Lot 202
Bowles (Paul) The Sheltering Sky, first edition, 1949.
Hammer Price: £550
Description
Bowles (Paul) The Sheltering Sky, first edition, occasional light scattered foxing or spotting, slightly heavier to preliminaries, original cloth, spine lightly faded, ends a little frayed, dust-jacket, price-clipped, neat and expert restorations and repairs to head and tail, with small portion of spine supplied in facsimile, still in effect a sharp and excellent copy, 8vo, 1949.
⁂ Scarce first edition of the author's first novelan existential masterpiece. It was described in a contemporary review by Tennessee Williams as "an allegory of the spiritual adventure of the fully conscious person into modern experience."
Description
Bowles (Paul) The Sheltering Sky, first edition, occasional light scattered foxing or spotting, slightly heavier to preliminaries, original cloth, spine lightly faded, ends a little frayed, dust-jacket, price-clipped, neat and expert restorations and repairs to head and tail, with small portion of spine supplied in facsimile, still in effect a sharp and excellent copy, 8vo, 1949.
⁂ Scarce first edition of the author's first novelan existential masterpiece. It was described in a contemporary review by Tennessee Williams as "an allegory of the spiritual adventure of the fully conscious person into modern experience."
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