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Item Details

Description

Book: Black Spring

Author: Henry Miller

Edition: First Edition

Publisher: Paris: Obelisk Press

Date: 1938

First Edition, Second Printing

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Condition

Original gray wrappers, edges irregularly cut, bound in beige cloth boards, with spine stamped in red. The boards are Fine the original wrappers are Very Good to Fine, with the usual browning of contents and a mild crease to some pages.