Apr 19, 2007 - Sale 2110

Sale 2110 - Lot 86

Price Realized: $ 2,640
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
MILLER, HENRY. Scenario (A Film with Sound). Folding frontispiece by Abraham Rattner. Thin 8vo, signatures loose as issued in unusually bright brown wrappers printed in red; original prospectus laid in; custom cloth chemise and 1/4 brown morocco stamped in gold and blind. Ex-collection John K. Martin with his book label. Paris: Obelisk Press, 1937

Additional Details

wonderful association copy of the first limited edition. inscribed and signed by miller to hans reichl: "Emperor of the oceanic depths! From his good friend Henry Miller Paris 8/37," in sea-green ink on recto of first signature. The work is based on Anaïs Nin's House of Incest. This is number 16, Signed by Miller, from an edition of 200.