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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
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
3725006<p>Likely Grand Rapids Michigan c.1942. Original illustration art and related printer’s proofs. Twenty-three items. Some edge toning and light handling to illustration boards; scattered wear; overall very good.</p> <p> </p> <p>A sizeable collection of original artwork by Kreigh Taylor Collins 1908–1974 with the printer’s illustration proofs for the boy’s adventure story The Lone Woodsman by Warren Hastings Miller c.1879–1960 published in 1942 by The John C. Winston Co. of Philadelphia a noted publisher of children’s and young adult books. </p> <p>Inventory</p> <p>1. 19 artist’s drawing boards with 24 pen & ink illustrations for Chapters 1–6 and 8–13 each 20 x 15 inches. <br /> 2. 1 proof sheet with multiple illustrations 13 x 19 inches. <br /> 3. 1 title-page proof sheet 14 x 10¼ inches. <br /> 4. 1 title-page mock-up 16½ x 12½ inches. <br /> 5. 1 bound set of progressive color proofs for the dust jacket 12½ x 19 inches.</p> <p>Born in Davenport Iowa Collins studied art at the Cincinnati Art Academy the Cleveland Art School and in Paris focusing on landscape painting. He began his career as an illustrator for advertising agencies in Chicago and Grand Rapids Michigan. In the 1930s Collins worked on newspaper illustrations and painted murals in Texas and landscapes in Taos New Mexico. From the late 1940s to the early 1970s he created syndicated comic strips such as “Mitzi McCoy†“Kevin the Bold†and the semi-autobiographical “Up Anchor.†He also wrote and illustrated juvenile biographies and adventure stories like The Lone Woodsman.</p> <p>Warren Hastings Miller c.1879–1960 the author was Field and Stream’s editor from 1910 to 1918. He contributed to magazines like Boy’s Life and American Boy. He wrote numerous juvenile adventure stories with this being “his most popular book by far†according to his son. The story is about an unplanned wilderness survival experience. Set in Upper Ontario Canada the 19-year-old protagonist Dan Pickett sets out alone with his mongrel dog Pepper to live with the Cree Indians for a summer and gather information for his ethnologist father. When his canoe swamps he must use his wits skills and his dog to survive.</p> <p>This archive’s original drawings by Kreigh Collins primarily depict Dan Pickett and Pepper together in the wilderness and facing adversity: portaging a canoe dog-sledding canoeing in dangerous waters hunting a charging deer confronting a wolf and more. One larger drawing is a two-page spread of Dan and Pepper hunting with the right side reproduced on the cover of the book’s cloth binding. Smaller vignette illustrations used as head- and tail-pieces and small text illustrations show Pepper and/or Dan with various camping articles or Native American items such as snowshoes bows and arrows moccasins a handmade baited animal trap and a wigwam.</p> <p>Accompanying Collins’s original artwork is a large-format mock-up of the title page a reduced printed proof of the same and a single printed proof sheet depicting 18 vignette illustrations reduced for publication. There is also a set of seven printed progressive color proofs for the book’s dust jacket printed by the Philadelphia-Weeks Engraving Company. These proofs show cyan magenta yellow and black separations as well as built-up combinations and the final four-color dust jacket.</p> <p>A pleasing collection of original artwork and printer’s proofs for a popular adventure book for young adults illustrated by a prolific American painter comic strip creator and graphic artist.</p> <p>Refs. Grand Rapids Public Museum Collections : Individual : Collins Kreigh and Kreigh Collins Cartoons An inventory of his cartoons at Syracuse University both accessed online. “Warren H. Miller†obituary The Boston Globe Boston Massachusetts Friday July 15 1960 p14. See Camp and Trail - X - RSS accessed online.</p> unknown
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
1915140944358New York: George H. Doran Company 1915. First Edition. Very Good. First edition first printing. Bound in publisher's canary cloth with blue paper title label to upper board and spine lettered in blue. Very Good with soiling to cloth and wear to fore edge of upper board. Pages toned and with a faint cigar smoke odor. <p>A collection of satirical works and poetry promoting the suffrage movement and broken down into five sections: the Treacherous Texts Campaign Material Women's Sphere A Masque of Teachers and The Unconscious Suffragists. Each section varied in the style of writing employed by Miller from poetry to prose to lists to a short play but all of the writings promoted feminist and suffragist themes and ideals. Many of the poems previously appeared individually in the New York Tribune. George H. Doran Company unknown
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. 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
1947140942294New York: Reynal & Hitchcock 1947. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition. Bound in publisher's original pale green cloth with spine lettered in navy blue. Near Fine with slight sunning to cloth along top edge. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with edge wear and a scrape to the front spine joint though in nicer shape than normally found. The author's elusive first published play preceded by a non-fiction book and a novel. Reynal & Hitchcock unknown
194824353New York: Viking Press 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. orange boards front cover illustrated. Very good. 139 pages. 25.5 x 14 cm. The quintessential theater production considered a landmark of American theater. Signed on title page in ink by Arthur Miller. It was the first play to win all three major drama awards upon its opening in 1949: the New York Drama Critics Circle Award the Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Spine slightly faded. Viking Press hardcover
1949AM021bNew York: The Viking Press 1949 First edition first printing. Publisher's orange cloth with an illustration of the play's stage setting and the spine lettering in brown pictorial endpapers illustrated with a reproduced drawing of the play's stage setting by the play's original set designer Jo Mielziner; original first issue dust jacket with illustration of the protagonist Willy Loman designed by Joseph Hirsch. Near fine book with light toning to spine and edges and slight lean to spine; very good unclipped dust jacket with light wear to edges lightly nicked corners a bit of chipping to spine ends. Overall a vibrant copy without any fading. Death of a Salesman is Miller's best-known play about Willy Loman an aging traveling salesman who struggles financially and emotionally after losing his job. The plot was largely influenced by Miller's own experience as part of a prosperous immigrant family who achieved the American Dream only to be later devastated by the Great Depression. The story is told in stream-of-consciousness style with Loman drifting between the reality of his shabby apartment and the idyllic memories of a more prosperous yesteryear. This literary technique is achieved in the theater setting through Loman's conversation with characters who exist only his imagination as indicated by the play's half-title. Death of a Salesman debuted on Broadway at the Morosco Theatre in New York on February 10 1949 starring Lee J. Cobb as Willy Loman and under the direction of Elia Kazan. A literary and theatrical success Death of a Salesman won both the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play in 1949. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Dust Jacket Included. New York: The Viking Press hardcover
2211009New York: Penguin Books 1984. first Thus. softcover. Near fine. An extraordinary copy of this first edition thus the first printing featuring a cover photograph of Dustin Hoffman appearing in a 1985 made-for-television production of this classic. This copy is inscribed to Granville Ames an actor in the cast by the author the director and other actors in the production including Dustin Hoffman who has written "Thank you Granville for helping to make this experience unique Dustin Hoffman." Also signed by Arthur Miller and signed and dated by John Malkovich which was the part for which Mr. Ames was the understudy. The production was nominated for 10 Emmys and four Golden Globes and won three Emmys and one Golden Globe. Included is a handwritten note from the actor Granville Ames describing how he obtained this book and the signatures during the winter of 1985 when he was on the set every day and he writes so was Arthur Miller. Penguin Books unknown
194926577New York:: The Viking Press 1949. First edition. publisher's cloth in dust jacket. Just about fine in a bright jacket with a 2" clean cut to the upper right corner of the front panel and some slight use to the extremities of the spine. 8vo. The Viking Press, hardcover
1911261052New York: The Review of Reviews 1911. First edition. Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65 with text by many special authorities. 10 vols. 4to. Original blue cloth spines titled in gilt upper covers stamped in blind t.e.g. Near fine set without dust jackets. First edition. Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65 with text by many special authorities. 10 vols. 4to. One of the most sought after works on the Civil War containing many previously unpublished photographs and drawing upon the extensive Eldridge Collection of Mathew Brady photographs. The Review of Reviews unknown
1943141030New York: Mutual Music Society 1943. First edition of the great swing-era American jazz musician's guide to orchestral arranging. Royal octavo original publisher's cloth illustrated. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper "Sincerely Glenn Miller." In very good condition. American big band founder and composer Glenn Miller performed and recorded with his groups Glenn Miller and His Orchestra and the Major Glenn Miller Army Air Forces Orchestra before and during World War II when Miller was an officer in the US Army Air Forces. Glenn Miller and His Orchestra was one of the most popular and successful bands of the 20th century and the big band era and the best-selling recording band from 1939 to 1942. Their best-selling records include Miller's iconic theme song – "Moonlight Serenade" – and the first gold record ever made "Chattanooga Choo Choo." Mutual Music Society hardcover
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
1970302463Albuquerque: Loujon Press 1970. Limited. hardcover. fine/fine. Photo illustrations; 37 pages of facsimile holograph text. 4to spiral bound card boards with blue & gold foil wrapper. Albuquerque: Loujon Press 1970. Limited Edition.<br/> <br/> Edition G: 385 signed copies. This one is signed and dated May 1 1980.<br/> <br/> Loujon Press unknown
