Research Catalog

Title

Preface to Henry Miller's Tropic of cancer / Anais Nin.

Author

Nin, Anaïs, 1903-1977.

Publication

[New York? : [Gemor Press?, [1947]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Nin, Anaïs, 1903-1977.
• Miller, Henry, 1891-1980.

Description

6 unnumbered pages : 1 mounted illustrations; 20 cm

Subjects

• Nin, Anaïs, 1903-1977 > Portraits
• Miller, Henry, 1891-1980 > Tropic of Cancer

Note

• Cover title.
• Issued in black card wrappers, staple-bound, lettered in gold.
• With a list of books and pamphlets by Miller on penultimate page, and an advertisement for Nin’s Realism and Reality on final page.
• Variant issue with frontispiece photographic portrait of Nin.
• With an introduction by Lawrence R. Maxwell.
• Though Nin is given sole credit for the preface, Mary Dearborn’s The Happiest Man Alive (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991, p. 117), demonstrates that Miller wrote it (“he wrote the essay himself and had Nin sign it (she no doubt had something to do with its composition as well).”

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Indexed In (note)

• Franklin,
• Shifreen & Jackson,

Call Number

Berg Coll Miller, H P74 1947

OCLC

64382798

Author

Nin, Anaïs, 1903-1977.

Title

Preface to Henry Miller's Tropic of cancer / Anais Nin.

Imprint

[New York? : [Gemor Press?, [1947]

Edition

First separate edition.

Indexed In:

Franklin, A12

Shifreen & Jackson, A59a.

Local Note

Berg Collection copy with laid-in copy of the preface printed for unidentified edition (2 leaves, p. xxxi-xxxiii), inscribed and signed by Miller in black pen at bottom of last page, “In the midst of darkness there is light.”

Access

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Added Author

Nin, Anaïs, 1903-1977. Attributed name

Miller, Henry, 1891-1980. Inscriber

Miller, Henry, 1891-1980. Signer

Research Call Number

Berg Coll Miller, H P74 1947