signed first edition Hardcover
1974 · Los Angeles
by SNYDER, Robert
Los Angeles: Nash Publishing, 1974. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Quarto. Fine in very good plus dustwrapper with one longish tear. Inscribed by Miller to his second wife June Mansfield: "For June, Merry Xmas! Henry 1974." Mansfield was perhaps Miller's most important influence, and his muse for most of his earliest and most famous works. In the text of this book Miller relates: "...I was married a few years when I finally ran into 'Mona,' in my books, you know, in the dance hall, and we were caught in bed one morning when I thought my wife had gone on a vacation... So I left her immediately and went to live with June - 'Mona.' And it was through my new wife that I got the courage to make my final decisions and to live by them... she used to say to me, 'Look, give up that job; Start to write.'" A nice association.
(Inventory #: 54401)