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173142820897<p>FIRST EDITION. Philip Miller's Gardeners Dictionary is one of the most important books in the history of horticulture. <strong>"This work was in truth monumental; it laid the foundation for all the horticultural knowledge and taste in Europe"</strong> Green <em>History of Botany in the United Kingdom</em>.</p><p>Son of a market gardener Philip Miller 1691-1771 became head of the Chelsea Physic Garden in 1722. Miller corresponded with botanists and gardeners around the world including Linnaeus who visited Miller in London. Building a worldwide network of contacts Miller obtained innumerable specimens and introduced many plants to England. The world's leading authority on horticulture Miller was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1731. By the time of his death in 1771 Miller had transformed the private medicinal garden into the leading botanical garden in Europe.</p><p>Miller's greatest achievement was his <em>Gardeners Dictionary</em> which was issued in eight folio editions 1731-68 during the author's lifetime. A smaller format abridgement appeared in multiple editions in 1735-71. The book's direct descendant is the present-day <em>Dictionary of Gardening</em> published by the Royal Horticultural Society.</p><p>The<em> Gardeners Dictionary</em> was enormously influential in America. "In the American colonies wealthy landowners laying out the grounds of stately new homes inevitably turned to England for inspiration. … The most authoritative design guide of the period was <em>The Gardeners Dictionary</em> written by Philip Miller in 1731. Alice Lockwood author of <em>Gardens of Colony and State</em> pointed to Miller's frontispiece—a symmetrical layout bisected by a canal with walled orchards and beds—as 'the ideal of many a colonial garden.'" Karson <em>A Genius for Place</em>.</p><p>Thomas Jefferson "made constant use of Miller's <em>Gardeners Dictionary</em> which is mentioned frequently in his Garden Books and in his correspondence" Sowerby <em>Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson</em>. Jefferson listed the work in his famous letter to Skipwith naming the books essential for a gentleman's library.</p><p>The Swedish botanist and explorer Pehr Kalm observed in 1753 that he had "asked several of the greatest and best horticulturists both in England and in America what author and what book they had found and believed to be the best in horticulture … They all answered with one mouth Miller's <em>Gardener's Dictionary</em> either in folio or the abstract in octavo was the best of all. … The same answer I have got from several distinguished persons who had themselves had a particular pleasure in planting trees and plants with their own hands. If any of the Lords or great 'Herren' in England wished to lay out a new garden or remake an old one Mr. Miller would always show them how it ought to be done. When the greatest lords drove out to their estates he often drove out with them in the same carriage. In a word the principal people in the land set a particular value on this man" quoted in Le Rougetel <em>The Chelsea Gardener: Philip Miller 1691-1771</em>.</p><p>Provenance: Armorial bookplate of John Rolle Baron Rolle of Stevenstone 1750-1842 on front pastedown</p><p>Folio. xvi 844 pp with 5 plates including frontispiece. Eighteenth-century sprinkled paneled calf spine gilt. Darkening and soiling to boards light wear to extremities small crack to spine. Rebacked preserving original spine. Some light spotting and staining 4-inch closed tear to 2r. An excellent copy</p> Printed for the author and sold by C. Rivington hardcover
1931122334455668<p>The sole UK printing published by the Gregynog Press Newtown : 1931. Number '125' of only 250 copies issued. Illustrated with thirty-seven wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker and wood-engraved initials by her husband William McCance typographer and sculptor. This title was Parker's first collaboration with the Press. Bound in the publisher's original tanned sheepskin with the title blocked in black foil on the spine. Printed in Bembo Type on Barcham Green hand-made paper. The BOOK is in Very Good condition with minor rubbing to the spine and the extremities else a fine copy with only a very occasional light spot in places. A book that is seldom encountered in such sharp condition. The book is protected in a removable Mylar archival cover. Together with Gertrude Hermes and Blair Hughes-Stanton Parker helped to usher in a period of masterly illustrated editions at Gregynog with the Esope title considered one of the masterpieces of the Press. The illustrations by Agnes Miller Parker are considered by Colin Franklin to rank this book as 'the most conspicuously decorative volume of that kind' the binding is smooth appropriately naturalistic and exceptionally well preserved and the type hand-set by Richard Jones is generous and exacting. Writing in his The Private Presses Colin Franklin concluded that 'the entire work of Gregynog printing and binding produced a better thing that anyone else had attempted'. Jones pp. 30-1. Housed in the original plain card slipcase which is a little age worn rubbed and marked but tight and complete. With the publisher's prospectus loosely inserted. A great rarity. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.</p> Gregynog Press, Newtown hardcover
