[Rarebooks] FS: Henry Miller: TO PAINT IS TO LOVE AGAIN, Inscribed to his third wife

[Charles Agvent]

MILLER,  Henry. TO PAINT IS TO LOVE AGAIN. Alhambra,  CA:  Cambria
Books  (1960). First Edition. Original beige cloth boards decorated in
blue.  Illustrated  with  14 reproductions of watercolors  by  Miller.
Shifreen  & Jackson A123a: Copy #9 of only 50 of the Special  Edition.
Rather  than  being signed on the limitation page, this  copy  bears a
SIGNED  INSCRIPTION by the author on the half-title page to his  third
wife:  "For/Lepska/from/Henry."  In 1944, a decade after  his  divorce
from  his second wife, June Mansfield, and his affair with Anais  Nin,
Miller  married a Polish immigrant and graduate student, Janina Martha
Lepska.  Despite having two of his three children with Lepska, as  she
was  known,  Miller's  marriage collapsed in 1951  over  disagreements
about  child  rearing and they were divorced the following  year.  The
front  free endpaper, tellingly, contains a 1964 SIGNED INSCRIPTION by
Lepska  "To Miss McBride/with admiration and gratitude." Fine in  Near
Fine dustwrapper with minor rubbing and edgewear.             $2000.00


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