Three Tales
Frank Hallman (1975). Three short works by Bowles. Miller A28. very good in wrappers. More
Frank Hallman (1975). Three short works by Bowles. Miller A28. very good in wrappers. More
[New York]: Éditions de la Vipère [1935?]. A collection of four short musical compositions by Bowles with lyrics by Richard Thoma, first performed in 1944. Bowles had traveled extensively in France and North Africa in the 1930s and was introduced to Thoma through the collaborationist Bernard Faÿ in 1931. (See, Sawyer- Laucanno. The Invisible Spectator a 98.) Éditions de la Vipère was Bowles's musical imprint and he published this and several of his own works in small editions of 100 copies. (See, Miller, In Touch- The Letters of Paul Bowles @575.) Laid in is an undated 1p. ALS from Jean Cocteau to Thoma ("I have a lot of trouble living. the biggest odds don't even pull me to the surface".) In 1930, Thoma joined Samuel Putnam's New Review as an associate editor and was involved in much of the New Review 's warfare against Edward Titus's conservative This Quarter. Thoma dedicated one of the poems in his rare collection Green Chaos to Cocteau and he was well known among the expatriates in Paris in the 1920s. Good in faded wrappers with wear and water stains to cover, tape repair to spine. Rare. Miller E6. More
Black Sparrow (1975). Two short works translated by Bowles, this pamphlet was issued prior to the publication of Mrabet's Harmless Poisons, Blameless Lies. Very good, a bit yellowed at edges. More
Eos (1995). Hardcover. More
Tombouctou (1986). Hardcover. Two stories translated by Paul Bowles. One hundred casebound copies signed by the author and translator. Very good. office. More