Bowles, Paul.

The Sheltering Sky.

London: John Lehmann, 1949. First edition of the author's landmark first book. Octavo, original cloth. Some fading to the spine cloth and extremities, a very good copy in a very good dust jacket with some chips to the crown and foot of the spine.

"The Sheltering Sky stands head and shoulders above most other novels published in English since World War II" (The New Republic).

Item #2167