The Sheltering Sky

by Paul Bowles

$3,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

Signed

New York: New Directions, 1949. First American edition. Neatly signed by Paul Bowles on half title. 318 pp. Publisher's tan cloth with blue and black stamping on spine. Near Fine with a little staining to edges, offsetting to endpapers, in a slightly toned, unclipped dust jacket with two small tears in spine panel, small tear to back panel bottom corner, easily Very Good+. The American expatriate's first and best-known

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