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200019780Stockholm Wisconsin: Midnight Paper Sales 2000. First edition limited to 166 copies this one of 26 lettered copies signed by Schanilec on the limitation page and specially bound in quarter leather spine gilt in a clamshell box along with a portfolio containing 45 additional ephemeral pieces printed by Mr. Wulling; folio pp. 71 4; illustrated throughout with 24 facsimiles woodcuts ink-jet reproductions ephemera and 7 color wood-engravings by the artist-printer Gaylord Schanilec. Prospectus laid in. Introduction by Rob Rulon-Miller and with a check-list by him of better than 270 books chapbooks broadsides etc. printed by Emerson Wulling at his Sumac Press in both Minneapolis and La Crosse Wisconsin. The text proper consists of an interview conducted by Gaylord Schanilec and Rob Rulon-Miller with Emerson Wulling in 1995 and 1999. Wulling who began printing in 1916 and continued to print into the 21st century printed longer than any printer before him - 87 years in all - a record of sorts which will quite probably never be broken. Quarter to Midnight A.199.a. <br/><br/> Midnight Paper Sales hardcover books
1920004502Paris: Marcel Seheur 1920. Preface by Pierre MacOrlan. 4to cream-colored boards titled in red and brown with paste-down color illustration. In extraordinary condition. One of 175 copies with contents on light card leaves mounted on stubs. Illustrated by Lucien Boucher painter and poster designer. Two vignettes in text double page view of the prison camp and 21 plates handcolored by the artist in somber and melancholy tones. The brief text and the images reflect the boredom and depression of prison life. The three men were prisoners of war in the Mersenburg camp in Saxony " Lucien Boucher the publisher Marcel Seheur and the author Mario Meunier who was the secretary of Rodin and Isadora Duncan. University of Chicago website: " large blocks of color oblique angles and abstracted forms that clearly owe something to Japanese prints and avant-garde practice. Boards. Fine. Illus. by Lucien Boucher. 4to. Marcel Seheur Hardcover books
1949170619003New York: The Viking Press 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. New York: The Viking Press 1949. 139 pp. First edition first printing first state in first issue jacket. All first points present: stated "First published by the Viking Press Inc. in March 1949" at top of copyright page with "American Book-Stratford Press" mention below; broken type on pg. 11 "solid"; blue top stain. First issue jacket has price of $2.50 photo of Miller on back flap and the "S" in salesman passes the outer elbow of the man on the front panel. Near Fine with slight fading to orange cloth at spine and top and bottom edges. Light foxing to edge of page block. Small crease to front free end paper. In a Near Fine dust jacket with light edge wear short edge tear light crease to top outer corner of front panel and front flap and light soiling to rear panel. A very lovely copy. The Viking Press hardcover books
19527036Aigle France: Mermod 1952. First French edition preceding English language edition one of 3000 copies. No. 5 in the series La Grenade. 8vo; handsomely rebound in 3/4 bordeaux morocco with pastepaper over boards spine paneled author and title in gilt on spine; marbled endpapers original wrappers bound in top edge gilt text a bit browned else fine. Mermod unknown books
194057794New York 1940. With Van Vechten Blind stamp. 1 vols. Approximately 9-7/8 x 8 inches. Fine. With Van Vechten Blind stamp. 1 vols. Approximately 9-7/8 x 8 inches. unknown books
2415To Bruno Adriani Miller mentions French author Arthur Rimbaud and Hermann Hesse's classic "Siddhartha." "Do you recall ever seeing a photograph of Rimbaud's mother Mermod in Lausanne are bringing out the 2 parts of my work on Rimbaud in French this year. Letter from H. L. Mermod advises no photo of the mother in the famous Matarosso Collection. Yet I saw one of her Vitalie in an old issue of 'Labyrinthe' Mastarosso Coll too!. Wonder if this was a mistake of the printer I suppose Mermod wishes to include some photos in the book. Roger Cornaz is doing the translation. Did you ever know Gerhart Muench composer & pianist from Dresden He's in Altadema now and invites me frequently - rather amazing letters. Just read Hesse's 'Siddhartha' in French.Depresses me tremendously." He signs "Henry Miller." Bruno Adriani born August 18 1881 in Werne Germany January 7 1971 in Carmel-by-the-Sea was a German-American jurist art historian and patron Adriani was married to the American painter Sadie Adriani. They emigrated at the end of 1930 to Geneva and at the end of 1936 the couple moved to the USA where they finally settled in Carmel-by-the-Sea in California in the autumn of 1941. In the early 1960s Adriani donated her art collection as a "Bruno & Sadie Adriani Collection" to the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco including a still life by Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet a Seine landscape. unknown books
