Let It Come Down
New York: Random House, 1952.
Price: $1,000.00
Hardcover. First edition. Corners a little bumped else very good or better in very good dustwrapper with an internal tape repair and shallow chipping at the crown. Inscribed by Bowles to a Daniel Warden, using anagrams of both his and of the recipient's name: "for Aladdin Erwin - Companion in talking, Companion in Walking. Abel Wolpus. Tangier. 15/viii/85." The author's second novel with an amusing inscription.
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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