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1984JC8199New York: Viking Press 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Paper-covered boards cloth backstrip stamped in black and gilt; in illustrated dust jacket. First edition. Inscribed on the half-title: "To Louis Auchincloss intimate of the unsaintly Saint Simon whose impassioned percipience he celebrates and shares -- this little chronicle of striving in a poor country. / Arthur Miller / April 1984." Auchincloss has added in pencil: "See p. 249. Inge Miller told me that she read aloud to AM from 'The Cat and the King' after they went to bed in the month of rehearsals! Probably to put him to sleep -- LA." Also includes a card with a b/w photograph of Inge printed on the front thanking Auchincloss for his kind words upon her death. Book is fine. Dust jacket a little sunned along spine and very lightly rubbed at extremities; looks great in mylar. <br/><br/> Viking Press hardcover books
1999126966Milwaukee OR: Dark Horse Comics 1999. Octavo pictorial boards. First hardcover and first combined edition. Story and art by Frank Miller color by Lynn Varley. This graphic novel first appeared as a series of separate paperbound comics. Basis for the 2007 film about ancient Greece and the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae. Minor bump to lower right front corner else a fine copy without dust jacket as issued. #126966 Dark Horse Comics unknown books
194122950ENorfolk CT: New Directions 1941. First Printing of the New Directions Edition. Signed and inscribed to eccentric hotelier Saki Kazaras by the famous Greek intellectual and writer George Katsimbalis 1899 - 1978 known as the patriarch of Greek literature and as the "Colossus of Maroussi". Inscribed at the front free endpaper: “To Saki Kazaras to remind him of Greece and of his friend G.C. Katsimbalisâ€. With a small black & white photo of Katsimbalis affixed just below his inscription. Very good copy with some minor fading to the cloth at the bottom edge of the spine and front board in a lightly dust soiled and tape repaired dust jacket with some small to medium pieces. Miller’s Colossus of Maroussi was first published in 1941 by Colt Press of San Francisco. Set in pre-war Greece of 1939 it is ostensibly an exploration of the "Colossus" of the title George Katsimbalis a poet and raconteur and is frequently heralded as Miller's best. Saki Kazaras 1922 - 1996 owned the Hotel La Fonda in Taos New Mexico was renowned for his art collection his idiosyncratic business practices and his sumptuous lifestyle. New Directions hardcover books
19413202Norfolk: New Directions 1941. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Miller's book about Greece. Printed later than 1941 judging from the titles on the back of the DJ. This is a very nice copy in attractive dustwrapper. Inscribed by HM to Joan Carr "on the eve of the big storm. Peace! It's Wonderful. Henry Miller. 1/18/54." <br/><br/> New Directions hardcover books
194146156NY: Carrefour 1941. Second edition. 465 pp. Bad stain to top edge water damage ripple to the second half of the text. However the staining is pale except along the top edge where it is dark. Glassine present but very good only with a few chips. All in all a good copy in wrappers but dated 8/9/43 and INSCRIBED by Miller to his early supporter and publisher “For Bern Porter from the amnesiac co-author of the Hamlet saga. With greetings! Henry Miller.†Inside the rear cover is penned by Porter “from the Bern Porter Collection of Contemporary Letters 1963 / Bern Porter.†Shifreen & Jackson A24b. NY: Carrefour unknown books
193967340Santurce: Carrefour 1939. First trade edition. 229 pp. Fine in printed wrappers and fine glassine. One of 475 of 500 copies. Shifreen & Jackson A22b. [Santurce]: Carrefour unknown books
196635851Tucson AZ: Loujon Press 1966. 4to 25.2 cm 9.95". 101 1 pp.; illus. <br><br>Written in 193738 in Paris . . . gifted as a long intimate book letter to the painter Hans Reichel": Miller's gathering of letters and sketches sent to his dear friend Reichel here with an introduction by Lawrence Durrell in a beautifully designed award-winning production including => text printed in black blue and red; facsimile reproductions of manuscript portions; two loose preliminary textured leaves one with printed design; and a glossy photographic portrait of the author.<br>Â Â Â Â This is => one of 99 "Blue Oasis" copies signed by Miller out of a total of 1524 printed; signature towards the back of the volume with a laid-in Loujon Press leaf noting that fact. Publisher's quarter teal morocco and cream clothcovered sides spine with gilt-stamped title in original dust jacket printed on both sides and printed corkcovered slipcase; slipcase with corners a little rubbed jacket with spine and extremities chipped volume's spine a tiny bit rubbed and sunned at extremities; the volume itself in all fresh and lovely. => A nice copy of this remarkable first edition. Loujon Press hardcover books
