Fowles, John — Mantissa

New York, Little, Brown, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean interior but for previous owner's inscription at first free endpaper, with minimal rubbing to extremities, and with slight forward cock to spine, sunning along edges, faint. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, moderately worn along edges, protected by a plastic coat. An odd novel by a self-absorbed novelist, revolving around the putative sufferings of a poorly disguised novelist that are imposed on him by his seeming muse. By the author of the French Lieutenant's Woman, this being mostly dialogue with a very thin, if inventive plot. Stated First Edition. 195 [1] pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good/Very Good,