Ourika

by Claire de Durfort, John Fowles

$125 · Offered by Between the Covers · No longer available

First edition · Signed

Hardcover. First American edition, and the first edition in English. Quarto. Quarter leather and pastepaper over boards. Translated into English with an epilogue by John Fowles. Fine. One of 500 copies Signed by John Fowles at the conclusion of the text on page 64. *Ourika* represents a number of important firsts: the first black heroine in a novel set in Europe, the first French literary work narrated by a black female protagonist, and according to John Fowles:

• Binding: Hardcover

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