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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 with 7-line holograph postscript |
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Wells |
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Dec 17, 1979 |
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196316 |
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424 |
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213 |
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| The Library of Roger Wagner |
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03/18/2010 |
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1pm PST |
| Low Estimate |
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$ 700 |
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$ 1,000 |
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| Description: |
| 1 page TLs with 7-line holograph postscript from Perlès to Henry Miller. One blue paper that doubled as the mailing envelope. 12½x6. |
| Perlès was one of Miller's best friends during his starving Paris years - the two shared an apartment when Miller first arrived. Perlès writes to wish Miller a happy birthday, saying, "Old friends keep dying right and left and I don't want to be the sole survivor like Robinson Crusoe on a desert island without even a Man Friday. So hold on, Joey, will you please? It's a small favour I'm asking you. Although you never sent me your JOEY book (can't think why not), I ordered some copies from Capra Press. It's a beautiful production and I take your `loving portrait' of me as a handsome tribute. Many thanks, Joey, but does your portrait truly portray me? That's the question. Of course, I realize that you talk of me as of someone fifty years ago, i.e. a different person from what I am now. People are subject to metamorphosis in less than fifty years, as you must know. And in your loving portrait I see myself like a faded photograph in an ancient family album. I don't mind being called a clown and a scoundrel (I often call myself worse names), especially since I know I attracted you and you love me as such. As for myself, I both loved you as you were then and still love you as you are now, a different person...." |
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| About fine. |
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