![Under the Sky" [in] HORIZON: A Review of Literature and Art Vol. XV, No. 89](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/010/545/1581545010.0.m.jpg)
Under the Sky" [in] HORIZON: A Review of Literature and Art Vol. XV, No. 89
by BOWLES, Paul; Cyril Connolly (ed)
London: Horizon, 1947. First Edition. Light tan printed wraps; 8vo. June1947 issue with "The Warm Country" by Windham, "Under the Sky" by Bowles and a poem by Kenneth Rexroth. Two leaves of black and white plates. Easily very good copy.
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Points In Time
by BOWLES, Paul
London: Peter Owen, 1982. First UK Edition. First Impression. Octavo; brown paper over boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 92pp. Fine in a Near Fine, unclipped dustjacket, with a touch of sunning to spine.
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A Thousand Days For Mokhtar and Other Stories
by BOWLES, Paul
London: Peter Owen, 1989. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo; yellow paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; 176pp. Faint foxing to top edge, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped, gently sunned at spine, with dust-soil to flaps; Near Fine. Collects 14 stories written between 1944 and 1985.
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The Time Of Friendship: A Volume of Short Stories
by BOWLES, Paul
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; white cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in red on spine and front panel; blue topstain; dustjacket; 215pp, [2]. Hint of sunning to upper board edges, with a few tiny spots of discoloration to topstain; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped and gently sunned at spine, else very... Read More
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A Little Stone: Stories
by BOWLES, Paul
London: John Lehmann Ltd, 1950. First Edition. First Impression, one of 3,500 copies. Octavo (20cm); sage green cloth, blocked and titled in dark green and gilt on spine; dustjacket; [10],11-222,[2]pp. Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced 9s.6d. net), with some trivial wear to extremities and a few tiny tears. The author's first collection of short fiction,... Read More
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Concerto for Two Pianos, Winds, and Percussion
by BOWLES, Paul
Santa Fe: Soundings Press, 1989. First Thus. Quarto (27.5cm.); original green decorative card wrappers; 184pp.; chiefly sheet music. Light wear, else Near Fine. Facsimile edition of a concerto composed in the 1940s and released as a 33 rpm album in 1950. Preface to this edition by Peter Garland.
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![Two Years Beside the Strait: Tangier Journal, 1987-1989 [LIMITED SIGNED EDITION]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/397/048/775048397.0.m.jpg)
Two Years Beside the Strait: Tangier Journal, 1987-1989 [LIMITED SIGNED EDITION]
by BOWLES, Paul
London: Peter Owen, [1990]. First U.K. Edition. Limited to 500 copies of which this is no. 30 of 75 signed copies. Slim octavo (20.5cm.); original simulated cloth in black pictorial dust jacket; 80pp.; illus. Very light rubbing to jacket extremities, else Fine.
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Collected Stories
by BOWLES, Paul
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1979. First Paperback Trade Edition. Octavo. 22.5cm. Publisher's beige card wraps titled to spine and front cover. 417pp.; [1]; [1]. A touch toned to the spine panel, with some minor thumbing and soiling to the pale wraps, strong and tight; internally clean, red endpapers, some thumbing to page edges. A very good copy with... Read More
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Let It Come Down
by BOWLES, Paul
London: John Lehmann Ltd, 1953. First UK Edition. First Impression. Octavo; blue-gray cloth, with titles stamped in maroon on spine; dustjacket; 318pp. Fading to board edges, with some very subtle offset from jacket illustration onto spine cloth; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped, lightly sunned at spine, with some minor edgewear and scattered soil to rear panel; Very Good+ to... Read More
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A Little Stone
by BOWLES, Paul
London: John Lehmann Ltd, 1950. First UK Edition. First Impression. Octavo; first issue binding in light green cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 222pp. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket. A superb copy of the author's second book, a collection of short fiction.
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Told in the Verandah: Passages in the Life of Colonel Bowlong, Set Down by His Adjutant
by [BOWLONG, Col.]
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Company, 1895. First American Edition. Octavo (20cm). Green cloth stamped in black and silver; dark blue coated endpapers; [viii],271,[1]pp. Spound but rubbed with minor wear to corners; three-inch crack to rear hinge (internal); generally clean but with one or two spots of fingersoil, overall Very Good. Mystery stories set in British India, originally published... Read More
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Experiment / эксперимент: A Journal of Russian Culture (nos. 1-10, 1995-2004)
by BOWLT, John E. (et al, eds)
Los Angeles: Institute of Modern Russian Culture / Charles Schlacks, Jr., 1995-2004. Ten octavo volumes (issued annually). Original printed card wrappers; variously paginated. Mild evidence of use; generally Near Fine or better. From the library of noted poet and translator Nathaniel Tarn, with his embossed stamp to title page of first issue. Texts primarily in English save v.5, which... Read More
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Clever Jack and Other Tales
by BOWMAN, Anne
New York: James Miller, 1866. Edition and printing unstated; likely the second U.S. printing.12mo (18cm). Publisher's embossed cloth gilt; engraved extra-title and frontispiece; 300 pp, [8 pp ads]. Bright copy, with just mild rubbing to cloth at spine head and heel; foxing within, mostly on prelims; Very Good. OCLC notes an 1865 printing by the same publisher. ... Read More
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WORKS AND DAYS Vol. 1, No. 1
by Bowman, Glenn et al. (editors); John Cage, Robert Creeley et al.
