Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$27.36 + shipping
Description: Octavo, illus light card cover, black & red lettering to spine, 145pp, VG- (moderate chafing/creasing & soiling to covers, light foxing & soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to prelims)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Softcover; 8vo; pp 145. First ed thus. Bowles' translation of five Moroccan oral storytellers in nice shape. Paper wraps with red and blue titles, black illustration on front. Spine lightly sunned, and very light wear to edges. Interior bright and clean. A page or two with light creasing from when the paper was made. VG+ [JB]
Seller: Book Bazaar, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, wrappered issue. Fine.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A nice hardcover with a tight binding and an unmarked text. From a private smoke free collection. Shipping within 24 hours, tracking number and delivery Confirmation.
Seller: Stock & Trade LLC, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Cloth and papercovered boards. Foxing on page edges, light toning and faint foxing on cover, very good in very good unprinted acetate dust jacket with modest spotting, and rubbing. One of 500 copies. The stories were told aloud, recorded, and translated.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Cloth and papercovered boards. Fine in fine unprinted acetate dust jacket. One of 500 copies. The stories were told aloud, recorded, and translated.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$97.45 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Acceptable
Seller: dsmbooks, liverpool, United Kingdom
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 145, [2] pp. Bound in publisher's illustrated boards with red cloth backstrip, paper title label. Fine in original acetate wrapper, slightly cloudy. A collection of stories by five Moroccan authors, all except Choukri's being spoken texts only. American novelist and composer Paul Bowles transcribed them, his writing talents coming in handy to create a very different sort of short story than American readers are typically used to: very unpretentious and oddly entrancing. Mrabet, Choukri, and Layachi (initially writing as Driss Ben Hamed Charhadi) all wrote a number of books, most translated by Bowles.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$112.20 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo. Quarter blue cloth over cream decorated paper boards. Wrapped in publisher's clear acetate. Limited of 500 copies of which 200 are numbered and signed. This is number 63. This copy is signed by Bowles and by three of the five Moroccan authors. fine copy.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Light foxing to the top page edges. From a numbered edition of 200 copies, this being #75. Singed by Bowles and three of the authors.
Seller: Canary Books and Records, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
Bowles, Paul (Editor & translation). Five Eyes. Black Sparrow Press 1979, 1979.
Price: US$146.79 + shipping
Description: Softcover. Very good. Front cover has a few light stains. Book is intact. No notes/underlining. Very rare. 145 pp Stories by Boulaich, Abdeslam & Choukri, Mohamed & Layachi, Larbi. Mrabet & Mohammed & Yacoubi, Ahmed.
Seller: Libereso, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1979. First Edition, Limited Issue of 200 copies signed by Choukri, Layachi, Mrabet, and Bowles on publisher's tipped in sheet. Octavo. 145 pp. Unprinted acetate dust jacket. Bound in paper-covered boards with blue cloth backstrip and paper title label to spine; charcoal endpapers. Rubbing and smudging to dust jacket. Boards shelfworn and rubbing with very minor fraying along spine. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Overall Very Good or better. [Miller A36.c].
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Paul Bowles , Boulaich, Abdeslam; etc.. Five Eyes. U.S.A.: Black Sparrow Press,U.S., 1979.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine in a Fine jacket. 1st Edition. Signed by Bowles and three of the five authors. Number 151 of 200 signed copies.
Seller: Jackson Street Booksellers, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: 145 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Bowles, Layachi, and two additional contributors.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo. A collection of short fiction by five African writers edited and translated by Paul Bowles. One of 200 copies. SIGNED by Bowles and three of the contributors. Light foxing to top edge else a fine copy in acetate wrapper.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Tan illustrated wrappers show light wear to top and bottom edges, corners straight, light foxing to top bottom and fore-edge of book body, blue cloth covered spine with on-laid titles, signed by editor Paul Bowles and three of the authors, limited edition 49/200. Signed Limited Edition.
Seller: Counterpoint Records & Books, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Cloth and papercovered boards in original unprinted acetate dustwrapper as issued. Fine. Copy number 13 of 200 numbered hardbound copies Signed by Bowles and three of the five Moroccan storytellers represented here. The stories were told aloud, recorded, and translated. The two storytellers who did not sign any copies of this edition were unable to as they were illiterate.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Blue cloth backed beige boards in original unprinted acetate dust wrapper as issued, 8vo. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, (1979). First Edition. Fine. Copy number 106 of 200 numbered copies Signed by Bowles and three of the five Moroccan storytellers represented here. The stories were told aloud, recorded, and translated.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: SIGNED Limited Edition. Copy #166 of 200 numbered copies signed by Paul Bowles & 3 of the Moroccan writers. An invoice provided by the publisher notes that 2 Moroccan writers did not sign the colophon as they were illiterate. Very close to fine in quarter cloth & boards, in a clear acetate wrapper as issued. (A few specks of foxing at top edge) An uncommon limitation. (B); 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 145 pages; Signed by Author 0-87685-410-2
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: 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; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [6],7-145,[3]pp. Fine in a lightly rubbed, Near Fine dustjacket. Collection of stories and folk tales told by five native Moroccans, recorded by notebook or on tape and translated by Bowles, who provides "Notes on the Work of the Translator" by way of a foreword. Uncommon in the deluxe issue. Miller A36c.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, lettered issue. Quarter cloth and papercovered boards in original unprinted acetate dustwrapper as issued. Fine. Copy letter H of 26 lettered copies Signed by Bowles and three of the five Moroccan storytellers represented here as issued. The stories were told aloud, recorded, and translated. The two storytellers who did not sign any copies of this edition were unable to as they were illiterate.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
BOWLES, Paul, editor and translator. Five eyes: Stories. Black Sparrow Press, 1979.
Price: US$429.48 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Like New
Seller: dsmbooks, liverpool, United Kingdom