Miller, ArthurBiblio.com
67 167 résultats
19491309019Viking Press 1949. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. A good to very good first edition in a very good first issue dust jacket signed by the author Arthur Miller on a tipped-in page. Bottom edge worn with board showing in some spots. Housed in a custom-made slipcase. Viking Press hardcover
1993240432New York: Privately Printed by W. Thomas Taylor. The Anglers' Club of New York 1993. First edition deluxe issue no. 41 of 48 copies printed on Arches paper signed by the contributors with an original leaf of typescript tipped in. Frontispiece portrait from photograph. 169 3 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Full dark blue morocco gray spine label titled in silver. As new in cloth folding box. First edition deluxe issue no. 41 of 48 copies printed on Arches paper signed by the contributors with an original leaf of typescript tipped in. Frontispiece portrait from photograph. 169 3 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Superbly produced posthumous volume in tribute to Alfred Miller best known through his pseudonym Sparse Gray Hackle. An outstanding selection of his writings with a biographical essay by Francis and appreciations by his daughter and Nick Lyons.<br /> <br /> Rare on the market in this state a clothbound edition of 300 was also produced. Privately Printed [by W. Thomas Taylor]. The Anglers' Club of New York unknown
19334341New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1933. First Edition First Printing. First Edition First Printing with "FIRST EDITION" stated on the copyright page. Measuring approximately 7.75" x 5.25" with 345 numbered pages. <br /> <br /> This book is in good condition. Moderate surface wear and staining to the boards. Front hinge cracked exposing mesh. Book is slightly cocked causing overbite. Rear hinge is detached from binding. Previous owner's signature on the front endpaper. <br /> <br /> The story of a poor white woman growing to maturity in the pre-Civil War rural south. The personal and extended family struggles and ups and downs of day-to-day living in the rural culture. <br /> <br /> Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books.<br /> <br /> Inventory #M7-3. Harper & Brothers Publishers unknown
7378California 1905-1935. 4to 11.5" x 9.25" pebbled blue paper over boards embossed gold design on front cover cord ties at spine. 57 real photo postcards 3.5" x 4.5" 52 mounted and 5 unattached; plus 1 unattached color photomechanical pc; most images titled in negative. CONDITION: Very good strong tonality light wear to photos; occasional chipping and small losses at edges. <p>An evocative album documenting the Northern California lumbering industry in the early 20th century.</p> <br /> <br /> <p>Comprising images by at least eight identified photographers this album begins with a range of photos of lumberjacks posing in front of massive felled or soon-to-be felled Redwood trees in Humboldt County. Images show the transportation of lumber the process of cutting the trees and the loading of logs into a river. A series of images picture a visit to the Stump House in Eureka-a fifty-foot long home carved from a redwood log that welcomed visitors and had a gift shop. Photos taken in Weed show the town from an elevated view Mount Shasta seen from several different vantage points stores hotels and the Weed Lumber Company its mill and mill pond. Photos taken in Scotia picture street scenes Scotia's monorail trout fishing an aerial view of Pacific Lumber Company's massive lumber factory a Redwood log on a log slip and "unloading the logs into the mill pond." Several images document the Redwood forests in Bull Creek Flat one image showing a burl. A number of images picture forests and trees in Carson Woods in Fortuna and one color postcard shows two men "cutting down big Redwoods in Humboldt County California." An image by R. E. Stinson shows Mt. Lassen's Eruption on 22 August 1914. Other images show Susanville "from the air"; Yreka Inn in Yreka; Shamrock Auto Court on Highway 99 near Yreka advertising modern cabins and running water; the town of Weott; and a street scene on the State Highway in Yreka.</p> <br /> <br /> <p>A substantial representation of the early twentieth century lumbering scene in northern California.</p> California, 1905-1935 unknown
197654177Santa Barbara: Capra Press 1976. First edition. LETTER "F" OF ONLY 26 SIGNED LETTERED COPIES WITH ORIGINAL SIGNED DRAWING TIPPED IN. There were an additional 224 signed numbered copies issued without the drawing. 8vo full black leather stamped in silver at spine. Foreword by Miller; illustrated with photographs by Jim Lazarus and drawings by Miller. Fine in original acetate with one chip from back and original red cloth slipcase showing only a touch of minor wear. Capra Press unknown books