30078London: Bantam Press. 1989. Advance copy of the first edition first printing. Advance copy of the first edition first printing. Association copy. Sent on the author's request to his PhD Supervisor Dr Dennis Sciama a month before first publication. Original blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine in dustwrapper. With 26 black and white scientific diagrams graphs and small illustrations throughout. With a letter from the publisher to Dr. Dennis W. Sciama loosely laid in. A better than very good copy the binding square and firm with a little bumping to the spine tips/ the cloth bright and fresh. The contents with the ownership inscription of Sciama in black ink on the front free endpaper are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper which remains without fading loss or tears. Not price-clipped £14.95 net to the front flap. The laid in letter on Bantam Press stationary is dated 13th May 1988 and reads "Dear Dr Sciama / Professor Hawking asked me to send you the enclosed copy of / A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME which we are publishing on 16 June. / Yours sincerely / signed in purple ink Jenny Wilford / Press and PR Manager". The recipient is English physicist Dr. Dennis W. Sciama 1926-1999 who assigned as PhD supervisor to Stephen Hawking at the University of Cambridge in October 1962 was the first to suggest that he work on astrophysics though much to Hawking's reluctance. "I didn't agree with many of his ideas particularly on Mach's principle the idea that objects owe their inertia to the influence of all the other matter in the universe but that stimulated me to develop my own picture" Hawking 2013. A founding father of modern cosmology Sciama played a pivotal role in keeping Hawking's academic career alive following his ALS diagnosis in 1963 and continuously encouraged his groundbreaking research into singularities and black holes. In addition to Hawking he also supervised several other renowned physicists and astrophysicists in their doctoral research including John D. Barrow David Deutsch and former Astronomer Royal Martin Rees. Professor Stephen W. Hawking: My Brief History 2013. A significant association copy of Professor Hawking's enormously influential bestseller the first book to make quantum physics even vaguely accessible to the general reader. From the first edition of just a few thousand the book has gone on to sell more than 25 million copies in 40 languages. Hawking was one of the greatest science minds in all of history born on the 300th anniversary of Galileo's death he died on the anniversary of Einstein's birthday his ashes are interred at Westminster Abbey next to Sir Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. London: Bantam Press. 1989 hardcover
230418060South-Western College/West. paperback. Like New. 8x1x10. Like-NEW Inside and Out! Clean & Crisp Pages. E-mail for more info./pics South-Western College/West paperback
197658650Pacific Palisades Los Angeles 1976. Fine. Pacific Palisades Los Angeles 1976-1978 23 pages A4 Henry Miller's complete manuscript correspondence with Béatrice Commengé Pacific Palisades CA 1976-1978 23 pages 21 x 29.7 cm A superb complete set of 17 autograph letters signed by Henry Miller and addressed to the writer Béatrice Commengé the author most notably of Henry Miller ange clown voyou Henry Miller: angel clown thug and translator of a number of works by Anaïs Nin. With an autograph envelope addressed by Henry Miller to Béatrice Commengé and an autograph letter signed by Anaïs Nin to Béatrice Commengé. In 1976 Béatrice Commengé then a young literature student began writing a thesis on Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller. From her home village in the Périgord region she wrote to both. Nin who was very unwell apologized for not being able to help her. Miller though let himself be seduced at the outset by the idea of exchanging letters with an inhabitant of Domme the village whose beauty he had lauded in The Colossus of Maroussi. Very quickly impressed with the student's style and determination he entered into a correspondence with her that would last until two years before his death Miller's eyesight broke down completely preventing him from reading and writing. At this time Miller then 85 was living almost as a recluse in Pacific Palisades in California rejecting the American way of life and its illusions and dreading all-too frequent offers and invitations. But the old writer was very quickly charmed by Commengé's outlook on his work: «You are a gem! One of the very few 'fanas'' to understand me. Merci! Merci mille fois!» he writes in his second letter. A true epistolary friendship then develops between the ageing writer and his young muse: «I think of you as some sort of terrestrial angel» and «what a delight to get a letter from you»; «Keep writing me please!» In passionate letters that are written and re-written with their English mixed with French words underlined copious brackets and exclamation points and post-scriptums squeezed into the margins Miller examines his work and his memories. He refuses a purely academic correspondence «To be honest with you I don't think either A.N. or I who are naturally very truthful persons really succeeded with truth as it is conventionally thought of. We are both confirmed fabulators'.» Miller recommends the young woman the books he's been reading recently and his old friends: «Lawrence Durrel is the friend to talk to about me . he knows me inside out»; «he is wonderful when you get to know him. éblouissant même»; «that great master of the French language Joseph Delteil»; «Delteil is almost a saint. But a lively one»; «Alfred Perlès is the clown the buffoon who made me laugh every day». He goes on to congratulate her on abandoning her didactic project in favor of an «imaginary book about him» and launches on a much more intimate correspondence. He confesses his shock as well: «Did you read about the French prostitutes protesting and demonstrating in Paris against my receiving the legion of honor They say I did not treat them well in my books. And I thought I had!!». He also shares his literary tastes: «I prefer the Welsh. They are the last of the poets». He also warns the future translator of Anaïs Nin against his former mistress' duality: «She is or was a complete enigma absolutely dual. . Actually I suppose there is always this dichotomy between the person and the writer» and confides to her her secrets: «she is slowly dying of cancer she refuses to admit it. This is entre nous!». He also discusses his latest loves: «I am in love with a very beautiful Chinese actress . I seem to go from one to another never totally defeated never wholly satisfied. But this is near eternal' love as I've never been.» Indeed despite his advanced old age the author of Sexus has lost nothing of his passion for the fairer sex and his correspondent's being a wom unknown
1931GREGYNOG016586The Gregynog Press Newtown Montgomeryshire. 1931. First edition thus. Quarto. pp viii 146 2. Thirty-seven large wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker in addition to large pictorial initials designed by the printer William MacCance. Parker's work was her first as a book illustrator and by general agreement it remained unsurpassed in her later career. Full sheepskin.One of 250 numbered copies.A few marks and some light rubbing to the spine. Very good indeed in the card slipcase which is slightly bumped and rubbed. The Gregynog Press, Newtown, Montgomeryshire. unknown
