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My Friend Henry Miller (SIGNED) by Perles, Alfred - 1955

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My Friend Henry Miller (SIGNED) by Perles, Alfred - 1955

My Friend Henry Miller (SIGNED)

by Perles, Alfred

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London: Neville Spearman, 1955. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition. INSCRIBED in Miller's hand "For Bob Young" and SIGNED by both Miller and Perles on a paper slip affixed to ffep. Bookplate to front pastedown signed 'Robert Young Jr.' Young was the author of 'From a Different Angle: A Personal Memoir of Henry Miller along with, Always Merry and Bright' published in 1997. Octavo. (xi) 242pp. Photographic plates. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine in photo-illustrated dust jacket. Preface by Henry Miller. A near fine copy (3 small bumps to rear board; light bumping to spine head) in very good dustjacket (wear to extremities with chipping to spine ends & corners; small scrape to lower spine; slight fading to spine). A biography by one of Henry Miller's long time friends about life, work and art in Paris and back home in America; includes writers Anais Nin, Lawrence Durrell and critics such as Eliot, Ezra Pound, Cyril Connolly, and George Orwell. The London edition preceded the American edition. (Shifreen & Jackson B85a).
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  • Date Published 1955
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New York: Belmont, 1962. Good mass market paperback, 1962. Belmont L92-546. Pages yellowed, cover blemished.. Mass Market Paper Back. Good.
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My Friend Henry Miller

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New York: Belmont Books, 1962. Reprint of 1956 Edition. Paperback. Good. An intimate biography of Henry Miller by his close friend Perles, 189 pages. Book top front corner has small bend, two ink lines at rear page, ink notation inside front cover, NF stamped on first page. L92-546.; 4 1/4 x 7
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belmont book, , (first PB 1962), . L92-546, , very good -fine, , reading crease, (Controversial Years Biography), , paperback,
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My Friend, Henry Miller

My Friend, Henry Miller

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U.S.: Belmont L92-546, 1962. Solid with a reading crease along the spine on the front cover and a crease on the top of the back. The previous owner's name is on the first inside page.. 1st Printing. Paperback. Very Good.
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belmont book, , (first PB 1962), . L92-546, , almost near fine, , (Controversial Years Biography), , paperback,
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new york john day 1956., 1956. vg in good dj w/small chips and scuffs. Binding is red cloth..
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My Friend, Henry Miller

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New York: Belmont Books, 1962. First This Edition . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good +. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 189 pp.
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My Friend Henry Miller

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New York: John Day, 1956. name on dedication page, name sticker on flyleaf, good in d.j. . frontispiece. New York: name on dedication page, name sticker on flyleaf, good in dj 1956 preface by Henry Miller
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belmont book, , (first PB 1962), . L92-546, , near fine, , (Controversial Years Biography), , paperback,
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MY FRIEND HENRY MILLER: An Intimate Biography

by Perles, Alfred

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New York: The John Day Company, 1956. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/About Very Good. A biography of perhaps America's most infamous writer, author of "Tropic of Cancer," "Tropic of Capricorn," "The World of Sex," and numerous other works outlawed for years in England and the U.S., by a fellow writer and friend who knew Miller in Paris in the 1930s during the early years of Miller's career. Although Perles later spent a half-year with Miller in Big Sur to enable him to write about Miller's life after World War II, it is the decade of the Thirties, in Paris when it was the capital of the artistic world, that this book is all about. It is "a precise and humerous description of an unusual man who wrote unusual books during an unusual time." 255 pages, with a preface by Miller and including an index and a bibliography of Miller's work in all languages. Boards are worn at the spine ends and corners with a quarter-inch tear at… Read More
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