MILLER, HENRY. THE AIR-CONDITIONED NIGHTMARE. 8vo, original cloth; dust jacket, chipped at ends of spine panel, with a tear, a little

tape stained from reinforcement on verso. (New York): New Directions, (1945) FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, with photos tipped in. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY MILLER on title, "For Bill Targ/Henry Miller 11/9/72." Laid in --Autograph Letter Signed, to Dick, in which he answers a number of interesting questions: "To answer to your queries. 1.) Believe Nancy Durrell paid for Siana Series. Yes, I paid for Aller Retour NY, believe it or not...Don't know what it says on 1st edition of Cancer --lost mine. But what you say sounds right. (Cover will tell --was young Kahane's work.) Doubt a first edition is worth what you think, though...I'm only trying to write -- interruptions never cease. On Book 2. of "Nexus." No, I didnt" remarry -- why?...Dont" believe all you read or hear about me. My fight is a constant one --for peace, privacy, time to do my own work. Hence this scrawl. My best, Henry." One page, 4to. Np, 8 March 1963.