121584New York The Viking Press 1949. . First edition first printing inscribed by the author; 8vo; Leslie Bricusse's bookplate to verso of front free endpaper unmarked internally; publisher's orange boards stamped device on upper board grey topstain illustrated endpapers with the unclipped first state dustjacket designed by Joseph Hirsch slight rubbing to extremities short closed tear to top edge of rear panel else very good.<br /> Major association copy inscribed by the author to two-time Academy Award-winning composer Leslie Bricusse in blue ink on the half-title: 'To Leslie Bricusse / with best wishes. / Arthur Miller'.<br /><br />The play premiered on Broadway in February 1949 running for 742 performances. It is a two-act tragedy set in 1940s New York told through a montage of memories dreams and arguments of the protagonist Willie Loman a travelling salesman who is disappointed with his life and appears to be slipping into senility.<br /> New York, The Viking Press, 1949. hardcover
1949192014New York: The Viking Press 1949. Inscribed to an original cast member First edition warmly inscribed by the author on the first blank "To Connie Ford You can always say the play was written around you. Affectionally Arthur Miller". Constance Ford played Miss Forsythe in the original staging of the play in 1949. Death of a Salesman marked Ford's Broadway debut but she was already well-known as the face of Elizabeth Arden's Victory Red lipstick. Miller's classic play won multiple Tony Awards the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Circle Critics' Award. It was published in March shortly after the Broadway premier at the Morosco Theatre on 10 February 1949. After the original production closed on 18 November 1950 the play was adapted for film in 1951. Octavo. Original orange cloth spine lettered in black pictorial design on front cover in black illustrated endpapers top edge brown. With supplied dust jacket. Spine sunned with nick to head finger mark to first blank and half-title; jacket unclipped spine lightly sunned nicks and chips to extremities marks along rear flap fold: a very good copy in like jacket. hardcover
136175London: Phaidon 2019. First edition first printing. Limited edition of 100 copies signed in felt tip on the limitation page by Miller. Original print signed in pencil lower left by Miller numbered on the verso. The most comprehensive monograph to date on the British artist and writer best known for his paintings based on the dust jackets of early Penguin paperbacks Quarto. 190 illustrations throughout with a loose original colour etching and relief print titled In Shadows I Boogie 31.7 x 22.3 cm. Original illustrated boards titles to spine in grey and red. With the original signed print. All in excellent condition. paperback
1936190457Paris: The Obelisk Press 1936. Friendship and censorship First edition presentation copy inscribed by the author on the first blank "To Huntingdon Cairns with all best wishes - in remembrance of pleasant days in Paris. Henry Miller 8/36". As the United States Censor in the 1930s and 40s Cairns declared the author's first four novels obscene and banned them from the US. Despite this he personally enjoyed Miller's writing and became one of the author's most committed advocates and friends. Cairns 1904-1985 was appointed the official US Censor in the Customs Bureau by the Secretary of the Treasury in 1934. One of his first acts in that role was to reluctantly ban Miller's first novel Tropic of Cancer due to its pornographic content. As well as an assiduous lawyer Cairns was a sensitive reader a writer of essays and book reviews and friends to several literary figures in his Baltimore circle. One of these the critic H. L. Mencken received a contraband copy of Tropic of Cancer from Miller which he forwarded to Cairns. "Informed by Mencken that Cairns had read and admired Cancer Miller wrote to Cairns in May 1936 announcing the imminent publication of another controversial book Black Spring and offering to send it to him. A few months later Cairns and his wife Florence were in Paris and the two men met" Hoyle 2014. There Miller presented Cairns with this copy which Cairns read while travelling back to the US. He wrote to Miller on his return: "It filled me with admiration. I know of no other writer who is more naturally a novelist or who writes anything approaching your power" quoted in Hoyle 2017. Following their meeting Cairns worked to obtain favourable reviews for Miller's writing hoping to raise his profile as a serious novelist. Despite his efforts Black Spring was not published in the US until 1963. The two men nevertheless enjoyed a friendly correspondence for more than 25 years Miller writing to Cairns in 1939 that "I consider you along with Emil Schnellock my two American friends" quoted in Hoyle 2017. This is the first issue priced 50 francs on the front flap and rear wrapper. Octavo. Original orange wrappers printed in red front wrapper illustration by Maurice Kahane edges untrimmed. Wraps and contents toned as often minimal rubbing to extremities a near-fine copy. Arthur Hoyle The Unknown Henry Miller: A Seeker in Big Sur 2014; idem "'My Friend the Censor': Henry Miller Huntington Cairns and Tropic of Cancer" Empty Mirror 18 March 2017 available online. paperback