280353Miller & Co. unbound. Map. Lithograph with original hand coloring. Sheet size 13.25 x 60.75 inches.<br/><br/> This rare and beautiful circa 1840s map by Miller and Co. depicts the southeast shoreline of Manhattan along the East River. Extending from Whitehall Slip to Corlears St. it marks the piers and parts of piers belonging to the Corporation which are marked with a 'C' and are colored in.<br><br>Depicts the old slips from Whitehall Slip to Governeur Slip including Coentis Slip. The many slips created along the East River were an important part of the city that depended primarily of maritime trade. With larger ships being built the slips offered limited space and piers and wharves were built out into the river. The slips would still continue to be used for smaller vessels. Over time the slips were filled in and by the mid-nineteenth century all but one slip remained. Coentis Slip a favorite docking place for many barges that came through the Erie Canal down the Hudson was filled in by the end of the century. Today some of the old slips exist in name only a reminder of the old city of New York. <br><Br>The map is in very good condition. Shows some foxing and wear along original fold lines.<br/><br/> Miller & Co unknown books
197095358Big Sur: Ben Ben Press 1970. First edition of Miller's short illustrated work on a visit to St. Remy in the South of France. 12mo original wrappers as issued illustrated. One of only 2000 copies. Association copy inscribed by the author on the verso of the front panel to his second wife June Mansfield "For June All the best! Henry 1/16/67." In fine condition. Miller's second wife June convinced him to commit to writing full time and became the inspirations for most of his best known works including Tropic of Cancer. After they divorced in 1934 they remained close friends and Miller continued to send his new works to her for many decades to come. With the original transmittal envelope addressed to Mrs. June E. Corbett in Miller's hand. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A significant association most rare and desirable. American writer and artist Henry Miller became renowned for developing his own type of semi-autobiographical novel that blended character study social criticism philosophical reflection stream of consciousness surrealist free association and mysticism. In addition to his large body of literature he also wrote several travel memoirs and painted watercolors. Ben Ben Press unknown books
19476377Berkeley: Henry Miller and Bezalel Schatz 1947. Copy # 168 signed by author and artist. Very Good/The tortured publication history of this title begins with the sixteen months that Miller and Bezalel took to produce the sheets with the help of printer Alfred Stoddard in an edition of 800 copies. A prospectus apparently failed to generate subscribers so according to Schifreen and Jackson fewer than 200 copies were bound Hargrave estimates even fewer. The sheets were then stored in a closet suffering damage from vermin and deterioration from mold. Salvagable sheets were reissued in 1971 some of them in a modified binding and some of the wormy sheets were then acquired by Coast Gallery in 1976 and bound for sale. Our copy #168 is surely from the original 1947 issue with the red fabric patch on the upper board. In the opening text Miller calls the book "a Coney Island of the mind." Ferlinghetti's book of the same name appeared eleven years later. . 37 cm; 40 leaves including two leaves printed on glassine silkscreened in color throughout. Text written in author's hand and color silkscreened. Bound in blue cloth with Bezalel's screened shapes and a piece of red fabric by Eda Kairn. LACKS slip case. SIGNED by Miller and Schatz on justification page. Slight wear at extremities. Unblemished text. References: Shifreen & Jackson A60a; Hargraves #30. ADDITIONALLY: a silkscreened bifolium 315 x 385 mm heavy white paper reproducing two pages of the book with text and illustration signed by Miller and Bezalel; edges a little pinched; AND a three-panel glassine sheet frayed printed on one panel with the full text of the title page which reads: "The one and only life is the night life the life of the mind the night of night the life the mind the night the night life. The is the Coney Island of the mind the Toboggan Slide the Into the Into. The is the without which wherefore and however of the night's bright mind the life and mind of night the mind and night of night or Into the Night Life with Henry Miller and Bezalel Schatz. Henry Miller and Bezalel Schatz hardcover books
