BOWLES, Paul.

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Let It Come Down. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the first blank, "For Bill, (Tangier in the old days), and all my best, Paul, 7/II/69". The recipient was Dr William S. Gray Jr., the chair of the English department at Randolph-Macon College, Virginia, who had a large circle of literary friendships.In the 1960s, Gray joined Paul and Jane Bowles on a road trip through Madrid, Lisbon, Marrakesh, and finally Tangier, where the couple had lived since 1947.Let It Come Down is Bowles's second novel, centring on an American protagonist who begins a new life in the International Zone of Tangier.

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