Accession number
PML 186415
Creator
Miller, Henry, 1891-1980.
Published
New York : Duell, Sloan & Pearce, ©1948.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Notes
First edition.
"A Merle Armitage Book"--Title page.
Contains introductory passage "About Henry Miller" by Edwin Corle (pp. 19-40).
Illustrations after works by Paul Klee, Pablo Picasso, Paul Chagall, Georges Rouault, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and André Dunoyer de Segonzac. Cf. colophon.
"A Merle Armitage Book"--Title page.
Contains introductory passage "About Henry Miller" by Edwin Corle (pp. 19-40).
Illustrations after works by Paul Klee, Pablo Picasso, Paul Chagall, Georges Rouault, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and André Dunoyer de Segonzac. Cf. colophon.
Description
124 pages, [6] folded leaves of plates : illustrations, facsimile ; 24 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Author's inscription in ink on front flyleaf: For Danford Barney -- from an utter stranger who comes in the guise of a friend. Pax Vobiscum! [signed] Henry Miller, 10/31/49, Chez Alexis, le roi de divertissements.
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Binding
Brown and blue boards lettered in blue and orange, backed in publisher's black cloth, orange and white striped endpapers, with orange printed dust jacket designed by Merle Armitage.
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