![]() ![]() With a picture of Miller’s parents laid in. ![]() After graduating in 1932 from Abraham Lincoln High School, Miller worked several jobs in order to pay for his college tuition at the University of Michigan where he would major in journalism. In the Wall Street Crash of 1929, the Millers lost almost everything and were forced to move to Gravesend, Brooklyn where, as a teenager, Miller delivered bread every morning before school to help with their finances. Miller’s father, Isidore, owned a women’s clothing manufacturing business which employed over 400 people and the family lived on West 110th Street in Manhattan, owned a summer house in Far Rockaway, Queens, and employed a chauffeur. His father was born in Radomyśl Wielki, Galicia (then part of Austria-Hungary, now Poland), and his mother was a native of New York whose parents had immigrated from the same town. Association copy, inscribed by Arthur Miller on the front free endpaper to his mother and father, “To Mother & Dad With my love Arthur.” Arthur Miller was the second of three children of Augusta (Barnett) and Isidore Miller. Octavo, original half cloth over patterned boards, top edge red. $25,000.00 Item Number: 140347įirst edition of Miller’s Tony Award-winning play, a bitter satire inspired by the heightened political repression and persecution of left-wing individuals during the McCarthy era. ![]()
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