The Sheltering Sky

  • London: John Lehmann, 1949
By Bowles, Paul
London: John Lehmann, 1949. First Edition. Good. First edition. 304 pp. Original cloth with with blue title label, gilt lettering. Good, lacking dust jacket. Cloth well-sunned and worn along edges, a little frayed here and there, boards a bit warped, two tiny pen marks. Internally in better shape with pages free of marking. One of only 4,000 copies printed of the author's first novel, a story of an American couple out of their depths in North Africa.

Details

Title

The Sheltering Sky

Author

Bowles, Paul

Condition

Good

Publisher

John Lehmann: London

Date

1949

Edition

First Edition


MORE FROM THIS SELLER

Burnside Rare Books

2505 SE 11th Ave., #300
Portland, OR 97202

Specializing in General antiquarian with a focus on Modern Literature,Signed, Non-Fiction and Cocktail books