LET IT COME DOWN

Published by Random House, New York, 1952

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Inscribed first US edition of Bowles's second novel, the story of a doomed American who comes to Tangier to fall apart. In LET IT COME DOWN, Nelson Dyar comes across the oceans from New York to know fear in Tangier, where neither drugs nor hot weather nor the many varieties of criminal depravity can save him from meeting the blank horror of his own existence and getting rained on. Inscribed by Bowles in Cleveland in the year after publication; a 1953 letter from Bowles records a recent visit to that city with Moroccan artist Ahmed Yacoubi. 8'' x 5.25''. Original half grey cloth with textured black paper cover, stamped in yellow, with mounted black and white illustration. Yellow topstain, yellow endpapers. In original unclipped ($3.50) pictorial dust jacket designed by E. McKnight Kauffer. 311, [1] pages. Inscribed by Bowles on front free endpaper: "for Frank O'Neill / after a long and / very enjoyable con - / versation. / Paul Bowles / Cleveland 11/10/53." Light soil to boards at spine. Minor rubbing at jacket at extremities, tiny chip to spine head, faint annotation to spine. Very good plus in very good jacket.

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Title
LET IT COME DOWN
Author
Bowles, Paul
Publisher
Random House, New York
Publication year
1952
Dust jacket
dj
Signed
Signed
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
First printing.
Dimensions
8'' x 5.25''.
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Type Punch Matrix is a rare book firm founded by Rebecca Romney and Brian Cassidy. Between them, they bring over 30 years of experience in the antiquarian book trade. TPM sells a mixture of beloved classics and innovative texts from throughout print history, for collectors and institutions alike. Handpress and modern books, archives and manuscripts, letterpress and ephemera: TPM aims to make collecting both more accessible and more diverse, and believes in the mindful acquisition, preservation, and celebration of the materials of our literary cultures.

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