Miller, Henry, and Michael Fraenkel. Hamlet - Volume II. Carrefour, New York, 1941.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: [some external soiling, diagonal crease at bottom right corner of front cover, spine a little browned with minor tears at spine extremities (binding still solid), vintage bookseller's label (Larry Edmund's [sic] Book Shop, Hollywood) on rear pastedown; NOTE that numerous leaves in this copy are unopened at the top edges]. Volume II only (the first volume having been published in 1939), containing the texts of 17 lengthy letters exchanged between Miller and Fraenkel between July 1936 and October 1938. On the rear endpaper is stated: Printed in Mexico. NOTE that numerous leaves in this volume are unopened at the top edges.

Seller: ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.

MILLER, Henry and MIchael Fraenkel. Hamlet. Volume II. Carrefour Editions, New York, 1941.

Price: US$220.00 + shipping

Description: First printing. Octavo. Printed thick-paper wrappers; 465pp. Mild soil; spine panel slightly toned (but perfectly legible); a tight, straight, Very Good copy. The second collection of Miller's and Fraenkel's volumnious literary correspondence; the first volume was published in 1939. Carrefour Editions, a joint effort by Fraenkel and Walter Lowenfels, was founded in Paris in 1930 primarily in order to publish their own work and that of their friends among the bohemian American expatriates of Paris. This is one of the last books of the press (though the imprint was revived by Fraenkel's daughter Daphne in 1960). Fraenkel was the model for the character of "Boris," an expatriate poet, in Miller's Tropic of Cancer.

Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.