193929983Norfolk: New Directions 1939. FIRST EDITION. Fine book in a near fine dust jacket with a few tiny nicks at bottom of spine and top edge or rear panel. Particularly nice copy of this important early collection of essays. The edition was 2000 copies. J & S A 23a. <br/><br/> New Directions unknown books
1937D4334Paris: Obelisk Press 1937. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Wraps; 5 loose gatherings pp. 40 3 plus frontispiece. From a limited edition of 200 numbered copies this one out of sequence and unnumbered though inscribed by Miller in the year of publication on the FFEP: "To Anne Poor from Henry Miller Paris 8/15/37 p.s. Jetzt musste die Welt versinker! Et comment!" Anne Poor like Miller was a painter. Wraps heavily chipped and water-stained; frontispiece water-stained on the verso though perfectly presentable. <br/><br/> Obelisk Press paperback books
194618964Philadelphia: Jay Emanuel Publications Inc 1946. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Folio. xx 583pp. Maroon textured cloth gilt. Table of Contents includes The War Years and Post-War Forecasts Design and Construction with an article by Frank Lloyd Wright Equipment Management Television. Post-War theatre plans include theatres in California and Hawaii plus designs by S. Charles Leeand proposals for drive-in theatres and theatres using television as the projection medium. And a proposal to introduce popcorn as a revenue source. Fully illustrated with photos drawings blueprints inserts and fold-outs. Light wear wear and and aging to the gilt else this is in very good condition. Jay Emanuel Publications, Inc hardcover books
1813251581New York: Whiting and Watson 1813. First. hardcover. good. Frontis. 432pp. 8vo modern black cloth scattered light foxing mostly to margins. Frontis. and title page lightly dampstained in margins cloth lightly soiled page margins uncut. New York: Whiting and Watson 1813. First Edition<br/><br/> Rev. John Rodgers was "Among the leaders of Presbyterianism during the late colonial period and the early days of the republic.He was a friend of Gilbert Tennent Samuel Finlay and Alexander MacWhorter and also of John Witherspoon." Dictionary of American Biography XVI p. 75. Rev. John Rodgers was a pastor in New York City from 1765-1810. "Here his congregation so increased that it was soon necessary to build a second church the congregation utilizing both but remaining one ecclesiastical body." DAB XVI p. 75. Shaw & Shoemaker 29166.<br/><br/> Whiting and Watson unknown books
1965153614London: Victor Gollancz Ltd 1965. boards. First edition. Collects nine stories. Includes "I Dreamer" in which a human baby's brain growing in a computer is taught to operate a spaceship and "Dumb Waiter" where robot police still patrol a deserted computer-operated city long after a war has destroyed civilization. Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-767. Neat owner's signature and 1965 date on front free endpaper. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #153614 Victor Gollancz Ltd unknown books
1933146070Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1933. First Draft script for the 1933 film. With holograph pencil annotations to the front wrapper.<br/><br/>Lt. Henry Crocker a blithe Royal Air Force pilot realizes that the constant violence of war is beginning to take a harsh toll on Lt. Jerry Young his flying ace buddy who is showing signs of cracking up. When Young breaks down and eventually commits suicide Crocker decides to stage his death as an in-air combat casualty in order to save his friend's reputation. The script's original ending seen in this early version depicted Crocker years later as a bedraggled old man homeless and alone staring at a memorial plaque with an epitaph praising Young's heroism. <br/><br/>Tall peach titled self wrappers noted as FIRST SCRIPT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped production No. 451 dated January 30 1933 with credits for screenwriters Bogart Rogers and Seton I. Miller. Title page integral with the front wrapper as issued. 115 leaves with last page of text numbered 112. Mimeographed on peach stock rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with creasing to the top left corner of the rear wrapper side stapled. Paramount Pictures unknown books
2003169097Santa Fe NM: Twin Palms Publishers 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Copy 145 of only 200. A photographically illustrated sado-masochistic tale with text by Harland Miller and black and white photographs by Von Unwerth. Includes 190 duotone images. A fine copy in black cloth binding with small photo inset on the front board in a very fine cloth slipcase. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by Von Unwerth. Suprisingly uncommon. Twin Palms Publishers unknown books
