Miller HenryABAA
67 166 résultats
WRCLIT61236Probably Big Sur CA. no date. Original watercolor on paper 19.5 x 21cm matted and framed under glass. Not examined out of mount but visible portions fine. A characteristic watercolor likely painted during the period of Miller's residence in Big Sur when he actively solicited financial assistance in exchange for his paintings to enable him to survive and continue writing ref: AN OPEN LETTER TO ALL AND SUNDRY etc etc. The dominant colors are shades of blue and black. The painting depicts a male and a female figure in a bathtub exposed from mid- chest up. Not signed by Miller but inscribed by his friend Emil White who functioned during his Big Sur residence 1944-62 as his aide/secretary in correspondence with painting customers and the public: "This was painted but not signed by H.M. E. White." unknown books
1865100350New Jersey 1865. Watercolor on paper. Watercolor on paper. West Hoboken 1865. On a peerless summer morning a small boy sets out along the Palisades for a day of fishing on the Hudson. William Rickarby Miller 1818-1893 was born in England and emigrated to America in 1844 making his home in New York City. He was noted for his landscape paintings and watercolors as well as his illustrations for books and periodicals. He was mostly occupied during the last twenty years of his life in the execution of pen and ink sketches for his project "1000 Gems of American Landscape." Provenance: Private English Collection. See Carlock "William Ricarby Miller"; and Shelley "William R. Miller Forgotten 19th Century Artist unknown books
1947323459New York: Reynal & Hitchcock 1947. First. hardcover. near fine/very good-. 83p. cloth d.w. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock 1947. First Edition.<br/> <br/> Presentation copy signed by Miller on the title page. Near fine copy despite an almost indiscernible erasure on the front free flyleaf and a small chip on the bottom edge of the dust wrapper which bears the original $2.00 price. Millers first play the winner of 2 Tony awards & basis for a 1948 film.<br/> <br/> Reynal & Hitchcock unknown
1949310226New York: Viking Press 1949. First edition Second Printing before Publication. 139 1 pp. 8vo. Cloth. Fine in unclipped dj. First edition Second Printing before Publication. 139 1 pp. 8vo. Inscribed on the title-page: "To Frank Krohn Best Arthur Miller. Viking Press unknown
19491308006Viking Press 1949. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Edition First Printing SIGNED by Arthur Miller on a tipped-in page. A beautiful First Issue dustjacket that has light wear to the spine ends and edges. This original dustjacket is vibrant in color and has the $2.50 price printed on the front flap. The book is solid. The boards are bright and sharp. The pages are clean with no writing marks or bookplates in the book. Overall a sharp clean copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION SIGNED by the author. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Viking Press hardcover
19491508045Viking Press 1949. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. A fine first edition so stated on the copyright page in a very good dust jacket signed by Arthur Miller on a tipped-in page. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Viking Press hardcover
1947324390Big Sur Calif 1947. 1-36 1 23-104pp. on onion skin paper and 2 22 pp. "Codas". 4to. Very Good in black paper folder with notes by Henry Miller on two pages. 1-36 1 23-104pp. on onion skin paper and 2 22 pp. "Codas". 4to. Henry Miller's essay on the sculptor Bufano written after his WWII return to the United States when his disillusionment with the American continent was broken only by some bright creative talents including Bufano. unknown
324733Santa Barbara: Capra 1979. 126pp. 8vo. Fine in printed wrappers. 126pp. 8vo. Miller's appreciation of his friend Afred Perles one of the Villa Seurat gang who appears as the infamous Carl in Quiet Days in Clichy.<br /> <br /> Inscribed on the ffep: "For Isaac B. Singer my beloved author along with Knut Hamsun and Blaise Cendrars. Blessings on you! Henry Miller 12/10/79". Henry Miller and Isaac B. Singer were keen admirers of each other's work going back to the 1960s when Miller wrote to Singer: "I finished Family Moskat the other night feeling as if I had lived through 500 years of Jewish history myth legend torture and humiliation. It was a real feast." He regularly referred to Singer as his favorite American writer and kept up their correspondence throughout the seventies - going so far as to petition Singer among others to write a few lines to the Academy on his behalf - the very same year that Singer himself won the Nobel. Among Singer's papers is draft of a short piece entitled "Ten Reasons I Admire Henry Miller" and he wrote to Miller in response to receiving another of his Books of Friends "I'm an ardent reader of yours and admirer. Whatever you write is human rich in individuality and love. I often envy your really altruistic and giving nature. Please continue to write your memoirs. And continue to live a long and creative life" Sept. 9 1976. <br /> <br /> A great association from two giants of American letters. Capra unknown
195623328Paris: Olympia Press 1956. First edition the rare first state with the photographs printed with a glossy finish rather than the common matte finish. Shifreen & Jackson A100a. Kearney 20. Slight crease in spine otherwise a fine copy. BRASSAI. Small 8vo original decorated wrappers designed by T. Tajiri. Slight crease in spine otherwise a fine copy. Olympia Press unknown
180169761801 Londres, William Miller, 1801. In-folio, 27 x 36 cm. Texte en anglais et en français. Edition originale illustrée de 22 aquatintes par Dadley, entièrement rehaussées à la main. Elégante reliure en maroquin rouge à longs grains. Dos à 5 nerfs plats et orné de caissons dorés. Plats décorés d'arabesques dorées encadrées de dentelles à froid et de roulettes dorées. Roulettes intérieures à motif de feuilles de vigne, gardes recouvertes de soie bleue. Tranches dorées. Ex-libris: Lord Farnham. Traces de frottements aux coiffes, aux mors et aux coins. Petite tache sur le plat supérieur. Gravures propres et fraîches. Ouvrage en très bel état, luxueusement relié et bien complet de toutes les gravures.
200191675Thoemmes Continuum. New. 2001. Hardcover. 1855068885 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 1120 pages. TWO 2 VOLUME SET. Description: "Millers 'A Brief Retrospect of the Eighteenth Century' was one of the first attempts to give a comprehensive account of the intellectual history of American thought. Encompassing a wide range of topics the 2-volume work traces in detail the developments in American science art and literature taking in comparisons with other traditions. The study includes a thorough review of the history of philosophy with discussions of Hume Berkeley Newton Kant Descartes and Malebranche among others. There are also interesting sections on American biblical scholarship on the impact of Scottish moral philosophy on enlightened America and critiques of Darwin and Priestley. " -- with a bonus offer-- . Thoemmes Continuum hardcover
1949152357New York: Viking 1949. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. A beautiful First Issue dust jacket with light wear to the spine ends and edges. This original dust jacket has the $2.50 price on the front flap intact.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 139 pages. Viking hardcover
2010C91009RNC. As New. 2010. Hardcover. 0966027329 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 462 pages. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works Life and Work Raisonnee -- with a bonus offer-- - May be EITHER: out of print OOP and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition; inquire for details . RNC hardcover
18700008029Fort Edward New York. Fair. 1870. On offer is an absolutely fascinating scrapbook that belonged to Jahu DeWitt Miller. Dated 1876 it was put together when Miller was 19 and working as a lecturer and teacher at the Fort Edward Institute in upstate New York. The book measures 7 inches by 5 and 3/4 inches. The binding on the book is broken and the pages are loose. However they are intact and contain a veritable goldmine of notes jotting etc. There are an estimated 100 pages and of these and estimated 80% are complete. Miller began his studies at age 14 at the Fort Edward Institute - a collegiate or seminary as they were known in those days. After graduating he began to teach there. He also acted as Librarian for the Seminary and was on record as a voracious reader. At the same time he began to preach at various Methodist churches in the area. He was attracted to journalism and wrote extensively. He also began a book collection that grew to a very significant size. He lectured widely across the United States for many years. In 1901 he donated his extensive rare book collection to National Park Seminary located at the time on the edge of Washington DC. Over the years NPS has changed hands several times until 1942 when it was expropriated by the US Army as a convalescent home for wounded soldiers. Today it is part of the Walter Reed Medical Center complex. Miller died of a heart attack in Boise ID in 1911. The scrapbook is chock full of notes letter cards and jottings. On many the ink has faded. Notes are stuck in willy-nilly: "Artman looks as tho he were an old bummer See his nose" ". Miller - Butler has prepared an article which she intends to deliver this morning the same going very strongly against you." On May 6th 1873 he published a printed statement of defense challenging unnamed critics of statement and articles he has written. On Institute letterhead he has received a letter addressed to himself requesting a loan of $300 from a MF Chichester. On Dec 6th 1872 he received a letter from the Office of the College Courant: "Dear Doctor - I draw to you this line as a matter of friendship. Chatfield is just on the point of failure and will probably make an assignment next week. Concerning that you have a claim against him the sooner you get it into the lawyers hands the better. I send you the name of a good one EP Arvine Church Street opposite Post Office. The sheriff is dropping in every day making attachments which are being for. The future of the Courant is doubtful; but it will probably not die. Prof Barker of Yale talks of taking it in which case I shall probably retain my connection with it. Another though just occurred to me that perhaps you could get the account of your bill more readily by ordering some of Chatfields publications Sincerely Yours RW Keufshall. There are cards referring to The Senate Society possibly one of the many debating societies extant that to which he belonged. And so the scrapbook goes. It is a veritable goldmine for a historian or researcher exploring the life and experiences of this noted American literary figure. For a social historian it is a superb window into the life of someone who travelled extensively in the literary circles of his day.; Manuscript; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF 19TH CENTURY 1870S JAHU DEWITT MILLER FORT EDWARD INSTITUTE NATIONAL PARK SEMINARY NATIONAL PARK SERVICES UPSTATE NEW YORK JOHN CASSEDY VESTA CASSEDY DR. JAMES AMENT WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER LECTURERS LIBRARIANS BOOK COLLECTORS JOURNALISTS LITERARY FIGURES SCRAPBOOKS AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS DIARY DIARIES JOURNALS PERSONAL HISTORY SOCIAL HISTORY HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO D'ANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANOSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPEL . unknown
589087-1/2 x 6 in. matted and framed in a 14-1/2 x 12 in frame. Signed "Baskin 1995" in water color.Fine condition. unknown books
19398321Paris: The Obelisk Press 1939. First Edition. First Issue with price of 60 FRS on spine and publisher's errata slip tipped in before title page - one of 1000 copies. Octavo 19.5cm; pictorial card wrappers with French flaps printed in red and black; 1011-3672pp. Inscribed by Miller on the front endpaper in a contemporary hand: "To Miola and Annie / from / Henry Miller / with best of greetings / Paris / 5/25/39." Light wear to extremities some creasing to lower edge of front wrapper base of spine internally strengthened small closed tears to upper and lower front joint with some dust-soil to rear wrapper and a dampstain to left edge of same; Very Good and sound. Housed in a custom velvet-lined half morocco clamshell case.<br /> <br /> Miller's semi-autobiographical follow-up to his 1934 novel Tropic of Cancer. His early books with contemporary inscriptions are uncommon in commerce. Shifreen & Jackson A21.a. The Obelisk Press unknown
19431249011943. First Edition. Signed. MILLER Glenn. Glenn Miller's Method for Orchestral Arranging. New York: Mutual Music Society 1943. Quarto original gilt-stamped red cloth. Housed in custom half morocco clamshell box. $3800.First edition inscribed by the composer on the front free endpaper Sincerely Glenn Miller extremely scarce signed.In a patriotic gesture in the fall of 1942 Glenn Miller disbanded his group to join the army. His mysterious deathhe boarded a plane to Paris on December 15 1944 and was never seen againonly added to his legend. This work on Miller's style of arranging includes sections on saxophone trumpet trombone brass and rhythm. With an Instrument Chart and 29 musical examples including the piano-vocal score to the song ""I'm Thrilled."" Given his untimely death Miller's signature is exceptionally scarce. Without two inserts of facsimile scores for ""I'm Thrilled"" and ""Song of the Volga Boatmen."" Without the two scores ""I'm Thrilled"" and ""Song of the Volga Boatmen"" that were laid in by the publisher. Two ink notations to front free endpaper.Miller's signature bold and clear. Some light wear to original cloth. Handsomely boxed. hardcover
1895140943136St. Paul MN: R. C. Miller 1895. First Edition. Very Good. First edition of this very early and scarce cocktail guide. Bound in publisher's brown cloth stamped in black over semi-flexible boards. Very Good with fraying soiling light staining and wear to covers. Pages toned ink notation to contents page the first two leaves are partially cracked at the hinge and fragile occasional creased corners. R. C. Miller unknown
18031199961803. MILLER William. The Costume of the Russian Empire Illustrated by a Series of Seventy-Three Engravings with Descriptions in English and French. London: William Miller 1803 i.e. London: J. Stockdale 1811. Folio 10-1/2 by 14 inches contemporary full maroon straight-grained morocco gilt rebacked with elaborately gilt-decorated spine laid down raised bands all edges gilt. $3800.Early 19th-century re-issue by John Stockdale with 73 brightly hand-colored stipple-engraved plates by J. Dadley.Costume of the Russian Empire was one of a series of six costume books published by William Miller over a four-year period. Other volumes in the series featured the costumes of Turkey Austria China two volumes and Great Britain see Abbey Travel 533. The plates for this edition were copied from a series of engravings begun at Petersburg in 1776 and finished in 1779 under the care and at the expense of C.W. Müller for J.G. Georgi's work Beschreibung ""at the request of the late empress."" Text in English and French with a separate title-page in each language. The popularity of Miller's books created a demand for successive re-publications though the title-page of this copy states 1803 the year of the first edition this is actually a re-issue with the French title page dated 1811 and watermarks dated 1811 text and 1817 plates. Abbey Travel 244. Colas 702. Hiler 192. Lowndes 530. Evidence of bookplate removal.Only occasional patches of foxing and faint offsetting of plates to text. Light expert restoration to extremities of contemporary morocco binding. A near-fine copy. hardcover
59-1193Oakland Calif. ca. 1930s. Original watercolor by Doris Miller Johnson 1907-2001. Image size: 265 x 353 mm. Signed: "Doris Miller April 1935." Exhibited at Pals Club Tea Hotel Senator Sacramento April 21 1937. From the personal collection of the artist. Oakland, Calif., ca. 1930s. unknown
1947155698New York: Reynal and Hitchcock 1947. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Arthur Miller on the title page: "For Bryan Sheahy / Arthur Miller." <br /> <br /> The author's first play after writing a novel and a nonfiction book winner of two Tony Awards for Best Author and Best Director and basis for the 1948 film noir starring Burt Lancaster and Edward G. Robinson. <br /> <br /> Very Good plus in a Very Good or better dust jacket. Boards lightly rubbed with offsetting and faint soil on the endpapers. Jacket has small chips on the spine ends and corners with a lightly toned rear panel. Reynal and Hitchcock unknown
1950160284New York: W. Eugene Smith 1950. Five vintage oversize borderless photographs taken during the original 1949-1950 Broadway production of Arthur Miller's 1949 play. All photographs bear catalog stamps and credit stamps of noted photographer W. Eugene Smith on the versos.<br /> <br /> The production made its debut on February 10 1949 at the Morosco Theatre and ran for 742 performances closing on November 18 1950. Winner of the Tony Awards for Best Play Best Supporting Actor Best Author and Best Director as well as the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play has since been revived on Broadway five times in 1975 1984 1999 2012 and 2022 and has been adapted for the screen ten times including the Academy Award-nominated 1951 film directed by Laslo Benedik starring Fredric March and Mildred Dunnock.<br /> <br /> Described by critic Sean O'Hagan in a 2017 article in "The Guardian" as "perhaps the single most important American photographer in the development of the editorial photo essay" W. Eugene Smith's innovation integrity and technical mastery made his work the standard by which photojournalism is measured. The W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund was established in 1979 a year after his death to promote and support photographers whose work explores matters of global importance for humanitarian purposes.<br /> <br /> 10.5 x 12.25 inches to 10.5 x 13.5 inches. About Near Fine with light edgewear and two with small vertical creases to the bottom right corner. W. Eugene Smith unknown
19444458New York: Reynal & Hitchcock 1944. First Edition. Attractive copy of the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright's first book based on his experiences researching the war correspondence of journalist Ernie Pyle. The title derives from the widely-used military acronym slang "SNAFU" Situation Normal: All Fucked Up which translates to a bad situation that is a normal state of affairs. Miller was tasked by Hollywood to gather material for "an honest movie" about American GI's during the war about their training daily life their hopes dreams and why they are fighting. Miller visited several Army camps training living and interviewing soldiers and taking down the unvarnished truth of his discoveries. "I was the person fate picked out of Brooklyn to go among the soldiers and pick up enough facts honest-to-God true facts to make a soldier picture which soldiers could sit through until the end without once laughing in derision. A picture that would properly end all soldier pictures" p.1. The film in question was William A. Wellman's The Story of G.I. Joe to be adapted by Miller for Lester Cowan from Pyle's 1943 book This Is Your War. Miller's version was ultimately not produced likely due to ideological differences and his communist sympathies. The typescript written the year before Situation Normal was published summarizes the conception of the book detailing his early meetings with Ernie Pyle over how his work would be translated