The French Lieutenant’s Woman. London: Jonathan Cape, 1969. First Edition. Pp, 445. Brown paper boards, wine coloured dust jacket lettered in gold, pictorial endpapers. A nice bright copy in price-clipped jacket with light wear to jacket edges.

Presentation copy inscribed by the Author to Australian writer John Baxter.

John Fowles third novel, “a brilliantly sustained allegory on the decline of the static Victorian ethos and on the birth of the 20th century passion for freedom.”