THE SPIDER'S HOUSE - UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY, SIGNED

by Paul Bowles

$550 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books

Signed

London: Macdonald & Co., 1957. First U.K. Edition. Bowles's third novel, set in the Moroccan city of Fez, which shows the city's many factions. The story is centered around an American writer who has more or less turned his back to the world, and the fifteen year-old son of a Muslim holy man. An uncommon title in the proof state – the first we've seen or handled – signed for the original owner during a visit

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