Je suis Jonathan Scrivener [I am Jonathan Scrivener.]

(Miller.) HOUGHTON (Claude)

Je suis Jonathan Scrivener [I am Jonathan Scrivener.]

Traduit de l'anglais par Jean Rosenthal. Préface d'Henry Miller.

Description: FIRST FRENCH EDITION, paper browned, pp. 318, crown 8vo, original cream wrappers printed in black and green, a couple of very faint spots to border of front, bottom corner of rear a little creased, a couple of tiny nicks, chipped at head of front, edges untrimmed and largely uncut, good

Publication Details: Paris: Corrêa, [1954]

Notes: The half-title is inscribed by Henry Miller, who provides a 5pp. Preface to this edition, exhorting the bookseller and broadcaster Fred Bason to 'get the original text of my "Preface" from Claude Houghton and broadcast it during one of your television or radio talks', suggesting that doing so 'would create something of a sensation. It's really a greater book than you think - if you don't mind my saying so', before wishing him 'good luck! Henry Miller 7/17/54'.Bason does not seem to have read further than Miller's printed contribution here - perhaps he had recourse to a copy of the English tex...moreThe half-title is inscribed by Henry Miller, who provides a 5pp. Preface to this edition, exhorting the bookseller and broadcaster Fred Bason to 'get the original text of my "Preface" from Claude Houghton and broadcast it during one of your television or radio talks', suggesting that doing so 'would create something of a sensation. It's really a greater book than you think - if you don't mind my saying so', before wishing him 'good luck! Henry Miller 7/17/54'.Bason does not seem to have read further than Miller's printed contribution here - perhaps he had recourse to a copy of the English text. HIDE

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Price: £300

Subject: Modern First Edition

Published Date: [1954]

Stock Number: 69315

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