17871466Hartford 1787. Letter. Very good. In the fall of 1785 after Revolutionary War service Greene and family settled to Mulberry Grove in Chatham County Georgia near Savannah where land had been gifted from the State of Georgia and the Carolinas yet Nathanael's time there would be short -within one year Greene was dead. The children's tutor Phineas Miller took up the role of plantation manager. It is within this time period that this letter was written I have sent you the best assortment of garden seeds I am now able to procure - They are from a retailer who received them fput up mark'd and warranted from Col. Wadsworth's gardener. Col. Jeremiah Wadsworth was a friend of General Greenes. I intended to have had a larger assortment selected by himself but he went out to West Division early this morning with the intention of putting them up this evening and Capt. Sweet sails today so that I had no alternativebut to get them of the retailer - I have put on board a salmon for your family and Mrs. Ward with very particular directions to Capt. Sweet to take care of it and hope it may arrive good and prove agreeable - Please to present my most respectful compliments to the Governor and family and permit tme to to be Madam your Most Obedient and Very Humble Servant. -- Phins. Miller. In 1792 after passionate and active work on the part of the widow the crushing debt that General Greene amassed during the Revolutionary War was erased. In this same year Eli Whitney came aboard the plantation to assist. Within the year the cotton gin was fully developed. On March 14 1794 Whitney received a patent for the cotton gin - it was debuted on the plantation grounds. By some reports she was in partnership with Miller in the financial and logistical support of the process of patent and production of the gin. In an 1883 article in The North American Review titled "Woman as Inventor" the early feminist and abolitionist Matilda Joslyn Gage claimed that Mrs. Greene suggested to Whitney the use of a brush-like component which was instrumental in separating the seeds from the cotton. In 1796 Phineas and Catherine were married but Mulberry Grove would not outlast the duo. By 1798 it was sold and the Millers moved to Cumberland Island to land given to Gen. Greene. <br/><br/>Sheet folded with creaselines and wax seal. Foxing with no loss text clear to read. unknown books
1993259208New York: Privately Printed by W. Thomas Taylor. The Anglers' Club of New York 1993. First edition number 34 of 48 copies SIGNED by Francis Patricia Miller Sherwood Nick Lyons & Tom Taylor with a leaf of original typescript with annotations tipped in at back. Frontispiece portrait from photograph by Hermann Kessler. Set in Minion type and printed on Arches mouldmade paper169 3 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Full dark blue morocco grey spine label titled in silver. As new in cloth folding box. First edition number 34 of 48 copies SIGNED by Francis Patricia Miller Sherwood Nick Lyons & Tom Taylor with a leaf of original typescript with annotations tipped in at back. Frontispiece portrait from photograph by Hermann Kessler. Set in Minion type and printed on Arches mouldmade paper169 3 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Deluxe Edition One of 48 copies. Superbly produced posthumous volume in tribute to Alfred Miller best known through his pseudonym Sparse Grey 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 books
