, theatrical masques, riddles, and mock trials, Nicholas is drawn into a saturnalian labyrinth by a holy man, Maurice Conchis.

A great novel.

Hardcover, with excellent jacket, with slight toning to front.

Boston: Little Brown & Company. 1978. Revised Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. 0316290920 . Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. ; 9.4 X 6.0 X 1.6 inches; 656 pages .

New York: Little Brown & Co. 1977. Revised Edition. Hardcover. 0316290920 . Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Light stain on top text block edge. Toning on front pastedown and FEP. ; 9.4 X 6.0 X 1.6 inches .