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The sheltering sky
- Title
- The sheltering sky / Paul Bowles.
- Author
- Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999
- Publication
- New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1968.
- ©1948
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- Description
- 318 pages; 21 cm.
- Summary
- The story centers on Port Moresby and his wife Kit, a married couple originally from New York who travel to the North African desert accompanied by their friend Tunner. The journey, initially an attempt by Port and Kit to resolve their marital difficulties, is quickly fraught by the travelers' ignorance of the dangers that surround them.
- Series Statement
- New Directions paperbook ; NDP158
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Psychological fiction.
- Fiction.
- Note
- "A New Directions book" -- title page.
- "New Directions Books are published for James Laughlin by New Directions Publishing Corporation" -- title page verso.
- "Copyright 1948 by Paul Bowles ... First published by New Directions in 1949. First published as New Directions Paperbook 260 in 1968" -- title page verso.
- According to Miller this first American paperbound edition printed from separate sheets includes the erroneous note on the title page "First published as New Editions Paperbook 260 in 1968"; a planned reissue under that new number did not occur, but the information on the proofs was not corrected.
- Indexed In (note)
- Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin
- Miller, J. Paul Bowles: a descriptive bibliograpy
- Binding (note)
- is in publisher's original paperback binding; cover designed by David Ford, with a photograph by Roloff Beny.
- Contents
- Tea in the Sahara -- The Earth's sharp edge -- The sky.
- Call Number
- Berg Coll 22-607
- LCCN
- 49011888
- OCLC
- 6723699
- Author
- Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999, author.
- Title
- The sheltering sky / Paul Bowles.
- Publisher
- New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1968.
- Copyright Date
- ©1948
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- New Directions paperbook ; NDP158
- Indexed In:
- Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin, page 68Miller, J. Paul Bowles: a descriptive bibliograpy, f, pages 20-21
- Binding
- Copy in Berg Coll 22-607 is in publisher's original paperback binding; cover designed by David Ford, with a photograph by Roloff Beny.
- Local Note
- Copy in Berg Coll 22-607 acquired from Leila and Daniel Javitch, 2021.Copy in Berg Coll 22-607 includes two-page listing of New Directions Paperbooks (not including this title) at back.
- Added Author
- Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, publisher.Ford, David, 1934- cover designer.Beny, Roloff, photographer.New Directions Publishing, publisher.Javitch, Leila Laughlin, donor.Javitch, Daniel, donor.Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, former owner.James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.
- Research Call Number
- Berg Coll 22-607