BOWLES, PAUL. The Sheltering Sky. 8vo, original tan cloth; dust jacket, unclipped, minor rubbing; housed in a custom cloth drop-back case. first american edition of the author's first and best-known work. The film adaptation directed by Bernardo Bertolucci was released in 1990 with narration and a cameo by Bowles, though he thought little of it. New York: New Directions, (1949)