Author: Miller, Henry (1891-1980) [ Buchet, Guy ] [ Editions Buchet / Chastel ]
Title: A carbon of a typed-letter initialed by Henry Miller to French publisher Guy Buchet dated April 23 1972
Description: one page.. ¶ This is the carbon copy of a one-page single-side 52-line typed letter from American author Henry Miller to Guy Buchet, the co-proprietor of the French publishing house Editions Buchet / Chastel, largely concerning a French edition of "To Paint Is to Love Again". About 500 words total. Signed, in inked initials,"HM". The letter reads in part: "...The original American edition [...] has long been out of print[...] However my friend William G. Webb [...] arranged with his friend Richard Grossman of N.Y. City to republish this book but in an enlarged version; to the original text he added an equally lengthy text called 'Semblance of a Devoted Past' composed of letters to my old friend Emil Schnellock and dealing exclusivelty with painting and painters [...] These letters date from the 1930s and are of course, very, very different in every way from the text of 'To Paint [...] Unfortunately Grossman Publishers did a bad job with the colors in reproducing my water colors; they also neglected to advertise the book, for no apparent reason. At this moment a Japanese publisher[...] is bringing out the Grossman edition in Japanese, with additional water colors and we, trust, corrected color values [...] I could not send you additional water colors -- too much bother, too much risk of loss or damage, and besides, I own now very very few; my friends own the bulk of my work.[...] I didn't know you had republished the Big Sur book and Aller Retour too. Does the later sell well?...

Keywords: American Literary History, French Publishers, Literature, Literary History, Publishing, Letters, Editions Bouchet, Henry Miller,