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New York: Random House, 1952. First printing. Very good plus in very good jacket.. Inscribed first US edition of Bowles's second novel, the story of a doomed American who comes to Tangier to fall apart. In LET IT COME DOWN, Nelson Dyar comes across the oceans from New York to know fear in Tangier, where neither drugs nor hot weather nor the many varieties of criminal depravity can save him from meeting the blank horror of his own existence and getting rained on. Inscribed by Bowles in Cleveland in the year after publication; a 1953 letter from Bowles records a recent visit to that city with Moroccan artist Ahmed Yacoubi. 8'' x 5.25''. Original half grey cloth with textured black paper cover, stamped in yellow, with mounted black and white illustration. Yellow topstain, yellow endpapers. In original unclipped ($3.50) pictorial dust jacket designed by E. McKnight Kauffer. 311, [1] pages. Inscribed by Bowles on front free endpaper: "for Frank O'Neill / after a long and / very…

"Let It Come Down" is a novel by Paul Bowles, published in 1952, that explores themes of existentialism, cultural collision, and self-destruction in Tangier, Morocco.