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Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky, first edition
Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky, first edition
Item Details
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Author: Bowles, Paul
Title: The Sheltering Sky
Place Published: London
Publisher:John Lehmann
Date Published: 1949
Description: Gray cloth, spine blue and gilt, dust jacket. First Edition.First printing of Bowles‘ first and most famous novel.
Condition
jacket and cloth darkening, one stain to cloth spine, slight lean, textblock edges and several outer leaves including title foxed, gentle toning, gift inscription ffep; near fine in very good jacket.
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Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky, first edition

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