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Henry Miller miscellanea.

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection AC9 M6145 945h
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Miller, Henry, 1891-1980.
Contributor:
Porter, Bern, 1911-2004.
Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Genre:
Fiction.
Penn Provenance:
Porter, Bern, 1911-2004 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)
Physical Description:
12 unnumbered pages, 41 pages, 7 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Edition:
[First edition].
Place of Publication:
[Berkeley, California] : Bern Porter, 1945.
Contents:
Black and white
A Bowery phoenix
To the reader of this excerpt
The Cirque Medrano
Work schedule
The painting lesson
Epilogue to Black Spring
Fall and winter fashions.
Notes:
With half-title.
Introductory note on preliminary page signed in ms. by Bern Porter.
"500 copies of Henry Miller's Miscellanea have been printed at the Greenwood Press of San Mateo, California. Printed on Worthy Hand & Arrow paper, and set in Bodoni ten-point type. June 1945."
Cancelled postcard written in Miller's hand has been inserted into a slit on p. [43]. Unknown number of copies were remaindered without postcards.
White paper boards lettered in black and illustrated in brown by Henry Miller. Back board has facsimile of "Xmas at Beverly Glen 1943".
Local Notes:
Culture Class Collection copy is no. 169.
Culture Class Collection copy has address label of Motive Book Shop, Route 7, Box 613, Waco, Texas.
OCLC:
3287300

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