Title: SOLD BY PRIVATE TREATYBooks to Write About - Or Subjects: original spiral-bound notebook with Henry Miller holograph notes Author: Miller, Henry Place: No place Publisher: Date: [c.1950] Description: Spiral-bound notebook filled almost completely with holograph notes by Miller about books and subjects in his life to remember and write about for his book Books in My Life. Approx. 80 pages of text in purple & black ink. Miller intended to write a book of "Books in My Life," and this is his original compilation of notes for that book. Notebook contains lists of books read and books to read, including favorite quotes, as well as books never read and never to be read again ("never read - regret!"); a brief outline of the planned book; a lengthy section entitled "Zen in Eng. Lit." containing many quotes and anecdotes to use, etc. He also has pages of jottings of memories about books and life to relate to the reader, like his experiences at a bath-house: "The Hot Baths: All who ran it, from fairy bookseller (Warren Wright - bad checks!) to 2 old fairies, one with raw ass! The audacious obnoxious fairy - every Thursday. Confessions and revelations about `the clan' & their doings. `Keep hands off him!' (Tony) just `tolerating' us normal ones...pricks with fancy poodles, cattle men from ? with balls like a bull (living Priapus) - rolls of fat. Mr. Aram strutting like a peacock...Solitude. Idiots with rifles - target practice on seals! The whales, sea otters, sea weed, mist, smells, clouds, waves - double-faced rock of King & Queen - color of rocks at low tide - old bath tubs teetering on rocks below. Snakes on roof in hot weather. Rocks tumbling...." Miller also lists "Birds I know & recognize," "Weeds," "Trees," "Visits from....," "Coincidences & Things coming in at right moment!....," "Thankful to have met, if only once:....," "Good lines to use: She was as attractive as an earwig!..." lastly, he writes, "End book with Fred's coming to write biography! Rescue of me in Paris and vice-versa (Villa Seurat). Now 'putting me on the map'! First full book on me...." A couple pages detached, else very good - filled with interesting data on Miller's life at Big Sur and influences of books read. Lot Amendments Condition: Very good. Item number: 196391
Title: SOLD BY PRIVATE TREATYBooks to Write About - Or Subjects: original spiral-bound notebook with Henry Miller holograph notes Author: Miller, Henry Place: No place Publisher: Date: [c.1950] Description: Spiral-bound notebook filled almost completely with holograph notes by Miller about books and subjects in his life to remember and write about for his book Books in My Life. Approx. 80 pages of text in purple & black ink. Miller intended to write a book of "Books in My Life," and this is his original compilation of notes for that book. Notebook contains lists of books read and books to read, including favorite quotes, as well as books never read and never to be read again ("never read - regret!"); a brief outline of the planned book; a lengthy section entitled "Zen in Eng. Lit." containing many quotes and anecdotes to use, etc. He also has pages of jottings of memories about books and life to relate to the reader, like his experiences at a bath-house: "The Hot Baths: All who ran it, from fairy bookseller (Warren Wright - bad checks!) to 2 old fairies, one with raw ass! The audacious obnoxious fairy - every Thursday. Confessions and revelations about `the clan' & their doings. `Keep hands off him!' (Tony) just `tolerating' us normal ones...pricks with fancy poodles, cattle men from ? with balls like a bull (living Priapus) - rolls of fat. Mr. Aram strutting like a peacock...Solitude. Idiots with rifles - target practice on seals! The whales, sea otters, sea weed, mist, smells, clouds, waves - double-faced rock of King & Queen - color of rocks at low tide - old bath tubs teetering on rocks below. Snakes on roof in hot weather. Rocks tumbling...." Miller also lists "Birds I know & recognize," "Weeds," "Trees," "Visits from....," "Coincidences & Things coming in at right moment!....," "Thankful to have met, if only once:....," "Good lines to use: She was as attractive as an earwig!..." lastly, he writes, "End book with Fred's coming to write biography! Rescue of me in Paris and vice-versa (Villa Seurat). Now 'putting me on the map'! First full book on me...." A couple pages detached, else very good - filled with interesting data on Miller's life at Big Sur and influences of books read. Lot Amendments Condition: Very good. Item number: 196391
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