Paul Bowles

The Spider's House [Signed and Inscribed to Bob Hines]

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1982. Very Good. Item #48754
ISBN: 087685546X

Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1982. First Black Sparrow Edition, one of 1000 trade copies issued simultaneously with the limited runs. Octavo (23.5cm); publisher's acetate dust jacket; illustrated paper-covered boards with red cloth spine and paper spine label;[x],406pp. Jacket edgeworn with a small chip at tail, bumping at bottom corners, and some general scuffing and dust-soiling to surface. Board square with a small bump at top front corner and rubbing along bottom edge. Binding sound and pages unmarked.

Signed by Bowles on full title with inscription "Paul Bowles, for Bob Hines / Tangier, 21/XI/90." Hines and his partner Jack Frick were friends of Tennesee Williams, who first urged them to visit Bowles in Tangier in 1965, saying "You'll adore Janie [Bowles' wife], and I've no doubt Paul's New England reserve will relax before your mannerly Southern charm. Things are cheap there. Bootleg liquor is $2.50 for a quart of the best Scotch. A piece of ass is two bucks and the swimming is great in the summer. You must go see them." Reprint of the 1955 Random House edition.

Ref: Carr, Virginia Spencer. Paul Bowles: A Life (2004).

Price: $100.00