1957434845New York: Viking Press 1957. Hardcover. Good. Second printing. Quarter cloth and paper covered boards. A bit worn at the extremities a good copy lacking the dust jacket. A copy of Miller's collected plays from the library of Xenia J. Chekhov the second wife of Michael Chekhov who was the nephew of Anton Chekhov and Marilyn Monroe’s acting teacher on the West Coast. Miller has Inscribed the book twice once briefly on the front board "For Mrs. Michael Checkov sic. Arthur Miller" and a second time in a lengthy Inscription that occupies the entire front fly:<br /> <br /> “Dear Mrs. Checkov; I hope this book the work of ten years will give you pleasure. Through Marilyn and now through you I have come to feel a strange closeness to Mr. Checkov. I am indebted to him and to you for your goodness and help to Marilyn who is living testimony of your husband’s lasting ability to inspire.<br /> <br /> For myself I know that he saw more precisely and more deeply than any other man the vision my work was striving to realize and the esthetic means I have employed. I feel joined to him by this understanding-- this man I never met but who was my friend.<br /> <br /> To both of you therefore my deepest respects.<br /> <br /> Arthur Miller<br /> <br /> September 1958.â€<br /> <br /> Initially Monroe took biweekly lessons with Michael Chekhov and she considered his book To the Actor to be her essential guide to the craft. This volume displays an interesting personal link between Miller and Marilyn married 1956-1961 by way of Chekhov who as Miller notes he never personally met. Despite that it was Chekhov who as Miller states “saw more precisely and more deeply than any other man the vision my work was striving to realize and the esthetic means I have employed.â€<br /> <br /> The book came from Lawrence Stern author of Stage Management who was bequeathed the book in the will of Xenia Chekhov. A wonderful inscription with a significant association and notably mentions Monroe who seldom appears in Miller's inscriptions. Viking Press hardcover
194023453New York: Medvsa 1940. An extraordinary copy in effect the dedication copy. First American edition designated by Shifreen & Jackson as the "Eighth Edition/First American Edition/Medvsa Edition. 1000 copies printed with an overrun of 200-500. "Before printing Gershon Legman added the colophon "Imprenta de México 1940" "for fun" and to direct attention from the 25th Street New York place of publication since the book was banned from the United States at the time." Shifreen & Jackson A9j. Miller's dear friend Emil Schnellock's copy with a full-page inscription by Miller to Schnellock on the front free endpaper: "Fredericksburg VA Dear Emil I don't remember the original dedication but this will do - like Shakespeare's horse you talk about - "for all time". To my friend Emil who standing on a street corner pushed me into that world I always wanted to see and finally saw. Hallelujah! Henry 12/1/44." There are pencil notes in the text but they appear to us to be in Schnellock's hand. Miller and Schnellock met as schoolboys at P.S. No. 85 in Brooklyn class of 1905 - "a standing joke between them as the letters show . . . They then went to different high schools and lost sight of each other for many years during which Schnellock traveled and studied in Europe. Thus when a chance encounter brought them together again in 1921 Miller regarded his old friend with awe marveling that na ordinary Brooklyn boy should have become an accomplished artist and cosmopolite. That encounter as Miller frequently remarked had a decisive influence on his life." - Introduction Letters to Emil p. vii. It is that "decisive moment" that Miller alludes to in his inscription. Accompanied by one of Schnellock's notebooks with drawings and text and a copy of Letters to Emil. Edited by George Wickes London: Carcanet 1990 which comprises Miller's voluminous correspondence with Schnellock from 1922-1934 a project that Miller had conceived in 1938: "In September 1938 Henry Miller announced among other works in preparation a book called "Letters to Emil" to be published in the Villa Seurat Series that he was then editing for the Obelisk Press in Paris. The letters . . . had recently been assembled and transcribed; only the task of editing remained. . . . what with the distractions of the Munich Crisis his struggles with Tropic of Capricorn his visit to Greece and the outbreak of the war he never got around to editing the letters." - Introduction Letters to Emil p. vii. Inch in diameter stain to bottom edge of front cover of Tropic of Cancer covers somewhat soiled otherwise a good copy without dust jacket as issued; enclosed in a half-morocco folding box. 8vo original pale green cloth. Inch in diameter stain to bottom edge of front cover of Tropic of Cancer covers somewhat soiled otherwise a good copy without dust jacket as issued; enclosed in a half-morocco folding box. Medvsa unknown
19691305511969. Rare original watercolor painting by American writer and artist Henry Miller. Signed and dated by the artist "Henry Miller 8/69." In near fine condition. Matted and framed the entire piece measures 31 inches by 27 inches. To read Miller without his watercolors is to miss something essential. The two practices were never separate compartments of a versatile temperament. They were one continuous act of attention carried out in different mediums. Miller came to both arts late and by improvisation. Born in 1891 and raised in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn he spent his twenties and early thirties in a succession of jobs—Western Union personnel manager being the longest and most despised—and a first marriage that left him restless and unsure of his vocation. He read voraciously and idiosyncratically: Whitman Emerson Dostoevsky Knut Hamsun Élie Faure. He wrote and discarded several manuscripts. He did not yet know how to put a sentence together with the unmistakable rhythm that would later carry his name. The watercolors began in this same period of indecision. The story Miller liked to tell—and like most of his stories it has the burnish of frequent telling—is that he sat down one day with a child's paintbox and began to make pictures with no instruction whatsoever. He did not study composition. He did not enroll in a class. He simply painted with the same mixture of immersion and bravado that he would later bring to the books. Painting and writing entered his life through the same door: as practices of self-discovery undertaken without permission. In 1930 Miller arrived in Paris with almost no money and stayed nearly a decade. The years he describes in Tropic of Cancer—hunger walking talk the cafés and the borrowed beds—were also the years in which his prose finally became his own. Tropic of Cancer was published in 1934 by Jack Kahane's Obelisk Press in the familiar soft wrappers and with the warning that it was not to be imported into England or the United States. Black Spring followed in 1936 and Tropic of Capricorn in 1939. The voice of these books—rhapsodic profane philosophical comic and unembarrassed—was unlike anything else being written in English. What is sometimes overlooked is that Miller went on painting throughout these Paris years. He painted at café tables and on hotel desks. He gave watercolors away to friends and bartenders. He included an essay on his painting practice—"The Angel Is My Watermark!"