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Item Details
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| Author: |
Perlès, Alfred |
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SOLD BY PRIVATE TREATYTwo typed letters signed, to Henry Miller |
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Dorset |
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May 11th and July 12th, 1976 |
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196319 |
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424 |
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209 |
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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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$ 600 |
| High Estimate |
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$ 900 |
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| Description: |
| Two 1 page TLs from Alfred Perlès. |
| They remained life-long friends; each called the other "Joey." The first letter begins, "...It feels good to be away from Cyprus and in an intelligible land again. Intelligible? The whole country around here is impregnated with Hardy's spirit and his novels, which I don't seem able to understand. It's all very feudal still...." He goes on to discuss language differences between Chinese and Turkish, and things in general. The second letter regards Miller's Book of Friends, of which he says, "Your former Rabelaisian lustiness seems to have given way to a new mood of nostalgia, don't tell me you're getting old, Joey. Is there any more coming? Surely you can't end up with Alec Considine, the least sympathetique of your friends...Your sense of humour still comes through in patches, in such sentences as `As everyone knows, there is no more enjoyable fuck to be had than from a woman in tears.' It's the `as everyone knows' that made me laugh...." |
| Condition: |
| Condition of both letters is good as they were written on flimsy post-office issued stationery; one with top section detached but present, the other with pieces of corners lacking (a bit of text lost). |
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