First trade edition. From the library of author Gore Vidal with an ink stamp attesting on front endpaper. COA is provided as well. A facsimile of Mr. Vidal's Ravello, Italy book label is laid-in. Fine in quarter cloth and boards in the publisher's un-printed acetate protective wrapper. Vidal provides a 5pp. Introduction. 750 copies printed. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 417 pages. Seller Inventory # 3113450

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Title: Collected Stories.

Publisher: Black Sparrow., Santa Barbara

Publication Date: 1979

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket

Edition: First Edition; First Printing.

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Short stories by an American expatriate deal with life in Morocco and Central America and focus on the themes of transference of personal identity, natural landscapes, and the perception of civilization by an outsider

About the Author:

Born in New York in 1910, Paul Bowles is considered one of the most remarkable American authors of the twentieth century. He studied music with composer Aaron Copland before moving to Tangier, Morocco, with his wife, Jane. His first novel, The Sheltering Sky, was a bestseller in the 1950s and was made into a film by Bernardo Bertolucci in 1990. Bowles's prolific career included many musical compositions, novels, collections of short stories, and books of travel, poetry, and translations. His other novels were The Spider's Nest, Up Above The World and Let It Come Down.

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