The Happy Rock A Book about Henry Miller. by Miller, Henry; Lawrence Durrell - 1945

E-014: Bern Porter. Very Good. 1945. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Printed for Bern Porter by the Packard Press, Berkeley, CA. 1945. 157 pgs. Cover illustration by Leger, and frontispiece by Abraham Rattner. Printed on multi-colored paper. Lawrence Durell's Copy with his signed bookplate present to the reverse of the front board and Henry Miller's signed bookplate present to the half-title page. Copy #1 of the second issue of 2250 copies. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in 1/4 and paper covered boards with paper label present to the front board. Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards clean with no wear present. Includes 2 Miller contributions, plus essays by Lawrence Durrell, Wallace Fowlie, Kenneth Patchen, Paul Rosenfeld, and others; publisher's biographical chronology and bibliography. Also noteworthy for contributions by artists Ferdnand Leger and Abraham Rattner. EB; 10.3 X 7.1 X 0.7 inches; 157 pages .