64052New York: Playboy Press 1975. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Large quarto. Spine a little faded else fine in silk covered boards in slipcase lacking the dust jacket. One of 500 numbered copies Signed by the author this copy is designated as "Copy P" and in addition to being signed is additionally Inscribed by the author to Sydney Omarr: "For Sydney Omarr. Cheers! 1/13/72." Omarr was the "astrologer to the stars" and published a daily horoscope that appeared in more than 200 newspapers. His books of horoscopes sold over 50 million copies. He started out during the Second World War at the age of 17 when his predictions of horse races boxing matches and other sporting events were broadcast on Armed Forces Radio. Omarr and Miller became close friends sharing the same tastes. Omarr liked to surround himself with beautiful women and was the personal adviser to Jayne Mansfield Rita Hayworth Kim Novak and Mae West among others. Omarr wrote a book on Miller Henry Miller: His World of Urania and Miller wrote the introduction to Sydney Omarr's Astrological Guide to 1973 and the liner notes to the record album Presenting Sydney Omarr. A very nice association. Playboy Press hardcover
19342110009Paris France: Obelisk Press 1934. first. hardcover. good. First edition. Preface by Anais Nin. Book is rebound. Book good copyright page is missing wear bookplate attached to front paste-down front and rear gutter have black tape verso of front free end paper has previous owner's name and date parts of pages 321-323 were repaired verso of title page has a number stamp. Housed in custom-made slipcase. Obelisk Press unknown
1969140942893New York: Bleecker Street Press 1969. First Edition. Good. First edition. Signed on the title page by author using her real name and inscribed to a former owner. Bound in publisher's original yellow wraps printed in brown. Good. Soiled and worn with heavy wear to joints and outer paper layer of spine mostly perished removing spine titles. Lean to binding. Pages sporadically soiled rusted paperclip impression to preliminary matter and former owner name to title page.<br /> <br /> <p>This historical novel based on the lives of 19th century American folk artist Mary Ann Willson and her lover Miss Brundidge became an iconic lesbian book of the 1970s when McGraw-Hill republished it as Patience and Sarah. It won the first Stonewall Book Award in 1971. Bleecker Street Press unknown
1846157230Fredonia NY: Printed by W. McKinstry & Co. 1846. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. xi 378 p. 21 cm. Half black leather with brown cloth gold trim. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Black cloth-covered slipcase. A bit of wear to spine. Soiling and dampstains. Rear pastedown scuffed with small binder's label for Brown Bros. Toronto. <br/><br/>Title continues: "Comprising Incidents of the Canadian Rebellion in 1838 Trial of the Author in Canada and Subsequent Appearance Before Her Majesty's Court of Queen's Bench in London Imprisonment in England and Transportation to Van Dieman's Land. Also An Account of the Horrible Sufferings Endured by Ninety Political Prisoners During a Residence of Six Years in That Land of British Slavery Together With Sketches of the Island Its History Productions Inhabitants &c. &c." Linus W. Miller a 22-year-old American lawyer was transported to Van Dieman's Land as a state prisoner after becoming involved in the 1837 Canadian rebellion. He arrived on the Canton in Hobart Town in 1840 but returned to the US after his pardon and wrote this book. Provides an in-person account of the convict system in Australia and Tasmania. He was one of nine political exiles who published accounts of their experiences. Title page states "Slaves can breathe in England." Dedicated To William H. Seward. TPL 2790. Howes M613. Sabin 49037. Ferguson 4349. Cohen 4305. Printed by W. McKinstry & Co. hardcover
2001131j0862Great Britain: Paper Tiger. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. 1855858843 . Signed and inscribed by editors Ron Miller and Fred Durant upon custom bookplate facing title page. "Chesley Bonestell was without a doubt the most influential space artist of all time. His immensely popular art was in large part responsible for sparking public enthusiasm for space exploration without which the US space program would never have left the ground. This glorious collection of over 300 illustrations covering all facets of Bonestell's art and career includes a full-length biographical commentary." - dust jacket. "Chesley's paintings had a colossal impact on my thinking about space travel." - Arthur C. Clarke. "I didn't know what other worlds looked like until I saw Bonestell's paintings of the solar system." - Carl Sagan. 256 glossy pages predominately illustrated in vibrant color. Index. List of sources. Book clean tight bright and unmarked with moderate external wear. Slight lean to spine. Light wear to complete dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A special copy of this the definitive book on Bonestell's art. 31 x 24cm. 1.6kg.; Color Illustrations; 4to; Signed by Editors . Paper Tiger hardcover
1869304936Philadelphia: William Miller 1869. Chromolithograph. 24 x 21 3/4 inches.<br/> <br/> Wonderful commemorative print of a bronze medallion also made by William Miller. Artist proof printed in the inner circle to look as though it was signed by the artist. Meant to be cut to a circle and framed to resemble a real medallion it includes a striking five pointed star border. Some scuffs and toning but otherwise in good condition. Creative side profiles of Washington Father 1789 Lincoln Saviour -of the Union and Grant Preserver -newly elected President.<br/> <br/> William Miller unknown
