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INSCRIBED BY BOWLES TO HIS PUBLISHERBOWLES, PAUL. The Spider's House. With a Preface by the Author. 8vo. Original decorated cloth-backed paper-covered boards; paper label on spine. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara 1982. First Edition. One of 4 copies for presentation marked "Presentation Edition 4/4," signed by the publisher John Martin on the colophon page. This copy is a presentation copy from Bowles to Martin. "For John Martin, Greetings from the Third and Fourth Worlds. 'But what was the past of her to which she mattered?' Best, Paul Bowles Tangier, 9/111/82." Fine.