[Rarebooks] FS: MANUSCRIPT Archive of Henry Miller's CHINA

Charles Agvent charles at charlesagvent.com
Tue Aug 15 09:56:42 EDT 2023


MILLER, Henry. ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED (AMS) with CORRECTED 
TYPESCRIPT of CHINA. . A 6-page (8-1/2" x 11") manuscript COMPLETELY IN 
MILLER'S HAND and SIGNED by him at the conclusion, with a Typed 
Manuscript of the same in 5 pages with minor ink corrections and 
Miller's chop at the end. Eventually printed in Miller's MOTHER, CHINA 
AND THE WORLD BEYOND (1976) by the Capra Press. With a SIGNED copy (#161 
of 250) of the book included. Miller records his impressions of a China 
about which he had only heard and read. "Even as a boy the name China 
evoked strange sensations in me. It spelled everything that was vast, 
marvelous, magical, and incomprehensible. To say China was to stand 
things upside down." Small paperclip rust stain at top of first page of 
each manuscript. About Fine. (#021346)        $2,500

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