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MILLER, ARTHUR & INGE MORATH (PHOTOGRAPHS), Salesman in Beijing [and:] Timebends, A Life.
New York: Viking Press / Grove Press, 1984, 1987. First editions. .. ¶ Salesman in Beijing. New York: Viking Press, 1984. Paper-covered boards, cloth backstrip stamped in black and gilt; in illustrated dust jacket. First Edition. Inscribed on the half-title: "To Louis Auchincloss, intimate of the unsaintly Saint Simon whose impassioned percipience he celebrates and shares -- this little chronicle of striving in a poor country. / Arthur Miller / April, 1984." Auchincloss has added, in pencil: "See p. 249. Inge Miller told me that she read aloud to AM from 'The Cat and the King' after they went to bed in the month of rehearsals! Probably to put him to sleep -- LA." Also includes a card with a b/w photograph of Inge printed on the front, thanking Auchincloss for his kind words upon her death. Book is fine. Dust jacket a little sunned along spine, and very lightly rubbed at extremities; looks great in mylar Timebends: A Life. New York: Grove Press, 1987. Cloth-backed paper over boards; in illustrated dust jacket. First Edition. Inscribed by Miller to Louis Auchincloss. With numerous personal additions by Auchincloss: 2 b/w photographs adhered to the paste-downs (both from an evening at the National Arts Club award ceremony in 1992, which Auchincloss hosted), and a full-color 5-by-7-inch snapshot taken in Russia, of Auchincloss, Miller, and the playwright Charles Fuller, neatly affixed to front flyleaf. The front cover of the paperback edition is adhered to the FFEP. Book is very gently rubbed at spine tips, else fine. Dust jacket a little sunned along spine, else fine, in mylar. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Offered for US$ 850.00 by: James Cummins Bookseller - Book number: 252916