Unbound as issued (most sheets 14 3/4 x 11 in.; 374 x 279mm.  Bifolium frontispiece titled "Into the Night Life" (illustration and calligraphic text) by Henry Miller and Bezalel Schatz, enclosed in glassine wrapper with red and black calligraphic text, 11 reproductions of paintings and photographs by Man Ray, Max Ernst, Modigiliani, and others; 1-in. chip in an upper corner of the glassine, some light soiling in upper and lower margins of title leaf.  Heavy grey portfolio printed in blue; extrimities browned, some wear, ink mark at lower margin of front cover.

Minkoff A-51

Condition as described in catalogue
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One of 200 special copies with the Henry Miller and Bezalel Schatz frontispiece, signed by them both.  Miller's phrase "Coney Island of the Mind," later put to profitable use by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, first appears in this text: "The one and only life is the night life, the life of the mind …. this is the Coney Island of the Mind, the Toboggan Slide, the Into the Into …."

Ohter contributors include Charles Ol🔴son, Anaïs Nin, Albert Cossery, Harry T. Moore, and others.