—as a chapter of Black Spring a piece in which he describes the abandon of the act with the same comic seriousness he brought to his accounts of writing. The essay is one of the more memorable pieces of prose ever written about the act of painting by someone the art world had not yet recognized as a painter except that Miller was already by the standards he cared about a painter. When Miller returned to the United States in 1940 and eventually settled at Big Sur in 1944 the watercolors took on an even larger place in his daily life. He often wrote in the morning and painted in the afternoon. He hung them on the walls of his cabin. He sent them to correspondents in lieu of letters. He sold them when he needed money sometimes for a few dollars sometimes traded for groceries and supplies. The habit of giving them away casually and without ceremony became part of the texture of his Big Sur years. The publications on painting accumulated. The Waters Reglitterized a small treatise on the watercolor practice appeared at mid-century. To Paint Is to Love Again which gathers his thinking on the discipline with the directness of a man addressing what he loves most appeared in 1960. Insomnia or the Devil at Large published late in his life recounts a sleepless period during which he produced a series of watercolors as the only solace the hours offered him. Across these books a consistent attitude emerges. Miller refuses to treat painting as either an amateur indulgence or a secondary art. He treats it as a vocation. His refusal was more than rhetorical. The watercolors themselves have steadily found their audience. They were exhibited during his lifetime in the United States in Europe and in Japan and the major collections of them have continued to be shown and published in the decades since his death. Miller was one of those writers who becomes a critic in spite of himself and his pages on painting amount to a quiet consistent aesthetic. He believed that the act of painting was a form of prayer—a phrase he used without irony. He believed that one should paint as a child paints without the burden of knowing better. He believed that mistakes were not to be erased but absorbed that the watercolor's accidents were among its great virtues and that the painter's task was to remain receptive rather than to assert mastery. These convictions are not incidental to his prose. The same trust in accident the same suspicion of the corrected and the polished the same preference for flow over architecture governs the structure of Tropic of Cancer and Black Spring. Miller's books proceed by association rather than plot. They take their shape from the rhythm of the sentences and the sudden swerves of the speaker's attention. They share in other words the method of his watercolors. The two practices clarify each other. To understand what Miller meant by writing one has to understand what he meant by painting; and vice versa. He once wrote that to paint was to love again. The phrase is sentimental in the way Miller could be when he was telling the truth. He meant among other things that painting returned him to a state of unguarded attention to the world that ordinary life conspires against. The books had the same purpose. In addition to his contributions to literature American writer and artist Henry Miller produced a significant body of watercolor paintings and published several books on the field. Unlike writing which Miller considered work he regarded painting as a means to recharge and relax and even used his watercolors to barter for household supplies and other services. Many of Miller's paintings feature horses and horse-like figures reminiscent of the Etruscan ceramic paintings he admired at the Louvre during his time living and working in Paris. unknown
19400002096LUFT. D. CAMP IV STALAG GERMANY. Good. 1940. On offer is a sensational original World War II manuscript relic being the 50 page handwritten diary and ephemera of American Airman Marvin J. Miller who documents his capture and time spent in Luft. D. Camp IV Stalag considered one of the most violent and brutal German prison camps noted for bayoneting prisoners beating and mistreating them as a matter of routine in IV-D and after the war there were hearings on this camp in a rough notebook he traded for cigarettes from a camp guard. While Marvin a devout Latter Day Saint didn't smoke he did play Pinochle and he always had a supply for barter. The diary starts out with their ill fated mission; Marvin was in the top turret of a B-24 flying with the 464th Bomb Group in the 776th Bomb Squadron and was shot down on 24 August 1944 flying in "COM-BATTY" which was stationed in Pantanella Italy and was lost to enemy action on a mission to Pardubice Czechoslovakia. Marvin was on the February 6th "Black March" also called the "Starvation March" a long and arduous forced march from the Stalag that took 86 days and nearly 600 miles until liberated on April 26th 1945. He was very ill with dysentery and even while in the sick detachment and he names the men who died from pneumonia etc. Even amidst the horror of captivity by the Germans Marvin and his chums still have times for humor recording a few pages from letters of fellow POWs that had black humor to them. He also wrote several fine poems and thoughts on flying German Flak War Love Peace and Food! He meticulously records the contents of the various Care Packages that the Red Cross delivered: super detailed content and record of daily life in the Stalag and Liberation. Flak smoke in the sky enemy fighters and interrogations. Marvin does a super job with some very stirring and poetic words as well as just plain telling it like it was. Historians and researchers will appreciate Marvin's contribution to history recording the names and addresses of many of his friends that he's made in camp and acquaintances. Listing them by Stalag Building Number and then by room. Many are local Utah internees. Included are four photos taken in Halle of wrecked German ME-109 STUKAS an 88 and a girl on a bicycle and a letter written to Marvin while in captivity! Overall G.; Manuscript; 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF MARVIN J MILLER CATERPILLAR CLUB SWITLIK PARACHUTE PILOTS AAF ESCAPE EVASION SURVIVAL PRISONER OF WAR BLACK MARCH SURVIVOR POW STARVATION MARCH BATAAN DEATH MARCH WWII WW2 WORLD WAR II EUROPEAN THEATRE AMERICAN AIRMEN SHOT DOWN SALT LAKE VALLEY LUFT. D. CAMP IV STALAG GERMAN PRISONER HERO COM-BATTY LATTER DAY SAINT AMERICANAHANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT AUTOGRAPHED AUTHORS AMERICANA MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH KEEPSAKE WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL PERSONAL HISTORY ARCHIVE DIARY DIARIES 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
