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19739027734Santa Barbara: Capra Press 1973. 1st . Hardcover. Fine. With collected essays by Henry Miller on the Art of Watercolor. Foreword by Lawrence Durrell. Edited by Noel Young. One of 250 numbered copies signed by Durrell. Fine condition in a fine slipcase. <br/><br/> Capra Press hardcover books
196458981NY: Viking 1964. First Edition. One of 500 large paper copies signed by the author. Fine in little rubbed publisher's box. Jensen A.XIII 1a. Viking unknown books
195558925NY: Viking 1955. First Edition. 8vo pp.15. self wraps a fne copy. Signed by Arthur Miller. Not in Jensen. Rare. This seems have been an offprint issed at the same time as A View from the Bridge. Viking unknown books
1965150264N.p.: N.p. 1965. Vintage borderless photograph of director Franco Zeffirelli on the set of the 1965 Italian production of Arthur Miller's 1964 play. With two printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso along with an agency stamp. From the archive of the PIX Agency a photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers as well as those still living in Europe and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969.<br/><br/>Miller's play premiered on Broadway at the ANTA Washington Square Theatre on January 23 1964 and ran for a successful 208 performances although not without facing a fair amount of criticism for its thinly veiled cynical portrayal of Marilyn Monroe from whom Miller had recently been divorced. The play toured Europe in 1965 and was staged at the Teatro Eliseo in Rome in December 1965 under Zeffirelli's direction. <br/><br/>Set in WHERE shot on location in WHERE. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. CONDITION. N.p. unknown books
1962145983Universal City: Universal International Pictures 1962. Final Draft script for the 1963 film.<br/><br/>Based on the 1961 novel by Leo Rosten. An Army doctor in charge of a neuropsychiatric ward at an Air Corps hospital in Arizona encounters a variety of tough humorous and touching cases. Rosten's novel took inspiration from the experiences of his wartime friend Ralph Greenson a psychoanalytic doctor who was one of the first in his field to link post-traumatic stress disorder although that terminology was not yet in use with the ordeals of war. Nominated for three Academy Awards including Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Bobby Darin.<br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Arizona.<br/><br/>Red titled wrappers noted as FINAL SCREENPLAY on the front wrapper rubber-stamped production No. 8473 dated November 19 1962. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Richard L. Breen. 163 leaves with last page of text numbered 167. Mimeographed rectos only with pink yellow and blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 11/26/62 and 1/31/63. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. Universal International Pictures unknown books
1974143018N.p.: N.p. 1974. Japanese program for the 1970 Danish film. Illustrated wrappers with photos from the film throughout and with essays by director Jens Jorgen Thorsen and Country Joe of Country Joe and the Fish as well as a profile of Henry Miller upon whose book the film is based. Text in Japanese apart from the film title which is in English. <br/><br/>Saddle stapled illustrated card wrappers. 8.25 x 11.75 inches. 14 pages. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1297MILLER George. LATTER STRUGGLES IN THE JOURNEY OF LIFE.OF A COUNTRY BOOKSELLER. Edinburgh: The Author 1833. Large 8vo. Cloth. 406 2 pages. First editio With much information on the book trade in Scotland during the early part of nineteenth-century. Contemporary name in ink on title page and front blank covers lightly worn recased. unknown books
185414095London England: J. Hogarth 1854. Hardcover. VG clean tight interior with mild tanning to page ends and book plate inside front cover; BUT top half of spine cloth with title label has come off and needs to be re-attached. It is laid into the book. Book is still solid. Green cloth. 164 pp. with a bw frontis 30 bw engravings bw tailpiece drawing and a folding facsimile manuscript. AEG. Includes 15 engravings by Turner 15 by Girtin the tailpiece drawing by Girtin and frontis of Turner by Count D'Orsay. Text includes the list of plates preface biographical memoir of Turner and Girtin and facsimile copies of three original letters two from Turner to others. Turner and Girtin were contemporaries friends and artistic rivals. J. Hogarth hardcover books
19401313761New York: Medvsa/Medusa 1940. First Paperback Edition Variant Binding. Softcover. Octavo 322 pages; VG-; bound in purple paper wraps plain spine faded to beige; uneven sun-faded to covers; wrinkling to spine; The first American edition privately printed in this pirated edition of 1000 copies by Jacob Brussel under the fictitious imprint of 'New York / Medusa.' An overrun of 200 to 500 unbound sheets were printed for later distribution accounting for the nine variants which followed this first issue. The First Paperback Edition also the Seventh Medusa Varient. Shifreen & Jackson A9Q; Printed in Mexico it precedes the authorized Grove Press 1961 American edition by more than two decades.; shelved case 2. 1313761. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Medvsa/Medusa unknown books
