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PAUL BOWLES AT 80

1940s

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Letter to Freddy: For Voice and Piano. Lyric by Gertrude Stein; music by Paul Bowles. New York: G. Schirmer, Inc. [1947]. Upon meeting Bowles in 1931, Gertrude Stein "renamed" him Freddy. Letter to Freddy contains the text of an early letter from Stein to Bowles which he set to music. This copy bears Bowles's signature on the cover.

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The Flowers of Friendship: Letters Written to Gertrude Stein, edited by Donald Gallup. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. Includes two of Paul Bowles's letters to Gertrude Stein.

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"Hebdomeros (Part I)," by Giorgio de Chirico, translated from the French by Paul Bowles, in View (New York), Series 4 (October 1944).

Letter to Freddy

Letter to Freddy: For Voice and Piano. NY:
Schirmer, Inc., [1947].

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"The Point of View," preface to Tropical Americana, special issue edited by Paul Bowles. View (New York), Series 5 (May 1945).

A Night with Jupiter

A Night with Jupiter and Other Fantastic
Stories. View Editions, [1945].

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"Bluey: A Diary," in A Night with Jupiter and Other Fantastic Stories, edited by Charles Henri Ford. [New York]: View Editions [1945]. A story Bowles originally wrote at the age of nine.

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An American Hero: For Voice and Piano. Music by Paul Bowles, lyrics by Andrew Law and Nathaniel Niles. Providence, R.I.: Axelrod Music Publications [1944]. Contemporary American Composers Series No. 10.

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Blue Mountain Ballads. Lyrics by Tennessee Williams, music by Paul Bowles. New York: G. Schirmer [1946].

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Six Preludes for Piano. New York: Music Press [1947].

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Three. Music by Paul Bowles, poem by Tennessee Williams. New York: Hargail Music Press [1947].

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The Sheltering Sky. London: John Lehmann [1949]. First printing of Paul Bowles's first published novel.

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The Sheltering Sky. New York: New Directions [1949].

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Paul Bowles to Peter Rand, typed letter signed, November 8, 1969, 1 p. Bowles includes a discussion of technical problems he faced when writing The Sheltering Sky.

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El Cielo Protector, traducción de A. Bernárdez. Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana [1954]. First Spanish language edition of The Sheltering Sky.

Paul Bowles to Peter Rand, November 8, 1969

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