Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1979. First Trade Edition. First Printing, cloth issue, one of 500 copies. Octavo (23.5cm); pictorial paper-covered boards and dark red cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [6],7-145,[3]pp. Lower board corners gently tapped (though still sharp), else Near Fine in..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1979. First Edition. Deluxe Issue, one of 26 lettered copies specially bound and signed by all contributors (except for Boulaich and Yacoubi, who did not sign), this being copy 'O'. Octavo (23.5cm); pictorial paper-covered boards and patterned cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine;..... More
London: Peter Owen Limited, 1973. First Edition. Choukri's autobiography chronicling his life growing up in abject poverty in Morocco up until the age of 20, when he decided to become literate. Translated from classical Arabic by Bowles. Miller A23. First Impression, one of 2,000 copies. Octavo (22cm); black cloth, with..... More
New York: Ecco Press, 1974. First Edition. Choukri's account of a series of meetings between famed French writer Jean Genet and himself in Tangier, Morocco; translated by noted author Paul Bowles. In the foreword, Burroughs says of Choukri's writing that he "saw and heard Jean Genet as clearly as if..... More
Santa Barbara: Cadmus Editions, 1979. First Edition. First Printing, trade issue, one of 1,307 copies. Small octavo (17.5cm); pictorial wrappers; publisher's original glassine overlay; [14],15-85,[11]pp, with illustrated frontispiece portrait of Williams by J. Byrd Patterson. Fine in a Near Fine glassine, with a small spot to front panel, trivial wear..... More