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New York: New Directions, 1949. First American Edition. Near Fine/Very Good+. First American edition. Neatly signed by Paul Bowles on half title. 318 pp. Publisher's tan cloth with blue and black stamping on spine. Near Fine with a little staining to edges, offsetting to endpapers, in a slightly toned, unclipped dust jacket with two small tears in spine panel, small tear to back panel bottom corner, easily Very Good+. The American expatriate's first and best-known novel, a classic of existentialist literature about an American couple adrift in North Africa. Uncommon signed.