1970404886Albuquerque NM: Loujon Press 1970. A fine copy the original subscriber's copy and virtually untouched since publication a few areas of trivial wear to box a few of the prints with some soft handling creases not affecting image. Complete suite: printed book in original comb binding and decorative paper wrapper in sunken panel of wooden box with 12 color prints reproducing Miller's calligraphic watercolors 17 x 22 inches. Original subscriber's brass name plaque on sliding box cover. One of 385 copies of "Edition G" signed by Miller on the colophon in the text volume. Loujon press issued 7 deluxe editions of the suite and note that "Unfortunately because of the extra spur-of-the-moment costly format changes in the production's not-from-a-blueprint progressive creation plus press breakdowns a ceiling collapse that tattered stacks of printed pages & a mountain of wind gust that blew in windows next day sprinkling glass particles everywhere just prior to insurance coverage source exhaustion of short term loans at high interest plus a 20 percent of gross and inability to hire skilled help imprisoned the entire production-design editing book printing & page collation the handcrafting in entirety of portfolio boxes from raw uncut wood to what is seen here in completion very few of them exact duplicates even in any one edition's labeled individual classification-inside the confines of 18-hour workdays 7 a week by only two workers Louise Gypsy Lou & Jon Webb the editors necessitating see the beginning this sentence instead of 999 copies a reduction in total publication of the 7 editions to 699 books & 699 portfolios with quantity changes in 5 of the 7 editions." <br/><br/> Loujon Press unknown books
1846WRCAM20367Fredonia N.Y. 1846. xi1378pp. Modern three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Faded library stamp on titlepage. Foxing throughout. About very good. Miller an American citizen who participated in the Canadian rebellion of 1837-38 was transported to the penal colonies in Van Dieman's Land and New South Wales. He was one of nine political exiles who published accounts of their experiences. His is a vivid firsthand narrative of the Rebellion; his trial conviction and transportation; life in the penal colony; and subsequent pardon and return home. This is one of the rarest of the Canadian exile narratives of interest for both its Australian and North American connections. FERGUSON 4349. HOWES M613. SABIN 49037. COHEN 4305. LANDE 1980. TPL 2790. STORY p.699. hardcover books
181234742New York: various 1812. Ten sermons bound in contemporary half sheep and marbled boards rubbed gum label at spine base. Rubberstamp on blank front pastedown. Manuscript table of contents. Each sermon as follows:<br/><br/> 1. A SERMON PREACHED IN NEW-YORK JULY 4TH 1793. BEING THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF AMERICA: AT THE REQUEST OF THE TAMMANY SOCIETY OR COLUMBIAN ORDER. BY.ONE OF THE MINISTERS OF THE UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES IN THE CITY OF NEW-YORK. New York: Greenleaf. 1793. 38 2 blanks pp. Very Good. On the final blank is Miller's written notes. The Tammany Society should "stand as guardians over those inestimable rights and privileges which have been so dearly purchased." Christianity teaches the equality of all. Slavery will "be forever banished from a nation" which regards everyone "as subject to the same great laws and amenable to the same awful tribunal in the end." <br/>Evans 25823. <br/> 2. A DISCOURSE DELIVERED IN THE NEW PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH NEW-YORK: BEFORE THE GRAND LODGE OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK AND THE BRETHREN OF THAT FRATERNITY ASSEMBLED IN GENERAL COMMUNICATION ON THE FESTIVAL OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST JUNE 24TH 1795. New York: Childs. 1795. 32pp. Light to moderate foxing Good. Verso of title page has Miller's notes laid in explaining another of his discourses should have been inserted. His Discourse says Masonic principles "are such as the blessed Redeemer perpetually dropped from his hallowed lips." <br/>Evans 29081.<br/> 3. A SERMON DELIVERED FEBRUARY 5 1799; RECOMMENDED BY THE CLERGY OF THE CITY OF NEW-YORK TO BE OBSERVED AS A DAY OF THANKSGIVING HUMILIATION AND PRAYER ON ACCOUNT OF THE REMOVAL OF A MALIGNANT AND MORTAL DISEASE WHICH HAD PREVAILED IN THE CITY SOME TIME BEFORE. New York: Forman. 1799. 36pp scattered foxing. Good. With a chart showing 2082 deaths listed by religions including eleven Jews; also listing forty-three Negroes. <br/>Evans 35821. Not in Austin.<br/> 4. A SERMON DELIVERED MAY 9 1798 RECOMMENDED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TO BE OBSERVED AS A DAY OF GENERAL HUMILIATION FASTING AND PRAYER. New-York: Swords. 1798. 46 2 blanks pp. Very Good. The "events in Europe" are characterized by atheism profaneness a "selfish and mercenary spirit." Miller warns against the "curse" of "European connections."<br/>Evans 34109.<br/> 5. A SERMON DELIVERED DECEMBER 29 1799; OCCASIONED BY THE DEATH OF GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON LATE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE AMERICAN ARMIES. New York: Swords. 1800. 