The Sheltering Sky

by Paul Bowles

$950 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

New York: New Directions, 1949. First American edition, first printing. 318 pp. Publisher's tan cloth, spine stamped in black and blue. Hint of reading wear, else Fine in a Very Good unclipped dust jacket, chipped at extremities, a little rubbed and toned, with a tiny stain to the back panel and tear near head. A classic of existential fiction set in North Africa. Item #140940100

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