NMLP P-037696 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

The Collector

John Fowles · Jonathan Cape (London) · 1963

Cape's first impression is bound in rust/orange cloth lettered in gilt on the spine with a matching top stain; a very small number of copies were bound in black, and precedence between the two bindings has not been established (one dealer asserts the black binding came first — treat the point as disputed)

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-037696 for "The Collector" by John Fowles (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-037696, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).