Buffalo: State University of New York at Buffalo, Spring 1979. First Edition. Side-stapled illustrated wrappers; square 8vo. 95 pp. Reprints portions of a symposium with Robert Creely, JohnCage, Merce Cunningham, Morton Feldman and others participating; poetry by Leslie Fiedler, Susan Barnes, Gail Fischer and others. Intended as a tri-quarterly for interdisciplinary work, this may well be the only issue:... Read More
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Facts About the American Wars
by BOWMAN, John S. (ed.)
New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1998. Octavo (26cm). Blue cloth stamped in gilt; [xviii],750pp; black and white illustrations. A sound, clean copy, Near Fine. Jacket lightly rubbed spine-sunned, with faint evidence of label at base of spine; Very Good. #61912.
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Introducing the Bible
by BOWMAN, John Wick
Philadelphia: Westminster Press, [1941]. First Edition. Small octavo (18.5cm.); publisher's blue pictorial staplebound card wrappers; 94pp. A hint of toning to wrapper extremities, else Fine.
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Fort Jesus and the Portuguese in Mombasa, 1593-1729
by BOXER, C.R. and Carlos de Azevedo
London: Hollis and Carter, (1960). First Edition. First printing. Inscribed on front endpaper: "To Dick [Dornan?] with best wishes from Carlos de Azevedo," dated 1962. Octavo. Red cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 144pp. Tight, clean and unmarked, Very Good or better, in the original pictorial dustwrapper, mildly toned on lighter portions, still VG.
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The Wild Party
by [BOXING FICTION] [NOVELS-IN-VERSE] MARCH, Joseph Moncure
N.p. [New York]: Privately Printed, [1929]. Octavo. Cloth-backed gold-foil boards; bright fuchsia endpapers; 80p. Subscriber's Edition, limited to 200 hand-numbered copies (this is no. 47). Probably a pirated edition, published after the 1928 Covici printing; the Reginald Marsh illustrations not present in this edition. The single text decoration is of a quality that puts us firmly in mind of... Read More
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De Wonderlÿke Avonturen van Philomene / The Marvelous Adventures of Philomene / Les Aventures Merveilleuses de Philomène / Die Wunderlichen Abenteuer der Philomene
by BOXSEL, Pim van
[Hilversum, Holland: Steendrukkerij de Jong & Co, 1966]. First Edition. Slim square quarto (25cm.); publisher's black pictorial card wrappers, French flaps; [79]pp.; chiefly illus. Extremities rubbed, else Very Good, internally sound. Wordless novel describing the marvelous adventures of Philomene, who happens to lose her clothes very early on in the story. The work was apparently published as a promotional... Read More
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The Coat and the Crown: Joseph of Egypt
by BOYACK, Mary Keith
Orem, UT: Sunrise Publishing, 2010. First Edition. Large octavo. Pictorial wrappers (softcover, as issued); 410pp; illus. Tight, fine copy, free of markings or wear. Inscribed by author on half-title to an unnamed recipient; additionally signed by her on title page. Historical novel based on the life of Joseph of Egypt.
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Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison
by BOYD, Belle
[Martinsburg]: Jefferson County Historical Society, [1992]. Reprint. Octavo. Green cloth hardcover; [8],284pp; ilus. Three photographic illustrations before text. Fine, apprently unread copy. Photo facsimile from the original text (published 1865). Special edition issued by the Jefferson County Historical Society to commemorate the purchase of the Belle Boyd House in Martinsburg, WV in 1992.
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Popular Arts of Spanish New Mexico
by BOYD, E.
Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1974. First Edition. First printing. Quarto. Tan cloth hardcover; dustjacket; viii,[1]-518pp; maps; illus. A fine copy, tight and unmarked. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped and equally fine. A new-appearing copy. An authoritative and extremely well-illustrated monograph. Ms. Boyd was Curator Emeritus of the Museum of New Mexico; her first book,... Read More
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Long Hunt
by BOYD, James
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. First Edition. First Printing, trade issue. Octavo (19cm); hunter green cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 376pp. Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket, price-clipped, with some gentle sunning to spine, and light wear to spine ends and extremities. A novel of western expansion, to the Mississippi and... Read More
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The Battle of Tabkin Kwatto
by BOYD, Jean
Zaria: Printed by Gaskiya Corporation and Published by the Northern Nigerian Publishing Company, [n.d. but 1967]. First Edition. Slim octavo (21.5cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; [12]pp; illus. Light wear along spine fold, with mild dustiness to wrappers; Near Fine. Brief account, written for juvenile audiences, of a small part of the Fulani Campaign (1804-1808), which took place in modern-day Nigeria... Read More
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Health Problems in the Developing Caribbean
by BOYD, Philip Irving
Bridgetown, Barbados: Caribbean Ecumenical Consultation for Development, [1971]. First Edition. Slim octavo (21.85cm); printed wrappers, stapled; 11pp. Light wear to extremities, else Near Fine. Issued as "Study Paper No.7," dealing chiefly with health issues in developing Caribbean nations in two main areas: health problems which actually cause sickness and death, and "those which are related to the services that... Read More
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