John Fowles — The Ebony Tower

London, Jonathan Cape, 1974 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of John Fowles's charming collection of five novellas and short stories. The first edition, first impression of this work, in the exceptionally bright publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper, illustrated with a fragment of Pisanello's fresco in the Ducal Palace of Mantua.Fowles presents five novellas and short stories each based upon medieval myth: The Ebony Tower, Eliduc, Poor Koko, The Enigma and The Cloud.A lovely first edition 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&apos. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Dust wrapper exceptionally bright. Minor edgewear to back strip head. Amateur ink restorations to dust wrapper at head and tail of flyleaf folds, and folds over joints. Minor tide mark to centre of back strip. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Near Fine.