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A Little Stone: Stories [Signed] by Paul Bowles - 1950

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A Little Stone: Stories [Signed] by Paul Bowles - 1950

A Little Stone: Stories [Signed]

by Paul Bowles

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London: John Lehmann, 1950. Very Good +/Very Good +. London: John Lehmann, 1950. First Edition in first state binding. Signed by Paul Bowles and dated Tangier - 16 / VIII / 93 without inscription on half title. Octavo (20.5cm); 222pp. Keith Vaughan-illustrated dust jacket with 9s. 6d. net price intact. Light green cloth boards with dark green spine label and gilt lettering to spine. Final two leaves uncut along majority of fore-edge. Jacket lightly rubbed with minor creasing along edges and mild rubbing to spine and rear. Boards very lightly shelfworn and sunned along edges. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Overall a Very Good or better copy of Bowles' first collection of stories, published a year after The Sheltering Sky.
  • Bookseller Capitol Hill Books, ABAA US (US)
  • Book Condition Used - Very Good +
  • Jacket Condition Very Good +
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  • Publisher John Lehmann
  • Place of Publication London
  • Date Published 1950

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A Little Stone

by BOWLES PAUL

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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
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A Little Stone

by Bowles, Paul

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Used - Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket
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First Edition
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Northridge, California, United States
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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 .
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A Little Stone

by Bowles, Paul

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Used - Very Good+
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Very Good+
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First UK Edition
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New York, New York, United States
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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.
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A Little Stone

A Little Stone

by BOWLES, Paul

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Wadsworth, Illinois, United States
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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.
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A LITTLE STONE

by Bowles, Paul

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  • Hardcover
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Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Edition
First Edition
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Hardcover
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Westport, Connecticut, United States
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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 .
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A Little Stone

by Bowles, Paul

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Used - Near fine
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fine
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First Printing
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Hardcover
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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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.
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A Little Stone

by BOWLES, PAUL

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Used - Very Good +
Jacket Condition
Very Good
Edition
First Edition
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Hardcover
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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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.
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A Little Stone

by Bowles, Paul

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Used - Very Good
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Cotuit, Massachusetts, United States
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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 .
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A Little Stone.

by BOWLES, Paul

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Used - Slightest sunning to edges of cloth, else a near fine copy in a bright, fresh, unchipped jacket. Extremely attractive.
Edition
First edition.
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Hardcover
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Rochester, New York, United States
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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,.
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A Little Stone

by Bowles, Paul

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Condition
Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition
Very Good
Edition
First Printing of the First Edition
Binding
Hardcover
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Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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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..
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NZ$393.02