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London: John Lehmann. Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's gilt-titled green cloth. Cloth edges mildly insected, block edge foxed. Small dampstain to cloth at heel, gilt a bit dulled. Firm binding. The DJ in mylar is slightly toned/soiled/foxed, damped to heel. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
A Little Stone: Stories [Signed] by Paul Bowles - 1950
by Paul Bowles
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A Little Stone: Stories [Signed]
by Paul Bowles
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London: John Lehmann, 1950. Very Good +/Very Good +. London: John Lehmann, 1950. First Edition in first state binding. Signed by Paul Bowles and dated Tangier - 16 / VIII / 93 without inscription on half title. Octavo (20.5cm); 222pp. Keith Vaughan-illustrated dust jacket with 9s. 6d. net price intact. Light green cloth boards with dark green spine label and gilt lettering to spine. Final two leaves uncut along majority of fore-edge. Jacket lightly rubbed with minor creasing along edges and mild rubbing to spine and rear. Boards very lightly shelfworn and sunned along edges. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Overall a Very Good or better copy of Bowles' first collection of stories, published a year after The Sheltering Sky.
- Bookseller Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (US)
- Book Condition Used - Very Good +
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- Publisher John Lehmann
- Place of Publication London
- Date Published 1950
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A Little Stone
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Northridge, California, United States
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A Little Stone
by Bowles, Paul
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New York, New York, United States
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€116.59
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London: John Lehmann, 1950. First UK Edition. 1950. Very Good+/Very Good+. A very nice copy in attractive pictorial DJ, with a light crease running down the front panel.
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A Little Stone
by BOWLES, Paul
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Wadsworth, Illinois, United States
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€163.22
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London: John Lehmann, 1950. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 222 pages. Bowle's second book of fiction, a collection of 12 short stories. A tight near fine copy in light green cloth boards with a former owner signature to the front free endpaper and in a very good price clipped dust jacket with some chips and tears to the spine ends and some faint spots to the rear panel. Still a pleasing copy of this early book from the author of the classic novel "The Sheltering Sky.
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A LITTLE STONE
by Bowles, Paul
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Westport, Connecticut, United States
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London: John Lehmann. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Dampstaining slightly to front board and significantly to rear board. Small open tear to rear of price clipped DJ. Browning to half-title page; Short story collection with an initial print run of only 3500 copies. Colorful Keith Vaughan jacket design; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 222 pages .
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A Little Stone
by Bowles, Paul
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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€172.55
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London: John Lehmann, 1950. First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine/fine. Small 8vo, green cloth in dust jacket and in black cloth slipcase. Book near fine with just a touch of tiny fox marks sprinkled on fore-edge of text block and light offsetting to endpapers; jacket is fine, crisp and bright. Author's second book.
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A Little Stone
by BOWLES, PAUL
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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€170.62
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London: John Lehmann, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First issue, bound in light green cloth. This copy has binding thread through the cloth on the front and rear board. Previous owner's signature and date to the front endpage. Dustjacket is a bit worn at the outer corners and at the head and heel of the spine panel. Modest dustsoil over all; two abrasions to the front panel.
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A Little Stone
by Bowles, Paul
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Cotuit, Massachusetts, United States
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€186.54
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John Lehmann. Very Good. 1950. Hardcover. Author's 2nd book. 1st edition, 1st issue in light green cloth. Cloth lightly soiled. Dj soiled, browned, chipped top & bottom spine.; 222 pages .
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A Little Stone.
by BOWLES, Paul
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- Used - Slightest sunning to edges of cloth, else a near fine copy in a bright, fresh, unchipped jacket. Extremely attractive.
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Rochester, New York, United States
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€233.17
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London:: John Lehmann,, [1950].. First edition.. publisher's cloth in dust jacket.. Slightest sunning to edges of cloth, else a near fine copy in a bright, fresh, unchipped jacket. Extremely attractive.. 8vo,.
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A Little Stone
by Bowles, Paul
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Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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€221.81
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London: John Lehman, 1950. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Printing of the First Edition. Fine but for toning to fore edges, and prev. owner insc. on rear free endpaper. Jacket has a little wear at extremities, esp. spine tips. No chips or tears. First state of the first edition..
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A LITTLE STONE
by Bowles, Paul
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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London: John Lehmann, 1950. First printing. Very good plus in near fine jacket.. First edition of Bowles's first short story collection, published without "The Delicate Prey" and "Pages from Cold Point" (both restored in the US edition) to save the fragile sensibilities of English printers and censors. "Practically all the tales are a variety of detective story," the author maintained in a letter to his American publisher. "Not the usual variety, I admit, but still, detective stories in which the reader is the detective, and the mystery is the motivation for the character's behavior." For Tennessee Williams, Bowles's short fiction was "the exploration of a cavern of individual sensibilities, and fortunately the cavern is a deep one containing a great deal that is worth exploring." 7.75'' x 5''. Original olive green cloth. In original unclipped (9s. 6d.) pictorial dust jacket by Keith Vaughan. 222 pages. Light bumping to boards; minor soil and remainder mark to lower edge of text block. Trace…
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