into film and what they wanted to accomplish. "I bring up the idea that it would be a shame to show this massive canvas without reducing what is chaos to at least an inkling of purpose and order and of course he agrees. But we both feel that to lard on ideology where there is no ideology would be to wrap the truth. You can't have soldiers talking about four freedoms when all they want is to go home. Myself I curse the press and the million textbooks that turn out the billions of words and never add up to an excuse for dying" typescript p.5. A superlative copy of an important debut. Crandell A1. First Printing. Octavo 21.25cm; yellow cloth with titles stamped in black and red on spine and front cover; dustjacket; x1793pp. Signed by Miller in blue ball-point pen on the title page. Spine ends gently nudged some trivial wear to lower board edges with a hint of sunning to upper board edges and a faint shallow stain to lower edge of rear cover; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $2.00 with two tiny tears at crown and a faint vertical crease along left joint; a bright very Near Fine example. Laid into this copy is an untitled seven-page carbon typescript on onionskin 8" x 10.5" written by Miller in 1943 relating details about the book's conception; horizontal fold at center staple holes at upper left corner with two neat punctures along left margin; Very Good. Reynal & Hitchcock unknown
19387289Paris: The Obelisk Press 1938. First Edition. First Impression one of 1000 copies. Octavo 21.5cm; original decorative wrappers with French flaps; 1112-3244pp. Inscribed by Miller on the half-title page to his physician Jim O'Roark: "For Jim O'Roark / a great reader and a great physician! / Henry Miller / 7/30/77." Housed in a custom quarter morocco slipcase and chemise. The tiny printed ownership label of bibliophile and Black Sparrow Press publisher John K. Martin is mounted on the verso of the rear wrapper. There is the most subtle degree of toning to wrappers light wear to extremities with a few tiny tears and creases along the lower edge; contents fresh with the remnants of the publisher's printed wraparound band laid in "Cannot be bought in England and U.S.A. - A magnificent new book by the author of Tropic of Cancer"; very Near Fine housed in a custom half-morocco slipcase and chemise.<br /> <br /> Miller's first book of short fiction and the second volume in the publisher's Villa Seurat series. The collection gathers 12 works including "The Cosmological Eye" "Scenario" "Max" "The Eye of Paris" and "An Open Letter to Surrealists Everywhere." O'Roark was Miller's opthalmologist a friend and long-time correspondant whose comprehensive collection of Miller's work was first offered by Joseph the Provider in 1982. An exceedingly well-preserved copy. Shifreen & Jackson A19a. The Obelisk Press unknown
19383924Paris: Booster Publications 1938. First Edition. A pair of distinguished copies inscribed to Huntington Cairns a young Baltimore lawyer who in September 1934 was appointed official U.S. Censor by the Secretary of the Treasury. It was Cairns who declared Miller's 1934 novel Tropic of Cancer and subsequently Black Spring Tropic of Capricorn and The Rosy Crucifixion obscene based on the laws of the day despite his admiration for Miller as an author and artist. His decision led to a 25-year correspondence and friendship between censor and author. In Money Miller offers his "meditations and lucubrations" on the subject - the direct result of receiving a postcard from Ezra Pound who asked him "if he had ever thought of money what makes it and how it gets that way. The truth is that until Mr. Pound put the question to me I had never really thought about the subject. Since then however I have thought about it night and day" from the foreword. The proof copy printed on paperstock a notch above newsprint is a marvelous survival not mentioned by the bibliographers or found in the auction record. Shifreen & Jackson A18a. One of 495 copies. Octavo 18.5cm; thick black wrappers with titles printed in gold on spine and front cover; 89-64pp. Inscribed by Miller one month after publication on the first half-title page: "To Huntington Cairns / Money money money / with greetings / Henry Miller / Paris 10/38." Faint crease to lower right corner of front wrapper else a Fine unopened copy. <br /> <br /> Offered together with an uncorrected proof copy New York: Marion Saunders n.d. but 1937. Octavo 17.75cm; side-stapled sheets rectos bound into printed wrappers; ii67-62pp. Inscribed by Miller on the front wrapper nine months prior to publication: "Proof Copy uncorrected / For Huntington Cairns / a little memento from the works Paris / Yours Henry Miller / 12/31/37." Publisher's imprint crossed-out by Miller on lower front wrapper; reviewer's rubber-stamp in French to half-title page; wrappers detached but present toned and edgeworn with two stains to front cover; text edges a bit toned; complete; Good to Very Good. Booster Publications unknown
