Delicate Prey

by Paul Bowles

$350 · Offered by Whitmore Rare Books

First edition

New York: Random House. First edition. A Fine copy of the book in a Near Fine dust jacket. The jacket with the spine faded as often and with one short split to the front flap fold. 'All the tales are a variety of detective story,' wrote Bowles of this, his first short story collection, 'in which the reader is the detective; the mystery is the motivation of the characters'

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