London: Village Press, 1973

Five items, two of 24pp, one of 16pp, two of 8pp. Stiff paper wrappers, printed in black. Small previous ownership signature ('BROLL') to the first leaf of each volume, otherwise a near fine set.

First editions thus.

First published by Bern Porter in The Happy Rock [1945], these five essays describing Henry Miller's life in Paris are written by those who knew him at the time: Just A Brooklyn Boy by Emil Schnellock; The Happy Rockby Lawrence Durrell; Henry Miller In Villa Seurat by Alfred Perlès; All The Animals In The Zoo by Knud Merrild; and The Genesis Of The Tropic Of Cancer by Michael Frankel. They were published separately for the first time in 1973 by the Village Press, on a variety of coloured papers, and each front panel illustrated with a water colour by Miller.