Search Results: A Little Stone by Paul Bowles

John Lehmann, London, 1950. Hardcover Firts edition no dj 222 pages scuffs and light soiling with tear to boards and name to fep but still in good tight clean reading order. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour despatch

London: John Lehmann. Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's gilt-titled green cloth. Cloth edges mildly insected, block edge foxed. Small dampstain to cloth at heel, gilt a bit dulled. Firm binding. The DJ in mylar is slightly toned/soiled/foxed, damped to heel. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

London: John Lehmann, 1950. First UK Edition. 1950. Very Good+/Very Good+. A very nice copy in attractive pictorial DJ, with a light crease running down the front panel.

London: John Lehmann. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Dampstaining slightly to front board and significantly to rear board. Small open tear to rear of price clipped DJ. Browning to half-title page; Short story collection with an initial print run of only 3500 copies. Colorful Keith Vaughan jacket design; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 222 pages .

London: John Lehmann, 1950. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 222 pages. Bowle's second book of fiction, a collection of 12 short stories. A tight near fine copy in light green cloth boards with a former owner signature to the front free endpaper and in a very good price clipped dust jacket with some chips and tears to the spine ends and some faint spots to the rear panel. Still a pleasing copy of this early book from the author of the classic novel "The Sheltering Sky.

London: John Lehmann, 1950. First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine/fine. Small 8vo, green cloth in dust jacket and in black cloth slipcase. Book near fine with just a touch of tiny fox marks sprinkled on fore-edge of text block and light offsetting to endpapers; jacket is fine, crisp and bright. Author's second book.

London: John Lehmann, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First issue, bound in light green cloth. This copy has binding thread through the cloth on the front and rear board. Previous owner's signature and date to the front endpage. Dustjacket is a bit worn at the outer corners and at the head and heel of the spine panel. Modest dustsoil over all; two abrasions to the front panel.

John Lehmann. Very Good. 1950. Hardcover. Author's 2nd book. 1st edition, 1st issue in light green cloth. Cloth lightly soiled. Dj soiled, browned, chipped top & bottom spine.; 222 pages .

London:: John Lehmann,, [1950].. First edition.. publisher's cloth in dust jacket.. Slightest sunning to edges of cloth, else a near fine copy in a bright, fresh, unchipped jacket. Extremely attractive.. 8vo,.

London: John Lehman, 1950. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Printing of the First Edition. Fine but for toning to fore edges, and prev. owner insc. on rear free endpaper. Jacket has a little wear at extremities, esp. spine tips. No chips or tears. First state of the first edition..

London: John Lehmann, 1950. First printing. Very good plus in near fine jacket.. First edition of Bowles's first short story collection, published without "The Delicate Prey" and "Pages from Cold Point" (both restored in the US edition) to save the fragile sensibilities of English printers and censors. "Practically all the tales are a variety of detective story," the author maintained in a letter to his American publisher. "Not the usual variety, I admit, but still, detective stories in which the reader is the detective, and the mystery is the motivation for the character's behavior." For Tennessee Williams, Bowles's short fiction was "the exploration of a cavern of individual sensibilities, and fortunately the cavern is a deep one containing a great deal that is worth exploring." 7.75'' x 5''. Original olive green cloth. In original unclipped (9s. 6d.) pictorial dust jacket by Keith Vaughan. 222 pages. Light bumping to boards; minor soil and remainder mark to lower edge of text block. Trace… Read More

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, containing a dozen stories. MILLER A3.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A splendid copy in bright dust jacket. Signed by Paul Bowles.

London: John Lehmann. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1950. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First edition. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. (Uniformly faint trace of off-setting to end-papers. Trivial spot on fore-edge. Couple closed tears on rear panel of jacket. ) Pleasing copy of the author's second book and first collection of stories. 3500 copies printed. ; 5 1/2" X 8"; 222 pages .

London: John Lehmann, 1950. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first issue binding. Fine in a fresh, near fine dustwrapper with three tears on the front panel. A very attractive copy of this collection of stories.

London: John Lehman, 1950. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8" by 5.5". None. The first edition of this collection of short stories from Paul Bowles. Including 'The Echo', 'The Scorpion', 'The Circular Valley' and more. Paul Frederic Bowles (December 30, 1910 – November 18, 1999) was an American expatriate composer, author, and translator. In a green cloth binding with original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, smart, with just some slight fading to the head and tail of the spine. Dustwrapper is sound, though with some slight loss to the head of the spine, and some instances of foxing. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright, with just a few instances of foxing. Very Good

London: John Lehman, 1950. First edition, first issue binding. A little bit of the usual age-toning to the pages, still easily fine in fine dustwrapper with a tiny tear on the front panel. A beautiful copy of this collection of stories.

London: John Lehman, 1950. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Very Good. 8" by 5.5". None. The first edition of this collection of short stories from Paul Bowles. Including 'The Echo', 'The Scorpion', 'The Circular Valley' and more. Paul Frederic Bowles (December 30, 1910 - November 18, 1999) was an American expatriate composer, author, and translator. In a green cloth binding with original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, smart. Some light bumping to the boards. Dustwrapper is sound, though with some slight wear to the extremities, and a few handling marks. Tape repairs to the rear. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with just some foxing to the endpaper. Very Good Indeed

London: John Lehmann, 1950. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first issue binding. Small bookstore label front pastedown, else fine in a near fine dustwrapper with slight tanning at the spine. A nice copy of this collection of stories.

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.