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Author: Miller, Henry
Title: The Paintings of Henry Miller: Paint as you like and die happy
Place: Santa Barbara
Publisher: Capra Press
Date: 1982
Item # : 188136
Sale Number   377
Lot Number   131
Sale Name    
Fine Literature; Beats, Bukowski & the Counter Culture; Sci-Fi & Detective Fiction
Sale Date   04/03/2008
Price realized   $ 192
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Description:
Edited with a Preface by Noel Young. Foreword by Lawrence Durrell. Illustrated from color paintings by Miller; plus numerous drawings. Also, 3 folding facsimile autograph letters by Miller, laid in. 4to. Dark blue coarse cloth, spine lettered in gilt, publisher's slipcase with color pictorial label. No. 76 of 250 copies. First Edition.
Signed by Lawrence Durrell in the colophon. Includes 3 typed letters signed by the editor/publisher Noel Young to Arthur Feldman, each dated 1982, regarding the book and other Henry Miller related content, on Capra Press letterhead; also, an ad prospectus slip, all laid in. Shifreen & Jackson A238a.
Condition:
Fine.
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