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FOWLES, John. The Aristos. A Self-Portrait in Ideas. Orig. boards, dust jacket. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., [1964]. First American edition, precedes the English edition. A very fine copy. Scarce.
The Aristos. A Self-Portrait in Ideas by Fowles, John - 1964
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The Aristos. A Self-Portrait in Ideas
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Boston: Little, Brown, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Dust jacket has edgewear, rubs, a little rufffling and a small spot on front. Spine and edges are lightly tanned. Non-fiction book of Fowles' feelings about our "Age of Extremes" & the pressures to conform.
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- Date Published 1964
- Keywords Modern Firsts Philosophy
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London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. First edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good Indeed. 8" by 5". None. A fine first edition of John Fowles' second published work, a collection of over one-thousand philosophical aphorisms. The first edition, first impression, with no subsequent impressions listed.In the original publisher's unclipped dust wrapper.A collection of several hundred philosophical aphorisms by John Fowles, with a total of 1,405 short insightful pieces. Fowles describes 'The Aristos' as a self-portrait of himself through his ideas, a literary statement of his reaction to the situation he existed in.In form this work is modelled on the 'Pensees' of Pascal, with some concepts of Heraclitus, and the spirit of Montaigne. This was the second published work by Fowles, following from his hugely successful novel 'The Collector'. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart. Very minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities.…
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