BOWLES (PAUL) The Sheltering Sky, FIRST EDITION, second impression, PRESENTATION COPY TO LADY JU...

BOWLES (PAUL) The Sheltering Sky, FIRST EDITION, second impression, PRESENTATION COPY TO LADY JULIET DUFF, inscribed on front free endpaper 'For Lady Juliet/ with admiration/ Paul Bowles' and with her bookplate, some spotting to fore-edges (and one or two spots elsewhere), publisher's blue/grey cloth (slight fading at edges), pictorial dust-jacket (slight soiling to rear panel), 8vo, John Lehmann, 1949 Footnotes: Rare inscribed copy of the author's first novel, one of the seminal works of mid-twentieth-century American fiction, presented to the patron of the arts Lady Juliet Duff. After the manuscript was rejected by his American publisher, Doubleday, Bowles sent it on to John Lehmann in London and the first impression appeared in September 1949, followed the same month by the present impression. Encouraged by its immediate success, an American edition was published by New Directions in October the same year. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • • Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing