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1935355490713503Paris: Obelisk 1935. This is the Reprint from September 1935 the book was first published in September 1934. A softcover issued in plain wrappers without a D/W. A VG copy. Second Printing of Miller's first and most famous novel. This printing consisted of 500 copies; with most of the first printing confiscated by the censors. Precedes all American first editions. Shifreen & Jackson A9B. Uncommon Obelisk paperback
1934355490714078Paris: Obelisk 1934. First Edition. Paris: Obelisk Press 1934. First Edition. Rebound in near contemporary red cloth with no lettering to indicate the title of the book. Ownership name in ink to both the front and rear end-papers. Original printed front and rear wrappers featuring a giant crab holding a naked woman in its pincers designed by Maurice J. Kahan bound in wrappers torn and relaid with the inner flaps pasted down. The original spine of the book is missing. Now hailed as an American classic the author's masterpiece was banned as obscene in the United States for 27 years. One of only a 1000 copies and genuinely rare. This is the true First Edition of this title with First Published September 1934 on the copyright page Obelisk hardcover
1938041640Belgium 1938. Second Edition. Softcover. The Second Printing of Miller's pamphlet originally distributed free in 1935 with an added foreword. A humorous pamphlet ostensibly to raise money to retire Alfred Perles to Ibiza. Lacking the front wrapper but with the rear and very good otherwise. Size: 16mo . Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Inventory No: 041640. unknown
1944112512009Bern Porter 1944-01-01. Hardcover. First Edition. Bern Porter: Berkeley 1944. Third edition and the first American edition. The binding is stapled wrappers in printed dustwrapper. One of 738 copies printed with the offending censored words hand blacked over. In this copy there are 15 words blacked out. The condition is very good in a sturdy binding. There is some sunning to spine area but is very faint. Bern Porter hardcover
1938013640London: The C. W. Daniel Company 1938. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Includes first appearance of Henry Miller's essay "Creative Death" a fragment from Miller's unfinished book on D. H. Lawrence which was published in book form in 1941 as part of Miller's anthology of short stories "From The Wisdom of the Heart public library. Another item of note in this issue is TS Eliot essay "On a Recent Piece of Criticsm" wherein Eliot takes on criticism of Ezra Pound. Spine rolled covers and leaves toned. The C. W. Daniel Company unknown