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Published by Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, 1979
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. First edition. 145, [2] pp. Bound in publisher's illustrated boards with red cloth backstrip, paper title label. Fine in original acetate wrapper, slightly cloudy. A collection of stories by five Moroccan authors, all except Choukri's being spoken texts only. American novelist and composer Paul Bowles transcribed them, his writing talents coming in handy to create a very different sort of short story than American readers are typically used to: very unpretentious and oddly entrancing. Mrabet, Choukri, and Layachi (initially writing as Driss Ben Hamed Charhadi) all wrote a number of books, most translated by Bowles.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First edition. 8vo. A collection of short fiction by five African writers edited and translated by Paul Bowles. One of 200 copies. SIGNED by Bowles and three of the contributors. Light foxing to top edge else a fine copy in acetate wrapper.