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Bowles, Paul. Let It Come Down. Black Sparrow Pr, 1980.

Price: US$6.95 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Includes a Preface by the author. Good paperback. A small stain on bottom edge at spine on pages 165-175, otherwise unmarked, bright and clean with uncreased spine. Corners want to turn out. Enjoy reading with a real book in your hands. Shipping from North Carolina. Dedicated to delighting our customers. Delivery confirmation provided on all domestic orders. Happy to ship to international locations. Consider expedited shipping - just a little more moves your purchase a lot faster. Digital photos available on request for any book.

Seller: Cameron Park Books, Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.

BOWLES, Paul. Let It Come Down. With a Preface by the Author. Black Sparrow Press., Santa Barbara, 1980.

Price: US$18.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: (296pp. Covers lightly sunned, top edge foxed, else clean unused Size: Large octavo

Seller: C.P. Collins Booksellers, Leichhardt, NSW, Australia

Bowles, Paul Frederick. LET IT COME DOWN. WITH A PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR.. Black Sparrow Press, 1980.

Price: US$20.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 292 pp; Edge wear at the cornes and covers a touch toned, still a nice tight book

Seller: GLOVER'S BOOKERY, ABAA, Lexington, KY, U.S.A.

Paul Bowles. Let It Come Down. Black Sparrow, Santa Barbara, 1980.

Price: US$25.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First Thus. First trade printing. Book- very good with fading to perimeter of front cover and binding. Trade paperback.

Seller: Whiting Lane Books, West Hartford, CT, U.S.A.

Bowles, Paul. LET IT COME DOWN. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, CA, 1980.

Price: US$25.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1980, 292pp, blue cloth spine w/ blue paper over boards, foxing to top pg edges, clear plastic dj, some rubbing & soiling to dj, contents clean & unmarked.

Seller: Russ States, Oil City, PA, U.S.A.

BOWLES, Paul. Let It Come Down. Black Sparrow, Santa Barbara, 1980.

Price: US$25.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: New edition with a new preface by the author. Wrappered issue. A little age-toning at the extremities, else near fine.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

Bowles, Paul. Let It Come Down. Black Sparrow, Santa Barbara, 1980.

Price: US$25.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Slight soiling and edgewear thus very good, lacking acetate dustjacket. Re-issue of novel first pub. 1952. This is one of 1000 trade hardcovers.

Seller: Tony Power, Books, North Vancouver, BC, Canada

Paul Bowles. Let It Come Down. Black Sparrow, 1980.

Price: US$30.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First Printing

Seller: Brooklyn Rare Books, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.

BOWLES, Paul. Let It Come Down. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, 1980.

Price: US$35.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First edition with a new preface by the author, hardcover issue. Quarter cloth and decorated paper-covered boards. Fine copy in fine publisher's unprinted acetate dust jacket. One of 1000 copies of the hardcover trade issue.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

Paul Bowles. LET IT COME DOWN. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Rosa, 1980.

Price: US$53.84 + shipping

Description: Very Good+ in wraps. Lightly sunned spine.

Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.

Bowles, Paul. Let It Come Down. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, CA, 1980.

Price: US$85.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 292 pages, 8vo. Includes clear acetate DJ. Limited Edition of 1000 cloth trade copies. Minor shelfwear. Tightly bound, no marks. Volume is in Near Fine condition.

Seller: Russian Hill Bookstore, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.

Bowles, Paul. LET IT COME DOWN. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, CA, 1980.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Boards (HB) in near fine condition with faded strip to top of front cover and slight wear to edges. Original acetate jacket lightly rubbed. Limited numbered and signed edition of 350 copies. This is number 235. "In Let It Come Down, Paul Bowles plots the doomed trajectory of Nelson Dyar, a New York bank teller who comes to Tangier in search of a different life and ends up giving in to his darkest impulses. Rich in descriptions of the corruption and decadence of the International Zone in the last days before Moroccan independence, Bowles's second novel is an alternately comic and horrific account of a descent into nihilism. 292 pages.

Seller: David Gaines, Eureka, CA, U.S.A.

Paul Bowles. Let It Come Down [Limited Edition, Signed by Bowles]. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, CA, 1980.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1980. Second American Edition, Limited Issue of 350 copies signed by Bowles on publisher's tipped in leaf, this being #155. Octavo. 292 pp. Unprinted acetate dust jacket. Paper-covered boards with yellow backstrip and green endpapers. Light wear and creasing to extremities of dust jacket with some mild general scuffing. Boards edgeworn with mild bumping. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Overall Very Good or better. [Miller A6.g].

Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.

BOWLES, Paul.. Let it Come Down.. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow,, 1980.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Description: 292 pp. Foxing along top edge, else very near fine in light blue wrappers with pasted-on cover label. Stamped "Advance Copy" on the front free endpaper. One of ten copies. Miller A6e (note).

Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

BOWLES, Paul. Let It Come Down. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, 1980.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First edition with a new preface by the author, hardcover issue. Quarter cloth and decorated paper-covered boards. Fine copy in fine publisher's unprinted acetate dust jacket. One of 350 numbered copies signed by Paul Bowles.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

Bowles, Paul. LET IT COME DOWN – UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, 1980.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Description: One of 10 uncorrected proof copies, each rubber-stamped "Advance Copy" on front endpaper, with the publisher's slip mounted to front cover (numbered 1/10 in pencil at upper right corner of same). Octavo (23cm); publisher's light blue card wrappers; [6],7-292,[8]pp. Trivial wear and a few small spots of toning to extremities, some bleed-through from glue onto the publisher's slip, else contents clean; Near Fine. The first Black Sparrow Press edition of Bowles's second novel, with a new preface by the author. Miller A6e.

Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.

BOWLES, Paul. Let It Come Down. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, 1980.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First edition with a new preface by the author, hardcover issue. Quarter cloth and decorated paper-covered boards. Fine copy in fine publisher's unprinted acetate dust jacket. One of 350 numbered copies signed by Paul Bowles.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

Bowles, Paul. Let It Come Down (Signed). Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, 1980.

Price: US$135.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Hardbound octavo in clear acetate wrapper. 292 pp. First edition thus with a new preface by Bowles. One of 350 hand-numbered copies bound in boards and SIGNED by Bowles. A fine copy in acetate.

Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.

BOWLES, Paul.. Let it Come Down.. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow,, 1980.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Description: 292 pp. Foxing along top edge, else near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. New preface by Bowles, "Thirty Years Later," composed for this reissue. One of 350 numbered copies SIGNED by Bowles. Miller A6g. This is copy #1.

Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Paul Bowles. Let it Come Down. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, 1980.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Very nice copy , but former owner had a blindstamp and used it on the F.E.P. Limited edition of 350 and this being #203. Signed at verso of the copyright page.

Seller: Culpepper Books, Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.

Bowles, Paul. Let It Come Down. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, 1980.

Price: US$175.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 8vo (24 x 16 cm). 292 pp. Limited to 350 numbered copies, this is copy 9 (on colophon in rear) and is signed by the author opposite the copyright page. Blue paper-covered covers with red/green titles and design to upper. Yellow cloth spine with blue paper label with matching red/green titles. Text block tight and unmarked. Acetate covering. Hand bound in boards by Earle Gray.

Seller: Liberty Book Store ABAA FABA IOBA, Jupiter, FL, U.S.A.

Bowles, Paul. Let It Come Down. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, CA, 1980.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Condition: As New

Description: Hardcover with clear acetate dust wrapper as issued. Limited numbered and signed edition of 350 copies. This is number 212. Bound in light blue boards with cover illustration. Yellow cloth spine strip with title information pasted on. New preface by Bowles, "Thirty Years Later," written for this reissue. AS NEW. Not read. All corners pointed. Binding tight and square. Without tears, chips, creases or bumps. Not marked and very bright and very clean. Acetate wrapper same but for slight bump to top right corners. All carefully wrapped and sent boxed.

Seller: Tree Frog Fine Books and Graphic Arts, Beaverton, OR, U.S.A.

Paul Bowles. Let It Come Down. Black Sparrow Press, 1980.

Price: US$295.00 + shipping

Condition: As New

Description: Santa Barbara CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1980. Limited edition of 1,000 cloth trade copies. Inscribed on the half title page "Paul Bowles / for Bob Hines / Tangier / 26/XI/90" (NOTE: He probably meant 1980, the year of publication). Bowles also signed his name over his initials at the end of the new preface. Hines was a long-time friend of Tennessee Williams. Hines. He and his partner Jack Frick lived in New Orleans and in 1965 Williams suggested they visit Bowles in Tangier: "You'll adore Janie [Bowles], and I've no doubt Paul's New England reserve will relax before your mannerly Southern charm.Things are cheap there. Bootleg liquor is $2.50 for a quart of the best Scotch. A piece of ass is two bucks and the swimming is great in the summer. You must go see them." In 1983 Hines served as a pallbearer at Williams' funeral. Light shelf wear and fading to bottom of boards. Still in the original acetate cover.

Seller: White Square - Fine Books & Art, Easthampton, MA, U.S.A.

BOWLES, Paul. Let It Come Down. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, 1980.

Price: US$400.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First edition with a new preface by the author, hardcover issue. Quarter cloth and decorated paper-covered boards. Very slight suning at bottom of the boards else fine copy in fine publisher's unprinted acetate dust jacket. Copy letter O of 26 lettered copies handbound and signed by Paul Bowles.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

BOWLES, Paul.. Let it Come Down.. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow,, 1980.

Price: US$450.00 + shipping

Description: 292 pp. Foxing along top edges, else near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. Designated "Publisher's Copy" on the colophon page and SIGNED by Bowles.

Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.