2022x-3030426335Springer 2022. Hardcover. New. 4th edition. 8214 pages. 10.00x7.01x8.50 inches. Springer hardcover
4227091996. Near Fine. A collection of six Inscribed books by Alma Routsong the real name of author Isabel Miller from the library of Elizabeth Deran her partner and the motivating force in her life along with Deran’s copy of Routsong's final book published shortly before Routsong’s death in the fall of 1996. Most notable is a first edition of the self-published lesbian classic A Place for Us 1969 later published by McGraw-Hill under the title Patience and Sarah 1972 which was selected by the American Library Association as the winner of its first Gay Book Award now called the Stonewall Book Award. The group of books also contains two copies of Patience and Sarah the first hardcover edition and first French edition as well as three Naiad Press first editions: The Love of a Good Women A Dooryard Full of Flowers and the Dedication Copy of Side by Side. Overall near fine with light wear to the dust jackets or wrappers. unknown
1941127428Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1941. First edition of the author's classic work. Octavo original cloth. Association copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "For George Seferiades Cordially yours and good luck Carson McCullers from Henry Miller." The recipient George Seferiadis the veteran Greek diplomat and scholar who as George Seferis the poet won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1963 was a liberal thinker who inherited a strong democratic tradition from his family. His pen name a shortened form of his family name reflects what his friend the British poet Rex Warner called his fondness for “innocent easily penetrable disguises.†It also emphasized his role as wanderer since sefer is rooted in the Arabic word for journey emerging in Swahili as safari. The announcement of the Nobel Prize for his poetry was made in October 1963 and Mr. Seferis received the prize personally in Athens that December. A year later he was made an honorary Doctor of Literature at Oxford and the following year Princeton awarded him an honorary degree. In 1966 Seferis became a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Seferis and fellow writer Henry Miller were close friends and Miller had this copy inscribed by McCullers as a gift. Near fine in a near fine first issue dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell and chemise box. An exceptional association copy linking three great writers of the twentieth century. Reflections of a Golden Eye immortalized by the 1967 film starring Elizabeth Taylor Marlon Brando and John Houston. Set on a Southern army base in the 1930s it tells the story of Captain Penderton a bisexual whose life is upset by the arrival of Major Langdon a charming womanizer who has an affair with Penderton's tempestuous and flirtatious wife Leonora. Upon the novel's publication in 1941 reviewers were unsure of what to make of its relatively scandalous subject matter. But a critic for Time Magazine wrote "In almost any hands such material would yield a rank fruitcake of mere arty melodrama. But Carson McCullers tells her tale with simplicity insight and a rare gift of phrase." Written during a time when McCullers's own marriage to Reeves was on the brink of collapse her second novel deals with her trademark themes of alienation and unfulfilled loves. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover
192784735L.M. Miller. As New. 1927. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - - Corresponds to ASIN: B0006EY4RK. 88 pages; 4 color wood block prints; 8vo. ; loose as issued. -- with a bonus offer-- . L.M. Miller paperback
192784736L.M. Miller. As New. 1927. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - - Corresponds to ASIN: B000UDL5FG. 88 pages; 4 color wood block prints; 8vo. ; loose as issued. -- with a bonus offer-- . L.M. Miller paperback
19921685001992. BOURGEOIS Louise. Homely Girl A Life. By Arthur Miller. Two volumes. With 10 drypoints by Bourgeois. Folio 290 x 215 mm. original beige half morocco over grey cloth preserved in a grey cloth slipcase. New York: Peter Blum 1992. A fine copy of this highly effective example of contemporary bookmaking. The playwright Arthur Miller gave Louise Bourgeois an unpublished story for which she provided two sets of illustrations. The publisher issued both hence the two volumes one containing original drypoints and the other a series of offsets from colour photographs. The publisher also issued two versions. The one most commonly encountered consisted of an edition of 1200 copies with reproductions of the etchings. The limited edition of which this is one illustrated with original drypoints is extremely scarce. One of an edition of 100 copies with the colophon signed by Miller and Bourgeois. The American Livre de Peintre 8. hardcover
19784428DB1978. 2 Kassetten. Lausanne. André et Pierre Gonin Éditeur. 1978. 1 Bogen mit Farbstichzeichnung. 84 Seiten 21 gefalteten Bogen 20 ganzseitige Lithographien Suite mit 18 Lithographien. Illustrierter Leinenband mit individuell gestaltetem gezeichnetem Pergamin-Schutzumschlag. N° 1 von 157 nummerierten und vom Verleger und Künstler siginerten Exemplaren. Dazu in zusätzlicher Mappe und Acrykassette eine Vielzahl von Arbeitsentwürfen Probeabzügen etc. Es sind dies: 2 Aquarelle mit Widmung von Hans Falk and Walt und Dorli Beglinger 59 gefaltete Bogen «Papier japon nacré et vélin» mit 58 Lithographien zum Teil überarbeitete Probeabzüge oder Andrucke 25 Aquarelle 9 Collagen 32 zum Teil farbige Zeichnungen. Die meisten Blätter sind von Hans Falk signiert. unknown
