The Sheltering Sky

by Paul Bowles

$600 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

London: John Lehmann, 1949. First edition. 304 pp. Original cloth with with blue title label, gilt lettering. Good, lacking dust jacket. Cloth well-sunned and worn along edges, a little frayed here and there, boards a bit warped, two tiny pen marks. Internally in better shape with pages free of marking. One of only 4,000 copies printed of the author's first novel, a story of an American couple out of their depths in North

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