Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Mrabet, Mohammed; Bowles, Paul. THE BIG MIRROR. Black Sparrow, Santa Barbara, 1977.
Price: US$17.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good in original wraps, slight yellowing and fading, sticker residue. Pretty little book from crafty small press. Famous collaboration between Paul Bowles, taping these oral history accounts, wild and unkempt as their auteur Tangier homme de boulevards Mrabet(pesud.) 78p., text in English, a couple of nice drawings not attributed as far as i can see. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: David Gaines, Eureka, CA, U.S.A.
Mrabet, Mohammed and Paul Bowles (trans.). The Big Mirror. Black Sparrow Press, 1977.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: Limited to 1/500 copies. Faint tide mark to lower front board, spine sunned, else near fine in near fine publisher's acetate jacket.
Seller: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
MRABET, Mohammed, Paul Bowles. The Big Mirror. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, 1977.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, hardcover trade issue. Translated by Paul Bowles. Cloth and decorated papercovered boards in unprinted acetate dustwrapper. Fine. One of 500 unnumbered hardcover copies.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Trade hardbound first edition in clear acetate wrapper. 77 pp. A short novel by Mrabet. Translated into English from the Moghrebi by his friend Paul Bowles. A clean near fine copy.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
Mrabet, Mohammed (translated by Bowles, Paul). The Big Mirror. Black Sparrow Press, 1977.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: One of 200 signed and numbered copies. This is #181 signed by Mrabet and Paul Bowles on the colophon. Near fine with a trace of toning to the top edges in a near fine, original acetate jacket.
Seller: Paul Johnson Fine Books, IOBA, Temecula, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Limited Issue. One of 500 hardcover copies. Very Fine in dark blue cloth over blue decorated paper covered boards, in clear unprinted acetate dustwrapper. 77pp. English only. Unattributed cover and frontispiece art. Q18052
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo. 77 pp. Color illustrated frontis by the author. Taped & Translated from the Moghrebi by Paul Bowles. Fine condition in pale blue illustrated boards with red cloth spine in lightly used clear acetate wrapper. This is copy 172 of 200 hand-numbered copies SIGNED by both Bowles and Mrabet.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
(BOWLES, Paul, translated by). MRABET, Mohammed. The Big Mirror. Black Sparrow, Santa Barbara, 1977.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, wrappered issue. Translated by Paul Bowles. 77pp. Wrappers lightly soiled, else fine.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
BOWLES, Paul translates Mohammed Mrabet.. The Big Mirror.. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow,, 1977.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: 77 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. Taped and translated from the Moghrebi by Paul Bowles. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Bowles and Mrabet. Morrow & Cooney 264c.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
(BOWLES, Paul, translated by). MRABET, Mohammed. The Big Mirror. Black Sparrow, Santa Barbara, 1977.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Translated by Paul Bowles. Cloth and decorated papercovered boards in unprinted acetate dustwrapper. Fine. One of 200 numbered copies Signed by both Bowles and Mrabet. A relatively small limitation.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
MRABET, Mohammed, Paul Bowles. The Big Mirror. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, 1977.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, numbered issue. Translated by Paul Bowles. Cloth and decorated papercovered boards in unprinted acetate dustwrapper. Fine. One of 200 numbered copies Signed by both Bowles and Mrabet. A relatively small limitation.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Mrabet, Mohammed. The Big Mirror. Black Sparrow Press, 1977.
Price: US$140.00 + shipping
Description: Santa Barbara. 1977. Black Sparrow Press. 1 of 200 Copies Numbered & Signed By Both Author and Translator. Very Good in Hardcover. 0876853696. Taped and Translated from the Moghrebi by Paul Bowles. 81 pages. hardcover. Signed By Both Bowles and Mrabet. keywords: Literature Translated Arabic North Africa . FROM THE PUBLISHER - A collaboration between Paul Bowles, who taped and then translated these stories of Tangier from the Moghrebi, and Moroccan author Mohammed Mrabet. inventory #5779
Seller: zenosbooks, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Bowles, Paul. (Trans.) Mrabet, Mohammed. (Story). THE BIG MIRROR.. BLACK SPARROW PRESS., NY, 1977.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: SIGNED Limited Edition. Copy #52 of 200 numbered copies. Fine in quarter cloth & decorated boards in a clear acetate protective wrapper as issued. Signed by Paul Bowles & Mohammed Mrabet.
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Mrabet, Mohammed; Bowles, Paul (translator). The Big Mirror. Black Sparrow Press, 1977.
Price: US$251.53 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New. Fast Shipping and good customer service
Seller: GoldenWavesOfBooks, Fayetteville, TX, U.S.A.
Mrabet, Mohammed; Bowles, Paul (translator). The Big Mirror. Brand: Black Sparrow Press, 1977.
Price: US$252.25 + shipping
Condition: New
Description:
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Mrabet, Mohammed; Bowles, Paul (translator). The Big Mirror. Black Sparrow Press, 1977.
Price: US$252.57 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed
Seller: GoldBooks, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Mrabet, Mohammed; Bowles, Paul (translator). The Big Mirror. Black Sparrow Press, 1977.
Price: US$253.92 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New
Seller: Wizard Books, Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, copy "L" of 26 lettered handbound copies. Signed by Mohammed Mrabet and Paul Bowles on rear colophon. 77, [5] pp. Bound in publisher's boards with patterned cloth backstrip, title label, in clear acetate jacket. Light foxing along top and bottom edges of boards, else Fine. The talented Moroccan oral storyteller Mohammed Mrabet's most surreal, violent, and macabre novel, like most of his work taped and ably translated by American expat author and composer Paul Bowles. A recommended read.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: Deluxe Issue, one of 26 lettered copies specially bound and signed by the author and translator, this being copy 'N'. Octavo (22.25cm); pictorial paper-covered boards and floral-patterned cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [6],7-77,[7]pp, with illustrated frontispiece by the author. Fine in a lightly rubbed, Near Fine dustjacket. Miller A32d.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.
MRABET, Mohammed. Paul Bowles, translated by. The Big Mirror. Black Sparrow, Santa Barbara, 1977.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, lettered issue. Taped and translated from the Moghrebí by Paul Bowles. Octavo. Cloth and decorated papercovered boards. Tiny stain on topedge else fine in trifle rubbed, fine unprinted acetate dust jacket. Copy "A" of 26 lettered copies Signed by both Bowles and Mrabet.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, lettered issue. Taped and translated from the Moghrebí by Paul Bowles. Octavo. Cloth and decorated papercovered boards. Fine in fine unprinted acetate dust jacket. Copy D of 26 lettered copies Signed by both Bowles and Mrabet.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
BOWLES, Paul translates Mohammed Mrabet.. The Big Mirror.. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow,, 1977.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: 77 pp. Some foxing to top edges, else very near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. Taped and translated from the Moghrebi by Paul Bowles. Designated "Publisher's Copy" on the colophon page and SIGNED by Bowles and Mrabet.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.