32967Washington: M.M. 1973. Original Autographed Letters. Marcel Marceau. Marcel Marceau. Original Autographed Letters. Signed by Author. "Like the clown we go through the motions forever simulating forever postponing the grand event. We die struggling to get born. We never were never are. We are always in the process of becoming" - Henry Miller" - Epilogue. "The Smile At The Foot Of The Ladder "I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth." - Marcel Marceau. Marceau Marcel. Henry Miller. AUTOGRAPHED AND ILLUSTRATED LETTER SIGNED. Washington 1973 8vo. on blue tinted onion skin. A wonderful rambling letter & as much original art from Marceau in French scrawled across 13 pages with small humorous illustrations on many pages all about asking Miller for the rights at whatever price to make a film from Miller's "Smile At The Foot Of The Ladder". Translation In part " First of all I send you my best wishes for the year 1973. . . with all the silences and heart of the Bip flower. I saw the drawing in your book. Thank you for including it. / It will always remind me of those unforgettable moments in Berchères. . . I understand you. Here's what it's about I would absolutely want to produce the movie version of / "The smile at the foot of the ladder" / To put it simply tell me if the book is still available for me to create an adaptation that will follow your Spirit and your heart. I am ready to buy the movie rights! You know I am just like you. . . Complex. . . but / without ambiguity and loyal! . . It's better to answer to God than to his saints. Also from you - to me- in all honesty. . . give me the movie rights to the "smile". I wait in silence like a peasant on a mountain. . . I would really like / my first movie to be the "smile at the foot of the ladder". If the rights are taken and no one does anything with them like the American who wouldnt go anywhere then please give them to me. . . tell me the cost and I will be in Los Angeles in May. / Right now we are touring universities and big cities in the United States. You book is really beautiful! I admired your drawings!!! One word from you / would make me happy if you want Unhappy if it pleases you. . . Your pale Bip flower. . . who loves you like a brother / Elaborate Bip Clown Illustration Henry Miller With the faithful heart of the Bip Flower Always M.M. / If you agree we will deal with the formalities in Los Angeles in June - my heart is beating like a little girl's / Faithfully with my heart and my friendly hand Your Bip Marcel Marceau" Marceau's interest in Millers novella "The Smile At The Foot Of The Ladder" is obvious - the book is the story of a clown named Auguste whose one-dimensional fame causes an existential crisis of identity and a Siddhartha-like quest for spiritual meaning. Time Magazine review from 1948 adds: "Auguste's search for his true identity is a dangerous quest and it ends fatally but not before he has discovered that perhaps he was all right just as he was . . . The mistake he had made was to go beyond his proper bounds. " Karl Orends book Henry Millers Angelic Clown: "Reflection on The Smile At The Foot Of The Ladder" 2007 Alyscamps Press is a thorough analysis of Millers 1948 short novel. In his view "Ladder" may not contain a writer character named Henry but the clown named Auguste is reflective of the spiritual and philosophical core of Henry Miller. "More than any other text Henry Miller wrote" writes Orend "The Smile At The Foot Of The Ladder gives us a concise and allegorical vision of the point towards which all his writing was aimed Apocatastasis and the attainment of Samadh." Published in 1948 Smile provided a spiritual ladder or bridge between his Colossus Of Maroussi 1941 & Big Sur & The Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch 1957. Marcel Marceau 1923 - 2007 was an internationally acclaimed French actor & the most acclaimed mime in the world most famous for his persona as Bip the Clown. M.M. unknown
18496294Paris & Leipzig: G. De Gonet & Chez Charles Twietmeyer 1849. First edition. Two parts in one quarto volume 11 x 7 3/8 inches; 280 x 187 mm. 4 xvi 252; 4 186 2 pp. With added hand-colored wood-engraved vignette title in each part hand-colored engraved portrait of Grandville by Ch. Geoffroy and twelve hand-colored engraved plates eleven in the first part one in the second part by Ch. Geoffroy after Grandville all with original tissue-guards. Handsomely bound by Charles Meunier stamp-signed in black on front turn-in "Ch. Meunier. 1905". Full blue morocco covers decoratively rued in gilt with gray morocco inlaid borders enclosing an elaborate design of inlaid gray cream and green inlaid flowers with decorative gilt stems. Spine with four raised bands decoratively inlaid in various colored morocco's decorated and lettered in gilt in compartments. Decorative gilt board-edges gilt ruled turn-ins with inlaid gay morocco borders gray-green marbled endpapers top edge trimmed others uncut. Original printed paper wrappers and spine bound in at end. Unidentified bookplate "Nec Tu Semper Eris" You will not always be on verso of front flyleaf. Housed in the original blue leather edged patterned paper board slipcase. A wonderful copy of this lovely book with exquisite plates after Grandville. <br /> <br /> This posthumously published work Grandville died on March 17 1847 was originally issued in fifty parts the first part appearing in September 1849. "The compositions of this 'last fairy-tale' brilliantly engraved on steel by Charles Geoffroy and delicately colored form a fitting memorial to Grandville.The pattern which he follows is similar to that of Les fleurs animées. Nearly every plate has its beautiful lady clad in white and adorned with stars looming in the sky with varied scenes of earthly life below her. These designs Grandville's tranquil refuge from the turmoil that beset his mind are as charming as they are mysterious. Also included in the volume are an unsigned essay which remains the most considerable source of biographical information about Grandville and a fine portrait of him by Geoffroy I xvi with a border of his creations animals paying him tribute as well as his flower- and star-ladies" Ray. <br /> <br /> The talented Charles Meunier 1865-1940 was first apprenticed to a book binder at the eleven years old. After training with Marius-Michel he began his own binder in 1885 where he sought to be innovative and nontraditional. ". Drawing on traditional and modern techniques and forms of decoration Meuniere mixed classical punches. with newly fashionable incised and modeled leather panels. His output was prodigious; by 1897 he had produced roughly six hundred bindings" Art Nouveau and Art Deco Bookbinding.<br /> <br /> <br /> Ray The Art of the French Illustrated Book 200. Vicaire V col. 770. Grandville. Dessins Originaux p. 398. G. De Gonet & Chez Charles Twietmeyer unknown
