1952 HENRY MILLER ~ THE BOOKS IN MY LIFE 1st hc/dj

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The Books in My Life MILLER, Henry . New Directions, Norfolk, Connecticut ( 1952 ) . FIRST EDITION. Very good +++ green and blue stamped cream colored cloth in a dustjacket with some small edge chips and light general wear else fully intact good +++ condition ( price still present front flap $5.00) ; frontice photo of HENRY MILLER sitting in his studio; 316 pages with " LIST OF 100 BOOKS THAT INFLUENCED ME MOST " at rear. Some of Miller favorite writers Dostoievsky, Walt Whitman, Krishnamurti Hermann Hesse, Anais Nin, Blaise Cendrars, Proust, Jean Giono, D.H. Lawrence ... also contains some autobiographical chapters childhood in Brooklyn and his recollections of the New York theatre in the early 1900s".