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The Delicate Prey and Other Stories (signed By the author)
by Bowles, Paul
- Used
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
(New York, 1950): Random House. First Edition. Octavo. First printing signed by the author on the first leaf within the spider web design, 307pp. There are seventeen stories in this volume, all but one are set in Arab North Africa, the Far East or Latin America. They share an almost Gothic preoccupation with violence, particularly that violence arising out of the clash of the Westerner with the alien world of the West. Bound in rust cloth designed with a spider web in gray, spine lettering in black, silver and gilt, black endpapers top edge black, a very nice copy, near fine in good unclipped pictorial dust jacket with chipping to spine ends, corners and flap edges, some tiny, closed edge tears with old clear tape mends to underside of jacket and spine faded.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 023329
- Title
- The Delicate Prey and Other Stories (signed By the author)
- Author
- Bowles, Paul
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- (New York, 1950)
- Keywords
- North Africa Arab North Far Easy Latin America
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About the Seller
Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
Biblio member since 2006
Scottsdale, Arizona
About Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
Alcuin Books located in Old Town Scottsdale is a store with 15,000 serious books for the collector or scholar. We have ample parking in front of the store for those who wish to browse our holdings.
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- First Edition
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