Five Eyes

by Paul Bowles, Abdeslam Boulaich, Mohamed Choukri, Larbi Layachi

$100 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1979. First edition. 145, 2 pp. Bound in publisher's illustrated boards with red cloth backstrip, paper title label. Fine in original acetate wrapper, slightly cloudy. A collection of stories by five Moroccan authors, all except Choukri's being spoken texts only. American novelist and composer Paul Bowles transcribed them, his writing talents coming in handy to create a very different

• Binding: Hardcover

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