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My Friend Henry Miller (SIGNED)
by Perles, Alfred
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
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About This Item
London: Neville Spearman, 1955. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition. INSCRIBED in Miller's hand "For Rollo Peters" and SIGNED by both Miller and Perles on a paper slip affixed to ffep. Charles Rollo Peters III was the son of noted California artist, Charles Rollo Peters, Jr. Two handwritten postcards (one an image of Miller at age 3 and the other an image of Miller's self portrait) from Henry Miller to Mr. Webster Street. Webster (Toby) Street was a life-long friend with John Steinbeck as well as one of his attorneys. Octavo. (xi) 242pp. Photographic plates. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine in photo-illustrated dust jacket. Preface by Henry Miller. Near fine (sunning to spine ends; offsetting to endpapers) in about very good dustjacket (chips to spine head, not affecting the title; creasing and chips to spine tail and lower front edge; wear to corners). 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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- Bookseller
- Carpe Diem Fine Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16970
- Title
- My Friend Henry Miller (SIGNED)
- Author
- Perles, Alfred
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Neville Spearman
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1955
- Keywords
- Anais Nin; big sur; paris; biography; monterey peninsula; john steinbeck; toby street, Signed Books, , ,
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