Paul Bowles // Un Thé au Sahara

First Limited French edition of the book "The Sheltering Sky" initially published in 1949, from which the eponymous film by Bernardo Bertolucci was drawn in 1990. 

As per Tennessee Williams (New York Times, Dec 4, 1949), "The story itself is a chronicle of startling adventure against a background of the Sahara and the Arab-populated regions of the African Continent, a portion of the world seldom dealt with by first-rate writers who actually know it. Paul Bowles does know it, and much better, for instance, than it was known by André Gide. He probably knows it even better than Albert Camus."

One of the 80 copies on pure Lafuma Navarre vellum, only deluxe edition. 

Unopened, in a near fine condition.