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Published by Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, 1981
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- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Thistle Books, Glasgow, United KingdomThistle Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good first edition. Green cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Edwin Morgan has written on ffep 'Best wishes, Edwin Morgan, August 1983' Somhairle MacGill-Eain (Sorley MacLean) has signed above his photograph on page 63. Inscribed by Author(s).
Our America. From New York City to New Orleans by 1932 Buick October 1940 to January 1941. A Sunderland Arts Centre Exhibition. [Illustrated throughout.]
RATTNER, Abraham, and Henry Miller. Carrell, Christopher, ed.:
Published by Ceolfrith Press, Sunderland Arts Centre, 1976., 1976
- Hardcover
Seller: Charles Cox Rare Books , Bude, United KingdomCharles Cox Rare Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. One of 1,250 copies. 28pp. 4to, pictorial wrappers. Nice copy. Previously unpublished drawings and diary extracts by the Jewish artist Abe Rattner from the epic road trip he made with Henry Miller thirty-five years before. Accompanying this copy are two fine and apposite letters in… Rattner's distinctive and decorative holograph (4pp. 4to) to Harry Herschkowitz, a steeplejack and aspiring novelist whom Miller is said to have used to 'mattress-test' his prospective wives. Writing in the fall of 1945 Rattner congratulates Herschkowitz on his writing - 'Things will surely happen. I always felt sure of that - I believe in you. Go to it. You've got the measure - swing at it.' - and offers criticism and advice: 'The truths of all time - perennial, need but to be turned over - as earth is rotated - to produce good crops - each age restates them in the way needed . . .' The second letter reports that he has shown it to a friend and is 'still trying to get Jimmy Stern [the Anglo-Irish novelist then living in New York] - who is going thru lots of hypodermics etc to get some strength back'. He mentions his wife Bettina, and has 'heard from Henry [Miller]' that 'Laughlin asked for photos drawings etc for H's 1st volume - but a cold fish.' The first volume of Miller's account of their travels, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, was published under Laughlin's New Directions imprint late in the year. Herschkowitz never did write the great American novel he contemplated, but he gets a mention in Miller's book.
