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74 MILLER, Henry. Tropic of Cancer. Preface by Anaïs Nin. Paris: The Obelisk Press, 1934 Rare in the original wrappers and with the original prospectus loosely inserted
73 MILLAY, Edna St Vincent. The Ballad of the Harp Weaver. New York: printed for Frank Shay, 1922 First edition, one of five copies printed on japon and signed by Millay on the half-title, the rarest and most desirable issue of this poem, which won the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. There were also 500 copies on regular paper, with 425 in orange wrappers, and 75 in five other colours in batches of 15. This copy has the bookplate of Henry Lewis Batterman Jr., once tipped-in to the inside cover of the chemise, now loose. A torn leaf from an early (but undated) auction catalogue is laid in, listing this rare japon copy as “the first copy to appear at public sale”. Of the five copies on japon, the only one we can trace in more recent auction records is the Efrem Zimablist copy. Small octavo. Original red wrappers lettered and illustrated in black to front cover. Housed in a custom red cloth chemise and red morocco- backed slipcase. Frontispiece and four further black line illustrations by Frank Shay. Slight creasing to top edge of notably bright wrappers, contents clean, a near-fine copy, well-preserved in the lightly rubbed slipcase, its silk pull frayed short. £6,750 [153731]
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