The Spider's House by Paul Bowles, First Edition (109 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. A Near Fine copy of the First Edition with a touch of shelfwear; dust jacket missing. 938pp. // 'Paul Bowles had already established himself as an important American composer when, at the age of thirty-eight, he published The Sheltering Sky and became widely recognized as one of the most powerful writers of the postwar period. By the time of his death in 1999 he had become a unique and legendary figure in modern literary culture. From his base in Tangier he produced novels, stories, and travel writings in which exquisite surfaces and violent undercurrents mingle. This Library of America volume, containing his first three novels, with its companion Collected Stories and Later Writings, is the first annotated edition of Bowles's work, offering the full range of his literary achievement: the portrait of an outsider who was one of the essential American writers of the last half century. The Sheltering Sky (1949), which remains Bowles's most celebrated work, describes the unraveling of a young, sophisticated, and adventuresome married couple as they make their way into the Sahara. In a prose style of meticulous calm and stunning visual precision, Bowles tracks Port and Kit Moresby on a journey through the desert that culminates in death and madness. In Let It Come Down (1952), Bowles plots the doomed trajectory of Nelson Dyar, a New York bank teller who comes to Tangier in search of a different life and ends up giving in to his darkest impulses. Rich in descriptions of the corruption and decadence of the International Zone in the last days before Moroccan independence, Bowles's second novel is an alternately comic and horrific account of a descent into nihilism. The Spider's House (1955), the longest and most complex of Bowles's novels, is set against the end of French rule in Morocco. Its characters--ranging from a Moroccan boy gifted with spiritual healing power to an American writer who regrets the passing of traditional ways--are caught up in the clash between colonial and nationalist factions, and are forced to confront cultural gulfs widened by political violence. Bowles--who once told an interviewer, 'I've always wanted to get as far as possible from the place where I was born'--charts the collisions between 'civilized' exiles and unfamiliar societies that they can never really grasp. In fiction of slowly gathering menace, he achieves effects of horror and dislocation with an elegantly spare style and understated wit.' -- publisher.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Library of America #134, 2002; stated First Printing, no additional printings indicated. VG- hardcover in VG slipcase. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; boards and text also very good; previous owner name label on front paste-down (name is crossed out with ballpoint pen). Very minor wear to edges of slipcase. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Printing, stated. Hardbound Book. Issued without a dust jacket, in beige slipcase. Book is in Very Good condition, with minimal handling to cloth covered boards, binding is tight, corners are sharp, interior is clean, text is free of markings. Slipcase is in Very Good condition, with light overall handling and shelfwear. Includes publisher's supplement.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. First Thus. First Edition Thus, First Printing. Published by The Library of America, 2002. Octavo in slipcase. Book is like new. Clean and crisp with no writing or ownership markings. Binding tight and pages crisp. Sharp corners and spine straight. Publisher insert included. No dust jacket in slipcase as issued. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Condition: Very Fine. First Edition. A very fine copy in slipcase. Stated First Printing The Library of America-134. A very nice copy in like new and unread condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Library of America # 134. Stated first printing. Fine in a near fine slipcase. No dust jacket, as issued. Sewn-in ribbon bookmark.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Preface by the author, 1988 printing. Light edge wear, small creases to the lower corners, small stain adjacent to the spine on the lower front cover and another on the lower fore edge, Text clean, binding crisp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Tape mark to front end paper. No jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition hardcover, bound in black cloth with Bowles' initials (P B) in gilt on front cover with blue and green backgrounds, and faded gilt lettering on spine, is in G condition, having a slight slant to volume; slightly bumped corners; some age-toning and small stains to closed page edges; former owner's name and date (November 1955) written in ink on first free endpaper; overall, moderate surface, edge, and handling wear to volume. Fiction. Novel. DB.

Hard Cover. Condition: VG+. No Jacket. First Edition. Bound in black cloth, stamped in turquoise, lime green and gold. A bit of sunning to top edge and a bit of yellowing to front endpapers, sans dustwrapper. Overall, though, a tight, clean copy of the first edition of this, Bowles' fourth book - a novel about Morocco.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Jacket. 1st Ed. Previous owner's name on FEP.

1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (VG), no dustwrapper. Pp. 406 (endpapers lightly toned; no inscriptions).

Clothbound. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Printing.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First BSP Edition. With a new preface by the author not in the rare 1955 first edition. A clean, unmarked, tight copy free of creases or fading.

Condition: Fair. First edition copy. . No Dust Jacket (Morocco, culture conflict, social marginality, psychological fiction).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition, Stated; First Printing. Some light edge, corner and surface wear with the ghost of a glass or bottle ring on the front. Slight aging but square and securely bound. Sentence on Morocco on the ffep. This is one of Bowles early novels. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 406 pages; sold Amazon 1.4.24.

Hardcover First Printing. First Edition. 1000 copies. Fine in rubbed acetate jacket.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition Thus. Originally published in 1955. First Edition Thus, First Printing, a Fine copy in orange-y brown wrappers (there was also a hardcover issue). 406pp. with a new Preface by Bowles. Q10805.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First printing. Covers worn, with some soiled pages. Dust jacketworn and chipped.

First edition, ex-library. Octavo hardcover (VG), lacking d/w; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. First edition. Very good+ copy lacking dust jacket. (Previous owner's names inked at head of front end-paper. Mild crack at rear hinge. ) ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 406 pages.

Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condition: Muy bien. Dust Jacket Condition: Muy bien. 1ª Edición. (Literatura norteamericana. Novela. Marruecos). Barcelona, Luis de Caralt, 1958. Col. Gigante. Traducción de Carlos Paytuví. 374 p. 1 h. 8º. Tela editorial con sobrecubierta ilustrada. Ésta con un par de minúsculas pérdidas en la base. Muy buen ejemplar. Primera edición en castellano. First spanis edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Price-clipped DJ has light rubbing and edgewear with scuffs on front. ; 8 X 6 X 2 inches; 406 pages.

First edition, first printing. 12mo. 406 pp. Cloth binding in unclipped dsutwrapper, minor edgewear, owner signature, else good condition. (82796).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Very Good hardcover w/out dj (slight shelf wear; page 398/399 folded over at top right corner). First Edition, First Printing. "First Printing" stated to copyright page. Author's fourth book. 406pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Fine hardcover in a Fine dj. First Edition thus - first edition, first printing of this reprint edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. Near Fine hardcover w/out dj (slight foxing to front free endpaper). First Edition, First Printing. "First Printing" stated to copyright page. Author's fourth book.406pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First edition. First edition, stated first printing. Hardcover. 406 pp. A tight, generally fine copy in somewhat edgeworn dust jacket. The author's fourth book and third novel (following "The Sheltering Sky" and "Let It Come Down"). A Muslim boy, Amar, the son of a Moslem holy man, runs away for his home, finds himself in an orchard owned by Moulay Ali, and beings his personal entanglement in the violence about to erupt all over Morocco.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. First Printing. A Very Fine copy in tan cloth, in a Very Fine glossy black dustwrapper, not price-clipped. 938pp. with Chronology, and Notes by the Editor Daniel Halpern. Q20409.