39 1 blank pp with the half title. Light toning Very Good. Evidently Miller's sermon was similar to one delivered by Dr. Erskine of Edinburgh because an 'Advertisement' on the verso of the title page denies that "such coincidence" was the result of plagiarism. <br/>Evans 37964. Stillwell 171a.<br/> 6. A SERMON DELIVERED BEFORE THE NEW-YORK MISSIONARY SOCIETY. APRIL 6TH 1802. TO WHICH ARE ADDED THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS AND OTHER PAPERS RELATING TO AMERICAN MISSIONS. New York: Swords. 1802. 81 3 blanks pp. Lightly foxed else Very Good.<br/>AI 2660 5.<br/> 7. THE GUILT FOLLY AND SOURCES OF SUICIDE: TWO DISCOURSES PREACHED IN THE CITY OF NEW-YORK FEBRUARY 1805. New York: Swords. 1805. 72pp with the half title. Mild foxing Very Good.<br/>AI 8903 4.<br/> 8. A SERMON PREACHED MARCH 13TH 1808 FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE SOCIETY INSTITUTED IN THE CITY OF NEW-YORK FOR THE RELIEF OF POOR WIDOWS WITH SMALL CHILDREN. New York: Hopkins and Seymour. 1808. 31 1 blank pp. Very Good.<br/>AI 15610 3. <br/> 9. THE ADDRESS INTRODUCTORY TO THE ORDINATION SERVICE AND THE CHARGE TO THE MINISTER. Pages 19-38 comprising Miller's Address in a pamphlet on Reverend Gardiner Spring's ordination AI 20738. With Miller's handwritten notes. <br/> 10. THE DUTY OF THE CHURCH TO TAKE MEASURES FOR PROVIDING AN ABLE AND FAITHFUL MINISTRY: A SERMON DELIVERED AT PRINCETON AUGUST 12 1812 AT THE INAUGURATION OF THE REV. ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER D.D. AS PROFESSOR OF DIDACTIC AND POLEMIC THEOLOGY IN THE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Pages 5-54 comprising Miller's remarks in a pamphlet comprising his and other Addresses on the occasion. See American Imprints 26080. various unknown books
19499026495New York: Viking 1949. 1st . Hardcover. Very good/very good. Dust jacket is slightly chipped at the extremities not price clipped. Former owner's signature on from endpaper. <br/><br/> Viking hardcover books
1992034789Kingston: Kingston Publishers. 1992. "The Uncensored Story of Luther Campbell of the 2 Live Crew." Campbell's autobiography which deals to a great degree with the obscenity case brought against him and the Two Live Crew for their lyrics on an album with the same name as this book. When the album was declared obscene and illegal to sell Campbell and two others were arrested after performing songs from the album at a club in Florida. They were acquitted in their court case after Henry Louis Gates Jr. among others spoke on behalf of their lyrics. This book was published in Kingston Jamaica with a "Parental Advisory" notice on its cover because it was thought that it might not be publishable by an American publisher. When it was published in America after the trial and appeal had ended it became a bestseller but the Jamaican edition which is the true first is quite scarce. OCLC lists only 6 copies of the Kingston edition. Light wear to spine and corners; near fine in wrappers. Softcover. Near Fine. Kingston Publishers paperback books
1961136499Los Angeles: J.E.R. Pictures 1961. Original one sheet poster for the 1961 film. <br/><br/>A rare artifact from the second of eight nudism-related films produced and directed by the prolific sexploitation director Doris Wishman. <br/><br/>Working with a large sum of inherited money two scientists build a rocket to take them to the Moon. Once there they discover that the Moon's surface is covered with lush tropical vegetation and giant golden nuggets. The astronauts are soon captured however by a colony of telepathic lunar nudists who are actually topless rather than completely nude. Much of the film deals with the men's efforts to collect data documenting their discovery and well as with the burgeoning romance between the younger of the two astronauts and the queen of the Moon people. On their return they realise that the most important evidence the camera has been left behind. <br/><br/>27 x 41 inches. Rolled as issued. Near Fine. J.E.R. Pictures unknown books
194716365Big Sur: Henry Miller and Bezalel Schatz 1947. Schatz Bezalel. A visual riot of a book printed totally in serigraph in bright colors. The text is derived from Henry Miller's <i>Black Spring</i> and is presented in Miller's hand. The pages of text are interleaved with vividly colored images by Bezalal Schatz which also creep into some of the pages of text. These images range from small accent pieces to roaring two page spreads. One of 800 copies although there is some doubt about how many copies have survived the rodents in Miller's basement. Signed by author and artist cloth bound with serigraph printed on the binding and the vaunted bit of red felt is glued to the front. Book is in fine condition.The slipcase while sound and visually presentable may well have been a survivor of the attentions of Miller's gang of mice--there are a few minor stains and a couple of small rubbed spots. The spine of the case bears a small clear tape with the number 313 of this copy. Henry Miller and Bezalel Schatz hardcover books
19091459091909. MEUNIER Stanislas. La Terre qui Tremble. 240 pp. 72 illustrations and photographs. Paris: Ch. Delagrave 1909. A scientific novel written for the general public by Stanislas Meunier who was a geologist mineralogist and scientific jourmalist. From 1892 to 1920 he was professor in the Natural History Museum of France. unknown books
186951919Paris: Bureau D'Abonnement et de Vente a la Librairie Auguste Goin 1869. First edition. 7 issues 8vo. varying paginations; stitched into printed self wrappers and untrimmed as issued. One issue has a triangular tear to the last 5 leaves with no loss of text. The various issues are very good to fine. In this contiguous group of weekly issues 19 June 1869 to 31 July 1869 Charles Cros and Louis Ducos du Hauron alternate publishing letters in defense of their individual claim of priority of the discovery of the three-color photographic process. A lengthy and substantive dialogue which closely followed the publication of: Cros Charles. SOLUTION GÉNÉRALE DU PROBLÈM DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE DES COULEURS. Paris: Gauthiers-Villars et au Bureau du Journal Les Mondes 1869 and preceeded the publication of: Ducos du Hauron Louis. LES COULEURS EN PHOTOGRAPHIE ET EN PARTICULAR L'HÉLIOCHROMIE AU CHARBON. Paris: A. Marion Janvier 1870 by several months. <br/><br/> Scarce with but a few holdings in the United States. <br/><br/> Bureau D'Abonnement et de Vente a la Librairie Auguste Goin unknown books
1955257271New York: The Viking Press 1955. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards. Fine copy in slightly worn and soiled dust jacket with chip from head of spine. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. A Rare Inscribed Copy. INSCRIBED on the flyleaf: "For Ruth Cooper Without whom nothing underlined would happen right! Best luck Arthur Miller."<br/>A fine association copy of this book which is rarely found inscribed. Ruth Cooper worked for MCA Management Ltd. which represented Arthur Miller for over 40 years. The Viking Press unknown books
19631503620Grove Press 1963. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. A fine first US printing inscribed and dated by the author Henry Miller in a very good dust jacket. First printing of Grove Press hardcover edition. Black quarter-cloth gray/green marbled paper boards gilt spine lettering gilt front cover facsimile author signature black top-stain cream endpapers. Dust jacket price 5.00. INSCRIBED by MILLER on the half-title page. Housed in a custom-made collectors slipcase. "Written during the same period as "Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn" and banned in the English-speaking world upon its publication in Paris in 1936 "Black Spring" is one of Miller's finest achievements and arguably his most distinguished book from a stylistic point of view. It consists of a number of linked episodes describing some of the crucial years in his personal saga from recollections of his childhood in Brooklyn to his time in Paris. Imbued with the spirit of Miller's life experience "Black Spring" is a linguistic tour de force which brings together the American author's greatest merits." "In the second book of Miller's first trilogy 'Black Spring' Miller abandons the novelistic pretense of telling any single story and instead creates a kind of collage of sketches portraits vignettes essays and poems-in-prose that once again combine to reveal the author in all his prodigious originality. This is the book if the uninitiated reader can suspend the desire for conventional narrative and surrender to the spell of Miller's voice that may be the best one-volume introduction to the author's work as it represents multiple aspects of his literary persona. Perhaps the most marvelously disorienting section of Black Spring is "Into the Night Life . . . A Coney Island of the Mind" a 30-page dreamlike prose fantasia whose wild inventiveness richness of imagination and gorgeous sentences are breathtaking. Here is Miller cut loose beyond the stench of rotten circumstance and the arbitrary limits of "making sense" into a realm of ecstatic revelation the writer as clown working the high wire without a net performing for nothing so much as his own delight. The joy with which this acrobatic prose is infused is dangerously contagious. I say dangerous because attempted with less virtuosity this kind of writing liberating as it may feel is likely to result in an utterly unreadable mess. But why not Miller might answer make a mess Life itself is a mess and isn't art obliged to be faithful to life " - Stephen Kessler. Grove Press hardcover books
