time friendship volume short stories de bowles paul (15 résultats)

Second printing. 8vo, pp. 215. VG in somewhat chipped and soiled dj.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good dj. Illustrated by (dj design) Paul Bacon (illustrateur). First Edition. [minor shelfwear, tiny spot on top edge of text block; the jacket is age-toned (mostly along the spine), has a tiny chip at the upper right corner of the front panel, and a couple of small scrape marks on the front panel]. Thirteen stories by Bowles, jacket-blurbed as his first collection of his short fiction to appear since 1950's "A Delicate Prey" -- except it wasn't. (It was preceded by two others, "The Hours After Noon" (1959) and "A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard" (1962).) Contents: "The Time of Friendship"; "The Successor"; "The Hours After Noon"; "A Friend of the World"; "He of the Assembly"; "The Story of Lahcen and Idir"; "The Wind at Beni Midar"; "The Hyena"; "The Garden"; "Doña Faustina"; "Tapiama"; "If I Should Open my Mouth"; "The Frozen Fields." (All had been previously published in various magazines and journals.).

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. First Edition. Stated First Edition - 1st printing - some wear to edge of dust jacket (now in mylar cover) some staining inside back dust jacket - minor staining to page edge - otherwise cover fine binding strong contents clean - enjoy.

Hardcover. Etat : Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. White cloth on boards with red geometric design to top half of front and red designs and titling to spine. Book is tight, square, sharp-cornered and free of major flaws or markings inside and out, other than some minor spotting to front and same to text block edges. Unclipped Dust jacket replicates the book with blue tone photo of author on back. Shows original price of $4.95 and is still in originally placed mylar jacket.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover in unclipped dustjacket. 215 pages. The author's first collection of short stories since "The Delicate Prey." A near fine dustjacket over a near fine book. Not price clipped. Not book. club. Ships in well-padded box.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. 215 pages, 8vo. SIGNED by Paul Bowles on title page. Stated First Edition. Jacket price is clipped. Shelfwear to DJ: scuffing along edges and covers, some light smudges on covers, 3-inch closed tear on front cover. DJ in mylar. Tight binding, no marks. Volume is in Very Good condition. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good+. First edition. 8vo. [6], 215, [3] pp. White paper boards lettered and decorated in red; blue topstain. Price of $4.95 on front flap of dust jacket. A Near Fine book in a bright Very Good+ dust jacket with a small closed tear to the top of the front panel and minor wear to the rear panel.

First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; white cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in red on spine and front panel; blue topstain; dustjacket; 215pp, [2]. Hint of sunning to upper board edges, with a few tiny spots of discoloration to topstain; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped and gently sunned at spine, else very Near Fine. Collection of 13 stories - the author's first since his 1950 collection The Delicate Prey.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. First edition. White cloth stamped in red. Spine and edges lightly toned, near fine in a near fine dust jacket with spine deeply toned. Advance Review Copy with publisher materials laid in including a black-and-white glossy photo of the author. A collection of 13 short stories.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. 1st Edition. DJ in archival cover, edge wear. Stated first edition.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. 2nd impression. Octavo. 215pp. Signed by Paul Bowles on tipped-in decal bookplate: "Paul Bowles/Tangier/4.I.81". Publisher's white/cream cloth with printed red titles and decoartion. Spine head and tail a little rubbed. In the dust wraapper designed by Paul Bacon. Some minor surface and edge wear including a few markings. Price clipped. Housed in plastic protective cover. Internally clean and bright. Overall a Very Good copy.

First Edition. Octavo. SIGNED by Bowles to half-title page. White cloth boards, with some fading, featuring red-stamped design; save for bump to top edge, close to near fine. In illustrated jacket, with toning and minor edge-wear; close to near fine.

BOWLES, Paul. The Time of Friendship: A Volume of Short Stories. Original decorated cloth, non-priceclipped dust jacket. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1967]. First edition. Presentation inscription from the author on the title page, "For Dr. Carr best, Paul Bowles, Tangier, 12/12/90." Virginia Spencer Carr wrote Paul Bowles: A Life (2004) with Bowles' complete cooperation. Jacket very lightly tone, else a fine copy.

First Edition. Quarto (28.5cm); photomechanically reproduced sheets, comb-bound into peach printed wrappers, with holograph publication date and price highlighted at upper right corner of front wrapper, and holograph number in grease pencil at lower right corner of same; [ii],148,[2]pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Light wear and subtle fading to extremities, with a few faint creases to wrappers; contents clean; Very Good+ or better. Bowles's first collection of short fiction since the publication of A Delicate Prey, gathering 13 stories. While no hard numbers are known for how many such proofs were printed, marketing materials for Crane from this period suggest they would not undertake a job printing fewer than 11 copies of a proof, with other known examples from this period numbering between two to three dozen. Uncommon, particularly signed. Miller A16.