HENRY MILLER Watercolors, Drawings, and His Essay The Angel Is My Watermark

First Edition, A RARE SIGNED, DATED AND INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPY from Henry Miller to a close associate, Oliver Evans. The inscription is meaningful and warm. The copy at one time also owned by Zeitlin & Ver Brugge. With twelve impressive colour plates ingeniously mounted on either stiff white or black paper in a manner such that they can be removed from the book for display or framing and then later reinserted with no damage to either the mounting or the plates. Additionally illustrated with four drawings or watercolours reproduced in back and white, three full page black and white photographs and two half-page black and white photographs. Folio, in the publishers white buckram backed in black, the upper cover with a large colourplate pastedown, the spine lettered in gilt, in the original clear mylar dustjacket with printing in black on the upper cover, the rear cover has a pocket originally for two empty slip-in frames for protecting plates if removed from the book for inspection that is empty as often found. 39, [2] pp., plus plates. Internally this is a very fine author inscribed copy, the pages are all spotless and the plates are all in perfect order. Miller's inscription to Evans is dark and rich in blue ink on the title-page, dated and very legible. The binding solid, the white cloth with some spotting due to the glue used in production, mostly along the top edge and not effecting the large pastedown, the spine mellowed a bit at the tips. The old clear plastic jacket with wear and with some wrinkling and repairs to closed tears with clear tape in several areas. Now with a second clear jacket provided for security.