1966216025Dublin: Dolmen Press 1966. 11 vols. 8vo. Brown wrappers. Fiune. 11 vols. 8vo. Dolmen Press unknown books
196158938NY: Viking 1961. First Edition. 8vo pp. 132. VG in unfaded dj.Jensen A XI.1a. A screenplay of the movie staring Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe. Viking unknown books
874<br/><br/>Miller Arthur. The Price. San Francisco: The Arion Press 1999. Large octavo. Cloth paper labels. Fine in slipcase. First edition in this format illustrated with duo-tone offset lithographs by Stan Washburn. One of three hundred numbered copies of 326 signed by the author and the artist. 128 p. The eight illustrations 10" x 7" by Stan Washburn depict the set for the play in great detail. The binding is full cloth in a golden-brown color with an additional illustration by Washburn of a clock inset on the front cover; enclosed in a slipcase with cloth edges and paper sides. Extremely fine in slipcase. <br/> <br/>Miller's most successful work since Death of a Salesman The Price depicts a family betrayal played out by two brothers who grew up during the Depression. They come together after sixteen years estrangement to clear their childhood home in Manhattan of furniture. Long-held rivalries resentments and delusions surface when they meet amidst surroundings that prompt painful memories of their father who became immobilized after losing his wealth in the Crash of 1929. As they confront each other while negotiating with an elderly dealer in second-hand goods the viewer - and reader - understands that ‘the price’ has more than one meaning. Comic relief comes in the character of the 89-year-old furniture dealer Gregory Solomon a wise man who is both scoundrel and saint. hardcover books
19492265161949. "Henry Miller" in black fountain pen ink on letter sheet Big Sur California June 2 1949; 4to 8 1/2" x 11"; 1 page recto only. Together with the original holograph mailing envelope stamped with a 6 cent Air Mail stamp and postmarked Big Sur California June 2 1949. Fine fresh. To E.E. Schmidt: 1318 E. Albion Milwaukee 2 Wisconsin In part: "I'm sending you a copy of the Paris 'Capricorn' signed.Sorry but I don't have any of the 'Hamlet'.The Rosy Crucifixion vol. I is due out in August.If you ever know any reliable folks.who want the banned books do let me know." Miller's novels were banned in the U.S. until 1964. Henry Miller 1891-1980 born December 26 1891 New York New York; died June 7 1980 Pacific Palisades California; noted American author; books banned in the U.S. until 1960s; famous for "Tropic of Cancer" 1931 and "Tropic of Capricorn" 1939 banned in the US until 1960s. Soft cover. Fine. paperback books
18933244Cambridge and Chicago: Stone & Kimball 1893. First edition. First edition. Original gray-green smooth cloth with beveled boards gilt borders and lettering on both covers and elaborately gilt spine designed by George Hallowell. Top edges gilt other edges uncut. A utopian prose romance with epigraphs in verse for each of its twenty-four chapters. From Kramer's bibliography: "Its unfinished character remarked by Joaquin Miller in his preface to the 1905 edition is indicated by the lack of titles for chapters xvi and xxi." One of the earliest Stone and Kimball titles Kramer 6 and the manuscript brought to the publishers personally by Hamlin Garland saying it was "from the Hights" referring to the author's home which he built in Oakland. A very fine copy. Almost never seen this is really a landmark in both printing as well as historical novels. near fine bright copy. ìTo Joaquin Miller California mystic poet poseur and sometime politician the pastoral utopia protects humanity from its worst self and ëThe City Beautifulí is built on the axiom that ëman must be saved from man.íî from "The Utopian Novel in America" Jean Pfaelzer. #3244 Extremely scarce thus. <br/><br/> Stone & Kimball hardcover books
19998445Los Angeles CA: Gingko Press 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Minor shelf/edge wear signed by many contributors else tight bright and unmarred. Quarterbound black cloth spine printed paper boards white and green ink lettering and pictorial elements. 