Title: Insomnia, or the Devil at Large Author: Miller, Henry Place: Albuquerque, NM Publisher: Loujon Press Date: 1970 Description: Book illustrated from photos, facsimile letters and writings by Miller and engravings; measures 12x8½", spiral-bound card-stock book with decorative metallic foil-covered attached jacket (cloth backing) in multiple colors, front cover flap fold. Together with: 12 broadsides (22x17") from Miller's artwork; and a card-stock plate with pictorial title label, all housed inside the specially-made wooden portfolio box coated with decorative golden-leaf paper and slide-out front cover with two-tone onlay wooden borders, book inside special hollow-out section of foam; also, an original painting (13x10") of a white flower on thin stock paper affixed to inside back of wooden box, not signed but is by Henry Miller front with pictorial cover from photo of Miller with his wife Hoki Tokuda and the book title; plus engraved metal plate with original subscriber's name, Al Woodbury, engraved. No. 8 of 99 hand-numbered copies. Edition "F". Several of the prints signed by Henry Miller (as called for in this edition but with an inconsistent number of signed plates among the edition "from one to all 12" according to the publisher). The last significant book production from the famous New Orleans (later Albuquerque) publisher (Jon and Gypsy Lou Webb), who also had an art gallery, where they displayed various Bohemian artists, thus their involvement here with Miller. The book production, with all the different editions, materials used and overall expenses caused major financial problems, plus along with the death of Jon Webb in 1971, soon ended the era of the Loujon Press. A printed letter from John and Gypsy Lou Webb, signed by Gypsy, on the back of reprinted newspaper article, laid in. Shifreen & Jackson A175f: "It is believed that no more than 65 copies of this edition were actually published." Lot Amendments Condition: Lightly worn; near fine. Item number: 263566
Title: Insomnia, or the Devil at Large Author: Miller, Henry Place: Albuquerque, NM Publisher: Loujon Press Date: 1970 Description: Book illustrated from photos, facsimile letters and writings by Miller and engravings; measures 12x8½", spiral-bound card-stock book with decorative metallic foil-covered attached jacket (cloth backing) in multiple colors, front cover flap fold. Together with: 12 broadsides (22x17") from Miller's artwork; and a card-stock plate with pictorial title label, all housed inside the specially-made wooden portfolio box coated with decorative golden-leaf paper and slide-out front cover with two-tone onlay wooden borders, book inside special hollow-out section of foam; also, an original painting (13x10") of a white flower on thin stock paper affixed to inside back of wooden box, not signed but is by Henry Miller front with pictorial cover from photo of Miller with his wife Hoki Tokuda and the book title; plus engraved metal plate with original subscriber's name, Al Woodbury, engraved. No. 8 of 99 hand-numbered copies. Edition "F". Several of the prints signed by Henry Miller (as called for in this edition but with an inconsistent number of signed plates among the edition "from one to all 12" according to the publisher). The last significant book production from the famous New Orleans (later Albuquerque) publisher (Jon and Gypsy Lou Webb), who also had an art gallery, where they displayed various Bohemian artists, thus their involvement here with Miller. The book production, with all the different editions, materials used and overall expenses caused major financial problems, plus along with the death of Jon Webb in 1971, soon ended the era of the Loujon Press. A printed letter from John and Gypsy Lou Webb, signed by Gypsy, on the back of reprinted newspaper article, laid in. Shifreen & Jackson A175f: "It is believed that no more than 65 copies of this edition were actually published." Lot Amendments Condition: Lightly worn; near fine. Item number: 263566
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