A Little Stone
London: John Lehmann, (1950).
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Hardcover. First edition, first issue binding. Fine in a slightly soiled else about fine, price-clipped dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author to the American poet and Newdigate Prize winner David Posner. Bowles's second book, a collection of stories.
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Paul Bowles
birth name: Paul Frederick Bowles
born: 12/30/1910
died: 11/18/1999
Biography
American-born composer, translator, and author of novels and short stories in which violent events and psychological collapse are recounted in a detached and elegant style. His protagonists are often Europeans or Americans who are maimed by their contact with powerful traditional cultures. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore