The Sheltering Sky

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Lot 180 | The Sheltering Sky
The Sheltering Sky
Paul Bowles, 1949
BOWLES, Paul (1910-1999). The Sheltering Sky. London: John Lehmann, 1949.

First edition of the author’s first novel—an 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.”

Octavo. (A little foxing to edges.) Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket (light wear to spine panel ends); custom box.
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