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Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
ANSEL ADAMS (1902-1984) Portrait of Henry Miller. Silver print, the image measuring 12 1/4x10 inches (30.5x25.4 cm.), the mount 14 1/2x11 7/8 inches (35.6x27.9 cm.), with Miller's signature, date, and inscription in ink on mount recto, and Adams' San Francisco stamp (BMFA 4) with the negative number in ink and a "For reproduction only" stamp on mount verso. Circa 1959; printed before 1962
Provenance: Gift from the writer Henry Miller to H. Drew Crosby, lesbian book collector and owner of the bookshop Alicorn Books; to the Present Owner
Helen Drew Crosby (1911–1996) was an inveterate book collector who in her later years owned an Irish bookshop, Alicorn Books, in the Sunset District in San Francisco. Over the years, she amassed a vast collection of queer books and ephemera, including an amazing Henry Miller and lesbian pulps collection.
