The Sheltering Sky
London: John Lehmann, 1949. Very Good. Item #7964
London: John Lehmann, 1949. First Edition. Octavo. 304 pages. Original cloth with blue spine label and stamped in gilt. Lacks dust jacket.
Boards lightly worn at extremities with brief exposure. Faded at spine and along edges. Soiling to bottom of spine with some faint general staining. Binding is sound. Front free endpaper worn from overzealous erasing from previous owner, and interior unmarked. Overall a very good copy of Bowles' landmark novel of alienation and despair of which Tennessee Williams wrote, "it brings the reader into sudden, startling communion with a talent of true maturity and sophistication."
Price: $400.00