Description
Capra Press, Published 1991. Paperback, 94 pp.; 29 cm; illustrated with black-and-white photographs.
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In Very Good condition. Glossy coppery pictorial covers, black and red lettering, black-and-white cover photograph of Miller. Light bumping and creasing to edges and corners, mild shelf wear and light soiling overall. Original bookstore price sticker on rear cover. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. [From back cover] HENRY MILLER, remembered for his free-wheeling years in Paris, his friendship with Anais Nin, Lawrence Durrell, Alfred Perles and many others, plus the landmark Supreme Court decision overturning obscenity charges against his Tropic of Cancer, has become a literary legend. 1991 is the centenary year of his birth, a fitting time for his long-time neighbor and friend, William Webb, to bring out this book of photographs and anecdotes of Miller's life in California and those of his family and friends. They were a colorful bunch, including painter Ephraim Doner, Varda and Emil White, photographers Wynn Bullock, and Brassai from Paris. Also included are personalities from the film world such as Elia Kazan, Barbara Loden and Joe Gray. Webb photographed Miller over twenty years at Big Sur and Pacific Palisades, never intending publication. Foreword by Gretel Ehrlich. Author portrait by Laura Gilpin, Santa Fe 1970. Contents: Foreword; Introduction; First Encounters; Walker Winslow at Synanon; Ephraim Doner, Famous for his Obscurity; Florian Steiner; Viva Ziva; Elia Kazan and Barbara Loden; Henry, his Hormones and his "Emilator"; Crazy Lauretta; The Family Portrait; Salut, Tony!; Norman Mini; Jonathan Williams; Lawrence Ferlinghetti; Noel Young; Yanko Varda; Howard Welch; Wynn Bullock and the Fourth Dimension; Henry as Nature Boy; Harrydick and Eve; Joe Grey; The Japanese Connection; Caryl Hill; Brassai and Kerwin Whitnah.