19394280Paris: The Obelisk Press 1939. First edition. Fine. Second issue with all prices cancelled. A Fine bright example of this controversial title completely unopened. Complete with the errata slip tipped in before the title page. <br/><br/>Henry Miller's controversial and exuberant account of his time in New York City working for the aptly named Cosmodemonic Telegraph Company. The book was published in France in 1939 by Obelisk Press and like Tropic of Cancer before it was banned in the United States. However Miller's books would be smuggled in and he established a considerable underground reputation before 1961 when the ban was lifted. Many significant writers have been fans of Miller including Lawrence Durrell - who also counted him as a close friend - and George Orwell who said Miller was "the only imaginative prose-writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past." Like much of Miller's work the book draws strongly and literally on his own life experience and is semi-autobiographical. "The pace and jagged pattern of the action offer a superb entertainment that brings in as it goes jeremiads casual lyrics and sudden reaches toward the spiritual core of life" New York Times Review. Fine. The Obelisk Press unknown books
19123010681912. 6-1/2 pp. One page labeled "A". Folio. In a half brown morocco slipcase and chemise. 6-1/2 pp. One page labeled "A". Folio. In part "has been nominated by his party for the primary but once. He has been elected by the people but once."<br/><br/><br/>In 1912 Miller approached TR with a project for the Centennial of the War of 1812 and was rebuffed. Presumably this piece was written before that. unknown books
2010135130Ann Arbor MI: Legacy Press 2010; 8vo. full leather clamshell box; 528 pages 374 illustrations. <br /><br /><i>Books Will Speak Plain</i> is published at a time when the historical book is at risk of being ignored put away and forgotten. This handbook combines an overview of the history of the codex with basic information about many of the materials and structures found on historical bindings. The book also includes description-survey guidelines and is supported by a variety of appendices. The book's focus on primarily non-luxury bindings adds depth to an often-neglected segment of the history of bookbinding. <br /><br /> This copy is signed by the author and bound in a full artist-binding by Don Etherington bookbinder and former director of Conservation at both the Library of Congress and the Harry Ransom Center Austin TX. Both covers have been bound in a full crushed moracco binding with leather onlays. The onlays have been stamped in blind using fleuron tooling patterns and the front cover has the title of the book in the center stamped in gilt. The pastedowns and endpapers are created using handmade decorated pastepapers. Handmade silk headbands. Top edge stained silver. Signed by the binder on the rear pastedown. The book is housed in a custom cloth-covered boards clamshell box with a leather spine label with the author and title stamped in gilt. <br /><br /> Preservation is at the heart of <i>Books Will Speak Plain</i>. We have already lost too many historical bindings because their importance was not understood and appreciated. This book is a call to action to urge custodians of every kind of historical book collection public and private to assess the physical character of the historical bindings in their care and record the changes that have accrued to those bindings during their passage through time. <br /><br /> This book is a resource that can be used to recognize binding variations that have long been overlooked and to document such bindings for future scholars. All bibliophiles including book-binders curators private collectors librarians catalogers antiquarian book-sellers scholars of the book and conservators will find this an invaluable reference. <i>Books Will Speak Plain</i> is also a useful textbook for students enrolled in academic courses in the history of the book and book conservation and in practical bookbinding. <br /><br />Photography: J. Wayne Jones - Drawings: Pamela Spitzmueller. Legacy Press books
