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Item Details
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| Author: |
Perlès, Alfred |
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SOLD BY PRIVATE TREATYOne-page typed letter signed to Henry Miller |
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Wells |
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8/12/79 |
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196315 |
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424 |
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212 |
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| The Library of Roger Wagner |
| Sale Date |
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03/18/2010 |
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1pm PST |
| Low Estimate |
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$ 200 |
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$ 300 |
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| Description: |
| 1 page TLs. 12½x6, on blue paper that doubled as the mailing envelope. |
| A friendly and funny letter from Miller's longtime best friend, with whom he spent his early years in Paris. Miller wrote much about his love of "Joey" (which they both called each other) during his life. On having received from Miller a photograph of Miller and the young Brenda Venus, Perlès writes: "...But Venus is a beauty! Has she perchance a sister called Aphrodite and if so could she be shipped to me? Greek goddesses are in short supply here. My last one, Ceres (in charge of agriculture, cornflakes, etc.) died a few weeks ago at the age of 29. Overdose of some drug. Aphrodite would suit me fine. If she's as lovely as your Venus I might turn myself into a male Scheherezade and tell her a thousand and one stories which I'm afraid I could no longer enact. (I always liked metaphors and don't mind mixing them). Yes, the address sounds good, but you know Wells. It's a narrow-minded town (pop. 8,000) that only prides itself on a cathedral less than a thousand years old and already in need of being propped up every now and then. Like us, really...." |
| Condition: |
| Air letter is fragile, with top 1/3 nearly detached, lower 1/3 is still attached to middle 1/3 at margin, else a good letter with interesting content. |
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