19491503631Viking Press 1949. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. A near fine first edition in a very good dust jacket signed by Arthur Miller of a tipped-in page. First edition indicated on the copyright page Published by the Viking Press in March 1949. Lending Library stamp on front free endpaper but no other library signs in the book. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Viking Press hardcover books
1956299910Paris: Olympia Press 1956. First. paperback. fine. Photographs by Brassai. Small 8vo stiff pictorial wrappers printed in gray yellow white and black. Paris: Olympia Press 1956. First Edition. Fine in cloth slipcase.<br/><br/> Unobtrusive vertical crease on spine from opening this stiffly bound book. First printing with photos in matte finish. Shifreen & Jackson A100a.<br/><br/> Olympia Press unknown books
194153844San Francisco: The Colt Press 1941. First edition. This non-pornographic piece must have disappointed publishers anticipating something more lurid from Miller after his "Tropic of Cancer" because ten New York publishers rejected it before Colt Press accepted it with an advance of only 100 USD Shifreen & Jackson A26b. INSCRIBED -- "TO TAMAR THE FLAMING MEDEA OF BIG SUR WHO IMPROVISES 'UNITS' AND ISLANDS OF FOG AND SEA ANEMONES. HENRY MILLER. 4/2/44." The recipient is perhaps Robinson Jeffers who though not a friend of Miller's was a fellow inhabitant of Big Sur and whose most famous poem is titled "Tamar." Or more likely though a bit disturbingly it is perhaps inscribed to Tamar Nais Hodel who was named for the poem and was the young daughter of Miller's friend and fellow inhabitant of Big Sur Dr. George Hill Hodel -- a suspect in the infamous 1947 "Black Dahlia" murder and mutilation of Elizabeth Short. Tamar Hodel would have been around 9 years old at the time of the inscription a tender young age to receive an inscribed book from a friend of ones father. But this was a father who allowed Man Ray to take nude pictures of her when she was 11 years old and whom she accused at 14 of sexual molesting her beginning when she was 11. He was acquitted and fled the country soon after. Name at base of front endpaper cloth at spine ends and corners slightly frayed general light cover wear front hinge repaired where previously loose otherwise good to very good lacking dust jacket. MYSTERIOUS INSCRIPTION The Colt Press unknown books
1947533166New York: Reynal & Hitchcock 1947. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition first printing. Moderate overall soiling on the boards very good in very good dust jacket with three internally repaired tears and a little light wear at the crown. Signed by Miller. Miller's first play after a novel and a nonfiction book and the basis for the 1948 film noir starring Burt Lancaster and Edward G. Robinson. Scarce title. Reynal & Hitchcock hardcover
1947396726New York: Reynal & Hitchcock 1947. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Celery cloth boards also issued in gray cloth no priority. Fine with some expert restoration at the extremities of the dust jacket but which is otherwise fine. Miller's first play after a novel and a nonfiction book and the basis for the 1948 film noir starring Burt Lancaster and Edward G. Robinson. Scarce title. Reynal & Hitchcock hardcover
1949453756New York: Viking Press 1949. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. First edition. Dampstain along the top of the rear board a little faint soiling on the foredge a good copy in about very good first issue dust jacket with corresponding stain on the rear panel. Signed by Arthur Miller. A presentable copy of this Pulitzer Prize-winning play one of the classics of American drama and basis for a number of film and television versions with Fredric March Lee J. Cobb Rod Steiger Dustin Hoffman and Brian Dennehy among others assaying the role of salesman Willy Loman. Viking Press hardcover
19492305115Viking Press 1949. first. hardcover. near fine/very good. SIGNED first edition Published by the Viking Press Inc. in March 1949 stated on copyright page. Signed by author on tipped-in page. Book near fine water stain to bottom of front and rear covers and spine. Dust jacket very good some wear and rubbing some foxing to inside dj water stain and discoloration to bottom of inside dj. Viking Press unknown
