Paul Bowles — The Sheltering Sky
London, John Lehmann, 1949. First edition. Cloth. A bright first edition, third impression of this novel by Paul Bowles. The first edition, third impression of this work. A novel telling of alienation and existential despair by American author Paul Bowles. Following the tale of Port Moresby and his wife Kit as they travel to the North African desert with their friend. First novel by this author.Complete with unclipped dust wrapper. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally lovely with minor shelf wear only, bumped to head and tail of spine and extremities. Dust wrapper excellent with minor shelf wear only, lightly sunned to spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Near Fine.
