THE SHELTERING SKY

by Paul Bowles

$2,500 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix

First edition

London: John Lehman, 1949 . First printing. First edition of Bowles's first novel, the grim and enduring twentieth-century classic of alienated Americans wandering through North Africa towards destruction. Very good plus in very good plus jacket. Item #50936 Bowles's masterpiece, often praised as pitiless and dazzling, like the sun - beautiful, but not good for the eyes - was written in

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