THE SHELTERING SKY

by Paul Bowles

$3,500 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix · No longer available

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New York : New Directions, 1949 . First printing. Inscribed first US 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 jacket. Item #50941 Bowles's masterpiece, often praised as pitiless and dazzling, like the sun — beautiful, but not good for the eyes

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