My Friend Henry Miller : An Intimate Biography by Alfred Perles

Perles, Alfred with preface by Henry Miller

ISBN 10: 0840210760 / ISBN 13: 9780840210760

Published by Neville Spearman, London, 1955

About this Item

Price of 16s on the DJ is NOT clipped with DJ nicely preserved in archival wraps. Presentation copy Signed by both Perles (green ink) and Miller (blue ink) on card stock pasted on the front free end page. First edition points include blue cloth hardcover boards with gilt lettering; illustrated with 10 pages of intimate photographs of Miller. Ref. B85a of Shifreen & Jackson bibliography. Very uncommon. DJ with heavy wear with tears to the edges and 1-inch chip taken from the front panel. Heavy toning to the boards with foxing to the page edges and end pages; heavy toning to the end pages. Alfred Perlès (1897?1990) was an Austrian writer (in later life a British citizen), who was most famous for his associations with Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell, and Anaïs Nin.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: My Friend Henry Miller : An Intimate Biography by Alfred Perles
• Publisher: Neville Spearman, London
• Publication Date: 1955
• ISBN 10: 0840210760
• ISBN 13: 9780840210760
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fair
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed

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Synopsis

First Edition. Quarto size scrapbook of conversations tracing Miller's life from childhood to literary lion, with commentary by Miller. Illustrated with frames from Snyder's 1969 documentary film The Henry Miller Odyssey.