first edition
1956 · Paris
by Miller, Henry; Brassaï [Photographs]
Paris: The Olympia Press, 1956. First Edition. 10mo., 171 pages. In Good minus condition. Bound in yellow, black, and gray wraps with no lettering to spine. Creasing to spine. A notoriously delicate binding, this copy has glue visible along the gutters, gatherings separated from spine at second free end paper, name on second free end paper, pen on rear flap. States 'First and Original Edition' on title-page. Shelved in Case 2. A novella covering Miller's time living as a struggling writer in Paris during the 1930s, roughly during the same time that he was working on Black Spring. This first edition was published by Olympia Press in 1956 while Miller's (truncated)