The Magus: A Revised Version
Irvine, California: Suntup Editions, 2023. Burckhardt, Marc. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Fine / Fine. Item #2355381
ISBN: 9781954848207
Limited edition, one of 250 copies signed by Christopher Priest, Eileen Warburton, and Marc Burckhardt. Designer's personal copy, with PC (denoting publisher's copy) in place of limitation number on colophon. Includes original publisher's clamshell case, publisher's bookmark (made specifically for this title) laid in. A couple faint scuffs to clamshell case, otherwise an exceptional copy. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.
xiii, 781 pp. Navy blue leather spine over blue cloth boards, gilt titles, color illustration mounted on front board, color frontispiece and plates by Marc Burckhardt, navy blue cloth clamshell case with leather label. Additional content for this edition: introduction by Christopher Priest, foreword and afterword - For Circe and All the Other Tomb-Robbers - by the author, The Magus: An Afterword by Eileen Warburton, A Conversation with John Fowles and Melvyn Bragg on the BBC's The Lively Arts, note on dust jacket art with fold-out color reproductions of Marc Burckhardt's jacket art for the artist edition by Suntup, as well as Tom Adams' cover painting for the original edition. Designed by the award-winning Mark Argetsinger. Suntup Editions released three limited editions of this work: an artist edition (unnumbered, but with a limitation stated on the colophon); numbered edition (numbered on the colophon), and lettered edition (lettered on the colophon). In general, Suntup's numbered and lettered editions are more elaborately designed, and signed by more contributors than the artist editions. Inspiration for the 1968 film starring Michael Caine, Anthony Quinn, Candice Bergen and Anna Karina. A man trapped in a millionaire's deadly game of political and sexual betrayal. Filled with shocks and chilling surprises, The Magus is a masterwork of contemporary literature. In it, a young Englishman, Nicholas Urfe, accepts a teaching position on a Greek island where his friendship with the owner of the islands most magnificent estate leads him into a nightmare. As reality and fantasy are deliberately confused by staged deaths, erotic encounters, and terrifying violence, Urfe becomes a desperate man fighting for his sanity and his life. A work rich with symbols, conundrums and labyrinthine twists of event, The Magus is as thought-provoking as it is entertaining, a work that ranks with the best novels of modern times.
Price: $900.00