18866337London: Pirvately reprinted 1886. Limited edition. Fine. Number 49 of 50 copies on Japan Paper signed by the editor B.B. Haggin. Small quarto 8 9/16 x 6 9/16 inches; 217 x 167 mm. iv 117 3 blank pp. Original stiff paper wrappers decorated in gold bound in and illustrated with very attractive engraved head and tail-pieces. Additionally inscribed on a front blank leaf "Compliments of the Editor/B.B. Haggin/March 27th 1892." Bound ca. 1892 by Charles Meunier stamp-signed in gilt on lower turn-in. Full rose colored crushed morocco each cover richly and decoratively bordered in gilt surrounding a rectangular foliate frame with sixteen flowers inlaid in black morocco and fourteen leaves inlaid in green morocco. Spine with five raised bands and five inlaid black morocco flowers decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments in a matching design decorative gilt board-edges wide gilt decorated turn-ins blue silk liners and end-leaves marbled end-papers all edges gilt. Housed in a felt-lined dark blue cloth clamshell case spine with leather label lettered in gilt. A spectacular binding on a beautifully printed book.<br /> <br /> Luís Vaz de Camoens c. 1524-1580 often Camoens is lauded as Portugal's most significant poet. A prolific writer of both epic and lyrical verse he ranks him amongst the other European literary greats including Dante Shakespeare or Milton. Despite his fame surprisingly little can be confirmed about his life resulting in "successive biographers have woven the few concrete facts known about Camões's life into a bewildering complexity of fantasy and theory that is unsupported by concrete documentary evidence" Britanica. While some of his poetry was lost during his lifetime Os Lusíadas The Lusiads remains a classic. Here this lovely collection presents romantic verse from the beloved poet.<br /> <br /> The talented Charles Meunier 1865-1940 was first apprenticed to a book binder at eleven years old. After training with Marius-Michel he began his own binder in 1885 where he sought to be innovative and nontraditional. ". Drawing on traditional and modern techniques and forms of decoration Meuniere mixed classical punches. with newly fashionable incised and modeled leather panels. His output was prodigious; by 1897 he had produced roughly six hundred bindings" Art Nouveau and Art Deco Bookbinding. Fine. Pirvately reprinted unknown
1931378785San Francisco: A. Roman & Company; John H. Carmany & Company et al. 1931. Hardcover. Very Good. Magazine. 93 bound volumes and 40 single issues in wrappers. Octavos and folios. A long run of Overland Monthly California’s most important literary magazine of the 19th and early 20th Century. The set includes a near complete run of the original series from July 1868 until December 1875 lacking only the January 1870 issue else complete; and a long near complete run of the second series from 1883 when it resumed publication through 1931. In 1923 it merged with Out West to become Overland Monthly and the Out West Magazine and changed its format from octavo to folio.<br /> <br /> Founded and first edited by Bret Harte Overland Monthly established serious literature and progressive social criticism in the American Far West. It quickly won national and international acclaim as a leading literary force in American letters. Ambrose Bierce Mark Twain and Harte contributed sardonic stories and verse and all manner of informal highly personal commentary which propelled Harte and the magazine to literary celebrity. The magazine gave rise to a new generation of writers loosely known as the West Coast Romantics that included Bierce and Harte John Muir Willa Cather Joaquin Miller Jack London George Sterling and fantasy/science fiction writer Clark Ashton Smith all of whom contributed to the magazine. Among the many important works featured in this long run is Harte’s “The Luck of Roaring Camp†“Dickens in Camp†and “Plain Language from Truthful James†and Bierce's "The Haunted Valley" and “Grizzly Papers†in five installments. Mark Twain contributed his famous travel log in four installments: “By Rail Through France†and “A Californian Abroad: A Few Parisian Sights; Three Italian Cities; A Mediaeval Romance.†Willa Cather’s short story “On the Divide†appeared in 1896.<br /> <br /> Most volumes are bound in full beige or blue cloth. The original series lacks one monthly issue January 1870 otherwise it is complete in 14 bound volumes volumes 1-3 and 5-15 with four unbound issues in wraps February-May 1870. Volume 3 from 1869 has the original wrappers and supplements bound in. Volumes 1-6 of the second series is incomplete consisting of 11 unbound single issues in wraps from 1883-1885: April 1883; January April July August September October and November 1884; January March May 1885 then follows a consecutive run of mostly bound volumes 7-89 from 1886-1931 with 29 single issues from 1921-22 in wrappers. The bound volumes from 1901-1931 have the original wrappers bound in.<br /> <br /> An ex-library set with bookplates or ink stamps on the front pastedowns. Only two volumes in half calf from 1895 and 1897 are scuffed and worn thus good only about ten volumes and a few single issues in wraps from the 20th Century have some intermittent torn leaves the volume containing the “San Francisco Fire Number†May 1906 is split at the gutter with detached leaves else overall an about very good set. A scarce large assemblage of many first appearances of important American literary works and articles. A list of notable selections is available. A. Roman & Company; John H. Carmany & Company [et al.] hardcover
