The Time of Friendship; a volume of short stories

New York/Chicago/San Francisco: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Near Fine in Very Good dj. (c.1967). First Edition. Hardcover. [minor shelfwear, tiny spot on top edge of text block; the jacket is age-toned (mostly along the spine), has a tiny chip at the upper right corner of the front panel, and a couple of small scrape marks on the front panel]. Thirteen stories by Bowles, jacket-blurbed as his first collection of his short fiction to appear since 1950's "A Delicate Prey" -- except it wasn't. (It was preceded by two others, "The Hours After Noon" (1959) and "A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard" (1962).) Contents: "The Time of Friendship"; "The Successor"; "The Hours After Noon"; "A Friend of the World"; "He of the Assembly"; "The Story of Lahcen and Idir"; "The Wind at Beni Midar"; "The Hyena"; "The Garden"; "Doña Faustina"; "Tapiama"; "If I Should Open my Mouth"; "The Frozen Fields." (All had been previously published in various magazines and journals.) .