4to. 240pp. Illus. color and b/w plates. <br/><br/>Still in print now in its 10th printing the first edition is a remarkably hard animal to find.this copy stands alone as the front free endpage is covered with a who's who including both authors a number of artists and the ever-awesome Penelope Houston of Avengers fame. <br />"Raw brazen and totally intense Fucked Up Photocopied is a collection of frenetic flyers produced for the American punk scene between 1977 and 1985. Many were created by the musicians themselves and demonstrate the emphasis within the punk scene on individuality and the manic urge of its members to create things new. <br />Images were compiled out of whatever material could be found often photocopied and still warm stapled to the nearest telephone pole to warn the world about next weekÂ’s gig. <br />One glance and you can sense the fury of live performances by bands such as Black Flag the Dead Kennedys and The Minutemen and through the subtext the reader is exposed to the psyche of a generation of musicians stripped bare: The Germs J.F.A NOFX X The Circle Jerks Devo The Exploited The Screamers The Cramps The Dils The Avengers and more." from the publisher <br />The definitive reference book on the North American Punk scene poster art covering Boston New York Los Angeles San Francisco San Jose Washington DC Houston and Canada's Toronto and Vancouver. Winner of the Firecracker Alternative Book Award 2000 for Music. Gingko Press hardcover books
194519533Berkeley: Bern Porter 1945. First edition limited to 500 copies 8vo; pp. 10 41-45; title-page rules 2 illus. in text and chapter numbers printed in red throughout; original cream-colored pictorial boards printed in red and black the covers a little bowed extremities browning some soiling to back cover a very good copy. Signed at the preface by Porter and with a cancelled holograph postcard from Miller to Bern inserted through slits in page 43. Miller was unable to provide the full 500 postcards that Bern required so an unspecified number of the edition was remaindered without the holograph item. Shifreen and Jackson A41a. <br/><br/> Bern Porter hardcover books
191819752Chicago: National Conference of Social Work 1918. Offprint. Octavo 22.75cm; beige wrappers printed in black; 4pp. Holes punched at left edge with light dustiness along spinefold else Near Fine. Brief three-part essay dealing with the topic of race adjustment the promotion of greater racial understanding and the integration of relations between whites and blacks towards greater human service. Kelly Miller 1863-1939 was the first African American to receive graduate education in Mathematics Johns Hopkins 1887-89; he later founded the Department of Sociology at Howard University where he taught until 1934. Though less widely-known today than his more famous contemporaries Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois Miller was arguably the most influential Black intellectual of his era a prolific articulate and widely-published advocate for Negro education and civil rights once called by Carter Woodson "undoubtedly the greatest pamphleteer of the Negro race." Rare; we find no copies in the trade with OCLC locating a single copy at Emory University. National Conference of Social Work unknown books
1949007021Los Angeles: Hollis Christensen 1949. SCARCE iconic mid-century design journal. Very Good 1" tear to wrappers top edge at spine light soiling to wrappers a few pages with small bottom or top corner creases. Unpaginated 32 pp. divided into sections on Furniture Lighting Accessories and Interiors. With 1 pp. essay titled "Potters and Craftsmen" by Beatrice Wood and 2 pp. essay "the new and the good" by Alvin Lustig; a section titled "Personalities in Design" with portrait photos and short bios of Maurice Martine Edward J. Wormley Edith Kiertzner Heath George Nakashima Beatrice Wood Isamu Noguchi and Hendrick Van Keppel and Taylor Green; and a 2 pp. Retailers' Directory. Illustrated with black and white photographs. . First Edition. Binder. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hollis Christensen Paperback books
1954259874New York: Privately Printed and Published by The Anglers' Club of New York 1954. First Edition one of 591 copies. Illustrated by Charles De Feo. 147 3 pp. Printed by Peter Beilenson. 1 vols. 8vo. Original brown cloth printed label on upper cover and spine. Bookplate paste ghost on free endpaper else fine in original slipcase. First Edition one of 591 copies. Illustrated by Charles De Feo. 147 3 pp. Printed by Peter Beilenson. 1 vols. 8vo. "A collection of the small lures" notes the author on the title page "on which I have taken many a full basket of friends and good companions from that best of pools the Long Table of The Angler's Club." Bruns M-183 Privately Printed and Published by The Anglers' Club of New York unknown books
195459471New York: Privately Printed and Published by The Anglers' Club of New York 1954. First Edition one of 591 copies. Illustrated by Charles De Feo. 1 vols. 8vo. Original brown cloth printed label on upper cover and spine. Bookplate paste ghost on free endpaper else fine in original slipcase. First Edition one of 591 copies. Illustrated by Charles De Feo. 1 vols. 8vo. "A collection of the small lures" notes the author on the title page "on which I have taken many a full basket of friends and good companions from that best of pools the Long Table of The Anglers' Club". Bruns M-183 Privately Printed and Published by The Anglers' Club of New York unknown books