197619438Santa Barbara: Capra Press 1976. Edition limited to 250 press-numbered copies signed by Miller at the colophon 8vo pp. 8 9-138 5; facsimile reproduction of "Foreword" by Miller printed on endpapers illustrations throughout some reproducing artwork by Miller; a fine copy in black morocco-grained leather and somewhat spotted acetate jacket Miller's signature in blind on front cover gilt-titled spine. This copy with errata slip laid in. Shifreen and Jackson A198b noting that this numbered edition reached only 224 copies. <br/><br/> Capra Press hardcover books
1999CNRD03San Francisco: The Arion Press 1999. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Washburn Stan. No. 196 of 300 copies quarto size 111 pp. signed by Arthur Miller and Stan Washburn with original publisher's white paper wrapping. Arthur Asher Miller 1915-2005 was seminal figure in twentieth-century American Theatre. A prolific writer of over thirty plays which won him a Pulitzer Prize and multiple Tony Awards he questions "death and betrayal and injustice and how we are to account for this little life of ours"; for nearly six decades Miller created characters that wrestle with power conflicts personal and social responsibility the repercussions of past actions and the twin poles of guilt and hope n. b. info from The National Endowment for the Humanities website. In "The Price" Miller details familial conflict and relationships through the pull of memory and the past as they collide with the present.<br/><br/>Stan Washburn b. 1943 a painter and printmaker who has collaborated with the Arion Press on publications such as "The Lie of the Mind" by Sam Shepard and "Tono-Bungay" by H. G. Wells illustrates this edition with stark drawings of antique furniture; Washburn's bold mark making and high contrast depicts the isolation between the characters and their environment.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Full brown cloth cream paper label with brown illustration by Stan Washburn inset to the front board cream paper spine label with brown lettering fore- and bottom edges uncut full-page black-and-white illustrations by Washburn throughout; Goudy Old Style type Zerkall paper quarto size 10.25" by 7.25" pagination: 1-6 7-110 1 colophon one of 300 copies this number 196 signed by Arthur Miller on the half-title page and by Stan Washburn on the colophon. Housed in a slipcase covered in brown cloth with cream paper paste-downs with a pattern of dollar signs in brown with cream paper spine label with brown lettering. With the original publisher's white paper wrapping.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: Volume is very fine with clean covers straight corners with no rubbing a strong square text block with solid hinges the interior is clean and bright and entirely free of prior owner markings. The slipcase is fine also strong and sturdy clean and without wear. Clean and as new volume came to us in the unopened publisher's wrapping which we opened in order to catalogue. <br/><br/>___POSTAGE: Â International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. The Arion Press hardcover books
197618369Ireland: Dolmen Editions 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Small quarto in dustwrapper. A fine hardbound copy in dustwrapper. Illustrated bibliography of twenty five years of publications by the Dolmen Press. Compiled by Liam Miller. One of 650 trade copies. Beautiful and useful. <br/><br/> Dolmen Editions hardcover books
194990220NY:: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1949. Hardcover. The author's second novel. First printing. INSCRIBED by the author to an unnamed recipient: "To remind you of / the two months / you were my / benefactress / Isabel Bolton / nee / Mary Britton MIller / 1953." Very good in a very good dust jacket. Dust jacket design by Mary Petty. ; 212 pages; Signed by Author . Charles Scribner's Sons, hardcover books
1895015849Baltimore MD: John Murphy & Co. 1895. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. vi 259 pages of text. Original brown hardcover binding with minor fraying and the spine extremities and minor shelfwear. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition. John Murphy & Co. Hardcover books
19783241New York: Avenel Books 1978. Hardcover. Fine. Color plates. Henry Miller's copy inscribed to him by a friend: "To my guru Henry Miller to remember the golden colorful days of the past when this world was still livable. San Diego Jan. 30 1979." Offered with: Vincent A life of Vincent Van Gogh by Julius Meier-Graefe. London: John Lehmann 1948. Although unmarked as such also from the library of Henry Miller. In his later years especially HM would turn to painting as a comfort and practice it more seriously. <br/><br/> Avenel Books hardcover books