19491503631Viking Press 1949. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. A near fine first edition in a very good dust jacket signed by Arthur Miller of a tipped-in page. First edition indicated on the copyright page Published by the Viking Press in March 1949. Lending Library stamp on front free endpaper but no other library signs in the book. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Viking Press hardcover
19663246271966. Softcover. Fine. Typewritten manuscript. 21pp. Single typed sheets rectos only ribbon copy secured with a paperclip and a few specks of oxidation transferred to the front and rear wrap and the sticker of Miller's literary agency on the bottom edge of the first sheet fine. A short story of a son learning from his father that getting involved is more important than pretending that nothing matters. Originally published in the August 13 1966 issue of The Saturday Evening Post and included in Miller's book of short stories I Don't Need You Anymore published the following year. unknown
19532402026New York: Viking Press 1953. First. hardcover. Fine/Near fine. A fine first edition in a near fine dust jacket signed by Arthur Miller on a tipped in page. Previous owner's name and address written on front free endpaper. Viking Press unknown
131133826New York: Viking Press 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 20x20x20. Signed by Author. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Stated "First published by the Viking Press in April 1953" on copyright page. Signed by Arthur Mille ron the front free endpaper. Blue cloth with black lettering. Very Good spine a little sunned dampstain along bottom of front board name written on front free endpaper. In an About Good dust jacket rubbed along edges chip to front panel near head dampstaining along bottom edge price-clipped. The acclaimed play. Viking Press hardcover
1953138592New York: The Viking Press 1953. First edition early printing of this central work in the canon of American drama. Octavo original half cloth. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the title page "To Gerald Kramer Arthur Miller." Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Gjon Mili. Uncommon signed. The Crucible has been adapted for film television and opera. French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre adapted it as the 1958 film Les Sorcières de Salem and later Miller himself adapted the play as the 1996 film The Crucible. The latter including in its cast Paul Scofield Daniel Day-Lewis and Winona Ryder and it earned Miller his only nomination for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay. On television the play has aired in 1968 and 2006. Finally the play was adapted by composer Robert Ward into an opera in 1961 for which it received the Pulitzer Prize. The Viking Press hardcover
19303248621930. 6 1/4 x 4 inches; 12 x 10 inches framed. Framed. 6 1/4 x 4 inches; 12 x 10 inches framed. Signed and dated by Miller on verso that this is a 1950 photograph by an unknown photographer "possibly Man Ray." This is likely wishful dating on Miller's part judging by his age in the photograph it was probably taken during his days in Paris. Another hand has put down 1942 as a likely date. It's dated as such with photographer listed as unknown in The Life of Henry Miller by Jay Martin Capra Press 1978. 1942 was when Miller had to leave Greece and settled in California where he met Man Ray another American expatriate returned by the war. There are no known Man Ray portraits of Miller in which Miller is seated. unknown
1956299910Paris: Olympia Press 1956. First. paperback. fine. Photographs by Brassai. Small 8vo stiff pictorial wrappers printed in gray yellow white and black. Paris: Olympia Press 1956. First Edition. Fine in cloth slipcase.<br/> <br/> Unobtrusive vertical crease on spine from opening this stiffly bound book. First printing with photos in matte finish. Shifreen & Jackson A100a.<br/> <br/> Olympia Press unknown
33963New Haven: Mathieu October 6 1978 1978. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Signed by Bert Mathieu. Miller Henry Bert Mathieu SUPERB 4 PAGE ALS FROM BERT MATHIEU WITH PHOTOS OF DURRELL TEMPLE & MATHIEU October 6 1978. Superb 4 page Als from Miller's friend & translator of Miller & Rimbaud Bert Mathieu 6 October 1978. Very Chatty. In part. <br /> "Dear Henry / There must be a great rejoicing in your house this week after the announcement that the Nobel Prize had gone to Bashevis Singer! If they haven't got the guts to give it to Henry Miller the least they can do is give it to a writer whom you warmly admire. I'll never forget the story you told me last year about Singer's response when you told him of your admiration for Knut Hamsun. All three of you are giants of course. And I'm convinced that you will also get the Nobel. It's only fitting that all three of you should have it. "All you have to do is live long enough". . . Larry Durrell joined us all in writing to the Nobel Committee as you had recommended but he seemed to think you were far above such awards! As far as he was concerned and I'm with him 100%. Giving Henry Miller the Nobel Prize is like presuming to offer the Nobel Prize to Homer to Dante to Dostoevsky to Whitman Such writers don't need it." Besides as Larry quickly added "Henry awarded himself the Nobel Prize years ago at the Villa Surat." / What a trip I had in the south of France! The visit to Larry's was the high point. . . As you predicted. . . We spent many hours talking about everything from sex to the Tao Te Ching from wine to Nietzsches Sils Maria. . . I'm sending you a couple of photos to give you an idea of the warmth of the visit. / Bert". Three 3" x 5" colour photos enclosed of Durrell F.J. Temple & Bert with snappy captions by Bert on the verso: 1 - "Henry / Do you recognize F. J. Temple on the right He was living with a beautiful young woman on the second floor at Durrell's" 2 "Sommieres July 30 1978 / This photo was taken on the day of my departure. We had hit it off and had been having some good talk. Here we're all a bit subdued" 3 - "Larry playing the clown! Every time the camera appeared he would be magically transformed into a buffoon. What a man!" With original mailing envelope on which Miller has written "File". <br /> <br /> Frederic-Jacques Temple was born in Montpellier in 1921 where he still resides. Ami et biographe d'Henry Miller compagnon de voyages et d'écriture de Blaise Cendrars de Lawrence Durrell ou de Joseph Delteil FJ Temple est à la fois essayiste poète et romancier. Friend and biographer of Henry Miller companion travel and writing by Blaise Cendrars Lawrence Durrell or Joseph Delteil FJ Temple is both an essayist poet and novelist. Provenance: PBA /The Personal Archive of Henry Miller Part I Fine Modern Literature Thursday June 26 1997. Original Autographed Letters & Documents. Mathieu, October 6, 1978 unknown
19612206055Grove Press 1961. first. hardcover. near fine/very good. INSCRIBED first printing as stated on copyright page. Inscription on front free end paper. Book near fine upper right corner slightly bumped on front cover top of spine slightly bent tiny spot on foredge. Dust jacket very good some wear. Housed in a supplied slipcase. Grove Press unknown
18770205961877. Manuscript. Several small ink stains not affecting the text a few short tears the second page split along the fold about halfway. Good. Two 7-3/4" x 11-1/2" ruled sheets written on rectos only of an original poem by Miller consisting of 5 nine-line stanzas completely in Miller's hand and SIGNED by him at the conclusion. First published in the January 1877 issue of THE GALAXY the poem begins: "O Titan soul ascend your starry steep/On golden stair to gods and storied men!/Ascend! nor care where thy traducers creep/For what may well be said of prophets when/A world that's wicked comes to call them good./Ascend and sing! As kings of thought who stood/On stormy heights and held far lights to men/Stand thou and shout above the tumbled roar/Lest brave ships drive and break against the shore./What though thy sounding song be roughly set/Parnassus' Self is rough." One word is added and one entire line is crossed out. This poem was found among the papers of journalist William Conant Church and has an annotation by him on the verso of one page. Church was the publisher of THE GALAXY and this manuscript is likely the one sent for publication. In an entry in his journal dated 1 August 1871 John Burroughs recorded Whitman's fondness for Miller's poetry Barrus Clara: WHITMAN AND BURROUGHS --COMRADES page 60. Whitman met Miller for the first time in 1872 writing of a visit with Miller in a letter to Charles W. Eldridge. <br/><br/>The "Poet of the Sierras" also known as the Buffalo Bill of American literature and sometimes considered to be a Western version of Walt Whitman Joaquin Miller the pen name of Cincinnatus Heine Miller was indeed one of the more colorful authors of the late 19th century known for fabricating many features of life. While still a boy he headed from Oregon to California during the early gold rush where he worked in a number of mining camps. He survived several battles with Indians as well as several altercations with the law. He earned his keep mostly from mining and the Pony Express before his writing sustained him. unknown
201364308University of Texas Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2013. First. Hardcover. 0292744366 . Unopened shrink-wrapped copy. Very light wear to corners.; The William And Bettye Nowlin Series In Art History And Culture Of The Western Hemisphere; 13.2 X 11.2 X 1.4 inches; 285 pages . University of Texas Press hardcover
