Collected Stories
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1979.
Price: $600.00
Hardcover. First edition. Introduction by Gore Vidal. Quarter batik cloth and decorated paper boards in unprinted acetate dustwrapper. Fine. One of only 60 special numbered copies handbound and Signed by both Bowles and Vidal.
Item #576869
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