1859319602Charleston SC: A.E. Miller 1859. 51 6pp. Manuscript annotations on the endpapers including dates of plantings receipts etc. South Carolina stagecoach and railroad timetables mounted on the inside front wrapper. 8vo. Contemporary paper wrappers. 51 6pp. Manuscript annotations on the endpapers including dates of plantings receipts etc. South Carolina stagecoach and railroad timetables mounted on the inside front wrapper. 8vo. Antebellum South Carolina almanac with manuscript annotations listing recipes for various illnessess but also listings of plantings including pear trees. Sabin 49009 A.E. Miller unknown books
19532105024Viking Press 1953. first. hardcover. First edition with First Published by the Viking Press In April 1953 stated on the copyright page. Book near fine corners very slightly bent. Dust jacket good big piece missing on front panel and a couple of other small pieces missing pric-clipped. Viking Press unknown books
199925976San Francisco: The Arion Press 1999 1999. First Arion Press edition one of 326 copies signed by Washburn. Fine copy in the slipcase. 8vo original rust-orange cloth and printed paper labels. Eight plates. From the library of David & Valerie Belch. <br/><br/> San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1999 hardcover books
1978140938530New York: The Viking Press 1978. First Edition. Very Good/Near Fine. First edition first printing. Signed by Arthur Miller on the front free endpaper. Biopredation to boards and textblock at edges otherwise Near Fine. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear. A nice copy. The Viking Press unknown books
199224582New York: Peter Blum Edition 1992. First Edition. Limited to 1200 copies. 2 volumes; large quarto 29.5cm.; original cloth spines lettered in red grey board slipcase; 19 color plates including 8 double-paged photographs in Vol. II. Printed at the Stinehour Press; designed by Klaus Baumgärtner. Peter Blum Edition unknown books
19114749bdNew York: Review of Reviews Co. 1911. Ten volumes. Quarto gilt-stamped blue cloth hardcover. Photographs throughout. Near-Fine; Volume I has a small gouge near middle of rear joint otherwise the set is clean and tight. Domestic orders will require $9 additional shipping for set; international orders will require more. Review of Reviews Co., 1911. hardcover books
193712382Paris: The Obelisk Press. Very Good-. 1937. Limited/Numbered Edition. Wraps. original card wrappers gray printed in red somewhat browned with age tears at spine ends about one-quarter-inch strip paper loss beginning at about the middle of the front wrapper extending across the spine and about one inch into the rear wrapper a couple of small tears at top and bottom edges of rear wrapper a few minor dampstains at edges; the frontispiece illustration is in Near Fine condition and the internal leaves all loose as issued are in Very Good or better condition with the title page a bit browned. "This the original edition published in 1937 is limited to two hundred copies signed by the author and numbered 1 to 200" this being No. 55 SIGNED by the author on the limitation page verso of title page. Miller's "treatment" as it were for a film version never made; probably never intended to be made of Anais Nin's "The House of Incest." Contemporary gift inscription on inside front cover reads "I'll take the blame for sending this." Signed by Author . The Obelisk Press paperback books
194411006ENorfolk CT: New Directions 1944. First Edition. From the library of noted Western fiction author Frederick Manfred signed by the author with the signature of his real name: “Feike Feikema 6-23-45.†Very good plus lightly used copy with very minor edge wear in a very good slightly dust soiled dust jacket with one 1†closed tear at the head of the spine. A collection of stories essays and other prose pieces including two “works in progress†- America The Air Conditioned Nightmare and The Rosy Crucifixion. Frederick Manfred is best known for his Western novelsConquering Horse King of Spades Eden Prairie and Lord Grizzly. New Directions unknown books
194922535Paris: Obelisk Press 1949. First Edition. Limited to 3000 copies of which these are nos. 2661 & 0004. Two volumes; small octavos 19.5cm.; original grey-green cloth spines stamped in green and gilt; 368; 326pp. Spines a bit faded gilt lettering starting to dull; preliminaries slightly foxed else a Very Good or better set. The first title in "The Rosy Crucifixion" trilogy. SHIFREEN & JACKSON A76a&b. Obelisk Press unknown books
1955162671San Franciso: Greenwood Press 1955. Limited. paperback. fine. 39p. light green pictorial wrappers; original tissue d.w. San Francisco: Greenwood Press 1955. Limited Edition. Fine.<br/><br/> One of 500 copies. Presentation copy to radio personality/book collector Ben Grauer "Warm greetings.Big Sur 10/6/55".<br/><br/> Greenwood Press unknown books