Bowles, Paul

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Kathmandu, Nepal: Starstreams / Sharada Printing Press, 1976. First Edition. Item #5167

One of 500 numbered copies, this being no.472. Small quarto (24.25cm); machine-sewn pictorial wrappers, printed in hand-made Nepalese paper and brown tissue leaves; cover illustration verifaxed by Maya; 17 unpaginated leaves; photographic frontispiece collage by Dana Young. While not called for, this copy is signed by Bowles on the title page. Trivial wear, lower edge cut slightly askew; Near Fine. An exquisitely rustic production of Bowles's poem, issued as part of the Starstreams Poetry Series under the direct aegis of Ira Cohen. Miller A31.

Price: $225.00