Durfort, Claire De. Ourika. Translation into English with an Epilogue by John Fowles. Small 4to, morocco-backed blue flamed paper-covered boards. One of 500 numbered copies signed by Fowles. Fine copy. Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1977 E250-350 First

Durfort, Claire De. Ourika. Translation into English with an Epilogue by John Fowles. Small 4to, morocco-backed blue flamed paper-covered boards. One of 500 numbered copies signed by Fowles. Fine copy. Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1977 E250-350 First American Edition and the First English Translation of the first European book with a black heroine. Outika' was originally published anonymously in Paris in 1824 The story is based on a Senagalese girl, freed from slavery and raised by an aristocratic French family.