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$225.00Zurich: Manesse (1956). First edition. 4to. Small bump to one corner of rear board, else very near fine in near fine dust jacket with light wear to the base and crown of spine, and a crease to the front flap. Text by Paul Bowles with Haberlin’s photographs. Translated from the English by Maria Wolff. Miller A8a.$125.00Bolinas: Tombouctou, 1983. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 98 pp. Fine in full blue cloth with gilt stamping to spine and front cover. No dust jacket, as issued. Short stories. One of 100 copies SIGNED by Bowles and Mrabet.$150.00Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1976. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 100 pp. Some foxing along top edges, else very near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. Taped and translated from the Moghrebi by Paul Bowles. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Bowles and Mrabet. This is copy #1. Morrow & Cooney 243c.$350.00Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1976. First edition, publisher’s copy. 125 pp. Foxing along top edges, else near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Near fine acetate dust jacket. Designated “Publisher’s Copy” and SIGNED by Bowles and Mrabet.$45.00Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1976. First trade paperback printing. 125 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Taped and translated from the Moghrebi by Paul Bowles. Morrow & Cooney 230a. Review slip laid in.$125.00Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1976. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 125 pp. Near fine in paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Very near fine acetate dust jacket. Taped and translated by Bowles. One of 250 numbered copies SIGNED by Mrabet and Bowles. Morrow & Cooney 230c.$50.00NY: George Braziller (1968). First US edition. 198 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a short tear and light wear along the top edge. Translated from the original Moghrebi by Bowles.$300.00Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1980. First edition, publisher’s copy. 86 pp. Light foxing along top edge, else near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. Taped and translated from the Moghrebi by Paul Bowles. Designated “Publisher’s Copy” on the colophon page and SIGNED by Bowles and Mrabet.$450.00Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1977. First edition, publisher’s copy. 77 pp. Some foxing to top edges, else very near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. Taped and translated from the Moghrebi by Paul Bowles. Designated “Publisher’s Copy” on the colophon page and SIGNED by Bowles and Mrabet.$125.00Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1977. First edition. 77 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. Taped and translated from the Moghrebi by Paul Bowles. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Bowles and Mrabet. Morrow & Cooney 264c.$50.00Santa Barbara: Cadmus Editions 1979. Advance review copy. 89 pp. Fine in plain light brown wrappers. “Advance Review Copy” stamped in blue ink on the front cover, along with a pasted-on review slip.
$75.00Tiburon: Cadmus Editions (1997). First edition, numbered & signed issue. 117 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket with lightly sunned spine. Rey Rosa’s original Spanish novella with a facing English translation by Paul Bowles (to whom the book is dedicated). One of 150 numbered copies SIGNED by Rey Rosa and Bowles.$125.00Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1979. Advance reading copy. 417 pp. Top edge foxed, else near fine in printed wrappers with pasted on cover label. Stamped “Advance Review Copy” on the front free endpaper.$250.00Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1979. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 417 pp. Top edges foxed, else near fine in printed paper-covered boards and cloth spine with printed label. Near fine acetate dust jacket. One of 300 numbered copies SIGNED by Bowles. This is copy #1.$20.00NY: Ecco (1991). First edition. 106 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.$15.00NY: Ecco (1991). First edition. 108 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with light vertical crease to front flap.$450.00Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1980. First edition, publisher’s copy. 292 pp. Foxing along top edges, else near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. Designated “Publisher’s Copy” on the colophon page and SIGNED by Bowles.$125.00Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1980. Advance reading copy. 292 pp. Foxing along top edge, else very near fine in light blue wrappers with pasted-on cover label. Stamped “Advance Copy” on the front free endpaper. One of ten copies. Miller A6e (note).$150.00Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1980. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 292 pp. Foxing along top edge, else near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. New preface by Bowles, “Thirty Years Later,” composed for this reissue. One of 350 numbered copies SIGNED by Bowles. Miller A6g. This is copy #1.
$300.00NY: League of Composers 1939-1944. Nine issues, all near fine in stapled wrappers. In addition to sitting on the “Composers’ Committee,” Bowles was a frequent translator and contributor from 1931 to 1946. Out of thirty or so citations, this batch includes Miller C95, C100-1, C107-8, C109, C110, C111, C134-5, C279, and C350. For the lot:$35.00Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1981. First trade paperback printing. 73 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers.
$350.00Santa Barbara: Cadmus Editions (1981). First edition, numbered & signed issue. Two LPs, both fine, in fine linen sleeve. Cover illustration by Brion Gysin. Colophon sheet and Erratum slip present. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Bowles.$150.00NY: Random House (1955). First edition. 406 pp. Fine in very near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with a touch of wear to crown.$125.00Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1982. First printing of this second edition (originally published in 1955). 406 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Near fine acetate dust jacket. One of 1000 trade hardcover copies. Undescribed variant issue, with a black cloth spine, and pale ivory paper for the boards and spine label.$125.00NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1967). First edition. 215 pp. Light fade to topstain, else fine in fine dust jacket. Miller A16.
$75.00Bolinas: Tombouctou, 1988. First trade edition. 86 pp. Fine in full black cloth with gilt stamping to spine and front cover. No dust jacket, as issued.$45.00Montreal: DC Books (1971). First edition, numbered & signed issue. 76 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with lightly sunned spine. One of 25 numbered copies SIGNED by Boxer from a hardcover edition of 50.$15.00Trumansburg: Crossing Press (1973). First edition. 41 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Poems with graphics by David Sykes and an illustration by Zevi Blum.$25.00NY: Macmillan (1977). First edition. 214 pp. One lower board edge bumped, else fine in near fine dust jacket. Boyd's second novel.$15.00[Venice]: Yarmouth Press, 1980. First edition. 68 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Barbara A. Holland, Lyn Lifshin, David Trinidad, Guy R. Beining, and others.$35.00Fort Smith: South and West (1962). First edition. 40 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Cover design by Carolyn Tyson. Boyd’s second book.$35.00Fort Smith: South and West, 1964. First edition. 31 pp w/contents & biography. Fine in stapled wrappers. Cover design by Hans Juergensen. Third book by the founder of “South and West.” Original mailing envelope present.