1797130418London: F. and C. Rivington et al Publication dates 1797 & 1807. Plates dated 1795-1807. Hardcover. Very good. 2 volumes in 4 books. Vol. I Part I: clxviii x 2 15 plates Unpaginated ABR-CHE. Vol. I Part II: Unpaginated. CHE-IXO. Vol. II Part I: Unpaginated. KAE-PYR. Vol. II Part II: Unpaginated. PYR-ZYG. 42 cm. 19 plates altogether. Vol. I Part I has 15 plates: first 8 plates are titled Roots Simple Leaves Compound Leaves Flower Pericarp or Fruit Fruit Seed Receptacle Linneus's Classes Linneus's Orders. 7 plates of Linnaean Classes following. Vol. I Part II has 2 Greenhouse plates and 1 Ice House plate. Vol. II Part II has one plate of a Stove. Full diced calf with gilt trim and blank tooling. Marbled endpapers and text block edges. Hinges and corners repaired. A few scuffs. Some foxing in first book mainly to AND pages. Faint stains on a page in CAR. Pages CAR onwards darkened. Some pages darkened in other volumes. Tear in Ice House plate at bottom. Dark mark in margin of VER section. <br/><br/>Title continues: "Containing the Best and Newest Methods of Cultivating and Improving the Kitchen Fruit and Flower Garden and Nursery; Of Performing the Practical Parts of Agriculture; Of Managing Vineyards and Of Propagating All Sorts of Timber Trees. By the Late Philip Miller F.R.S. Gardener to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries at Their Botanic Garden in Chelsea and member of the Botanic Academy at Florence. To which are now first added A Complete Enumeration and Description of All Plants Hitherto Known With Their Generic and Specific Characters Places of Growth Times of Flowering and Uses Both Medicinal and Economical. The Whole Corrected and Newly Arranged With the Addition of All the Modern Improvements in Landscape Gardening and in the Culture of Trees Plants and Fruits Particularly in the Various Kinds of Hot Houses and Forcing Frames: With Plates Explanatory Both of Them and the Principles of Botany." Philip Miller 1691-1771 a commercial florist at St. George's Fields and gardener at Chelsea Physic Garden first published this volume in 1731. First known as The Gardener's Dictionary the book ran through eight editions each one recording new plants and making the author famous in European botanical circles. Thomas Martyn 1735-1825 Professor of Botany at Cambridge laid out that that school's famous botanical garden with the assistance of Miller. One of the great works on the subject ever produced in English this set is considered the starting point for the nomenclature of cultivated plants. Dedicated to Sir Joseph Banks 1743-1820 English Botanist responsible for Kew Gardens. Scarce especially in this condition. F. and C. Rivington et al hardcover
18088834New York: T & J Swords 1808. First Edition. Octavo 2 volumes. Both volumes bound in modern black buckram cloth with new endpapers. Very sturdy and sound. Some internal foxing/age-toning but a clean handsome set. A few ink markings to title pages; overall very good. A very important periodical published by Samuel Mitchill a friend of President Thomas Jefferson. Mitchill's "Medical Repository" was probably the first widely known medical Journal in post-Revolutionary America and it contains some important early medical texts but these two volumes are sought for their early real-time reporting on Lewis and Clark's journey up the Missouri River and reports from Zebulon Pike in his western and southern excursions. Mitchill being a friend of Jefferson's was able to obtain reports from the White House regarding correspondence from Lewis and Clark on their findings in the as-yet unexplored far western portions of the Louisiana Purchase. Mitchill's summary of the trip included in Volume IV here pp. 288-291 predates the publication of Lewis and Clark's journals by seven years and would have been among the earliest chances for the general public to obtain a glimpse into the details of their travels and findings.<br/> <br/> Volume V contains several interesting essays as well most notably "Pike's Journey to Explore Louisiana" pp. 297-300 which summarizes Pike's findings in the Red River Valley and other areas between the Mississippi River and the southwest. <br/> <br/> All issues of the "Medical Repository" are scarce in commerce and these few issues which contain highly important and exciting details of early American exploration of the West do quite well at auction when they infrequently appear. Two important periodicals at home in any fine collection of Western Americana. Sabin 47327. Graff 2737. Not in Howes. T & J Swords unknown
