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Lot 297
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The Colossus of Maroussi San Francisco: The Colt Press, (1941). First trade edition. 8vo. Book-plate of Henry Kurth (possibly the theaterlighting and set designer) on front free endpaper. Blue cloth; in dust-jacket; paper spine label. Small chips to joints and edges of dust-jacket, discoloration and slight dampstains to rear panel of same, moderate wear to joints and edges of cloth, some dampstains to same; book-plate offset onto front paste-down and dust-jacket flap, slight discoloration to endpapers, text slightly toned at edges. Reflections on the Maurizius Case Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1974. First and limited edition, #53/275 numbered copies and signed by Miller on the limitation page. 8vo. Original gilt-lettered grey cloth, pictorial cover label. Lightly worn. Henry Miller’s Book of Friends Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1976. First and limited edition, #58/250 numbered copies and signed by Miller on the limitation page. 8vo. With photo illustrations. Original black leatherette; gilt-lettered spine; in acetate dust-jacket. Near Fine. Gliding into the Everglades and other essays [Santa Barbara]: Lost Pleiade Press, 1977. First and limited edition, #234/250 numbered copies and signed by Miller on the limitation page. 12mo. Original blue-cloth-backed pictorial mustard boards; lettered in green; lacking acetate dust-jacket. Lightly worn; internally clean. (Porter, Bern), publisher The Happy Rock: A Book about Henry Miller (Berkeley: Packard Press), (1945). Second issue, out-of-series copy. 4to. Ferdnand Leger-designed quarter grey cloth over pictorial boards; in Abraham Rattner-designed dust-jacket. Printed on variously colored papers. Contributions by Lawrence Durrell, William Carlos Williams, and others. Light edge wear, dust-jacket moderately toned, occasional small chips to same; ownership signature front free endpaper, text bright.