Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
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$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 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.
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.
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.