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1994607683Orlando Florida: StandishBooks 1994. Hardcover. Fine. First edition trade issue. Compiled edited introduced and published by Craig Peter Standish. Thick octavo. xxxviii 677pp. Illustrated. Red cloth gilt. One of 867 copies in red cloth of 1000 copies total. Contributions by Lawrence Durrell Erica Jong John Lennon Norman Mailer Anaïs Nin John Cowper Powys William Carlos Williams and many others. StandishBooks hardcover
19938123Paris: Alyscamps Press 1993. NO. 3 OF 5 NUMBERED PRESENTATION COPIES FROM THE PUBLISHER 8vo pp. xxi v 1022 4 51 double-sided plates. Two photographs in pockets to pastedowns. Original brown imitation leather cloth spine and front board lettered and blocked in gilt top edge red matching card slipcase. A fine copy. Limitation sheet tipped in to rear flyleaf numbered inscribed and dated 27 September 1993. An extremely scarce issue of this already-limited-edition bibliography dubbed ‘private edition’ to the boards and unmentioned in the limitation-leaf to the rear which records 4 other states of its 1000 copies. This copy is presented ‘to my dear friend Ron Stadler who has nurtured my interest in Miller and given me constant friendship and support over the years’. Alyscamps Press hardcover
201128357<p>New York:: Arcade Publishing 2011. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright dust jacket. Miller lived in Paris from 1930 to 1939 and during this period he went from a "middle-aged vagrant" to one of the most renowned and notorious authors who would jolt a generation with two seminal works--Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn. While in Paris he met and became a close friend of Brassai who he quickly sensed was a kindred spirit and thus was born a life-long friendship that Brassai here documents from unpublished letters recollected conversations and references to Miller's writings. This is Brassai's intimate account of Miller's self-discovery and coming of age as a writer and thinker.</p> Arcade Publishing, hardcover
1961329829Hamburg: Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag 1961. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Near fine with a small water stain along the top edge pages a little age toned. Inscribed by Henry Miller. Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag unknown
198033418Paris: Handshake Editions 1980. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Signed by Authors. Soft covered larger true First Edition. This is the large format size Limited Edition 8 1/2" x 11" 1980 version of this collection of reviews and fond remembrances of Henry Miller following his death with contributions from George Orwell Rebecca West James Campbell and Blaise Cendrars amongst others. <br /> <br /> This Rare copy is inscribed by Jim Haynes to the Montreal author Don Bell. <br /> "1 May '83 Paris<br /> Don- It's nice to know you like this- Jim"<br /> <br /> The front cover is beginning to come away from the spine with some slight toning but otherwise in quite good condition for a softbound Handshake edition. Handshake Editions unknown
198231264Paris: Handshake Editions 1982 1982. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Signed by Authors. Rare Handshake Editions imprint. First Edition. Fine in white wrappers as issued printed in black & Inscribed by Jim Haynes on the title-page to noted Montreal writer & bookman Don Bell. 8vo. 170 pp. Publisher's material laid-in. Shifreen & Jackson as B286b. Handshake Editions, (1982) unknown
19693338New York: Walker/Weatherhill 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Second printing. Henry Miller's copy with numerous annotations and comments in his hand as well as mentions of Hoki the young Japanese cabaret singer he married in 1967. <br/><br/> Walker/Weatherhill hardcover
19633214Grove Press 1963. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Henry Miller's copy. Translated by Richard Martin from the German version by Dr. Franz Kuhn. Grove Press was responsible for bringing much of Miller's previously censored writing to a broader American public. HM's copy with numerous pencil marks in his hand. Offered with: The Fabulous Concubine by Chang Hsin-Hai. Pulp paperback with HM blurb on rear panel. <br/><br/> Grove Press hardcover
1975110487New York: Grove Press Inc 1975. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Introduction by Wallace Fowlie. Slightly cocked with a remainder mark else fine in fine lightly age-toned dustwrapper. Grove Press, Inc hardcover
1966504937Nijmegan Netherlands: Henk van Gelre 1966. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. The first issue has a small mended chip else all seven issues are near fine. Large octavos. Pictorial wrappers. Contains many original contributions by Henry Miller as well as numerous articles about him reproducing photographs of Miller and his contemporaries. For the lot of seven issues. Henk van Gelre unknown
1990247855Edinburgh 1990. Landscape-format monochrome photographic portrait signed "Peter Keen" on the lower right margin dry mounted. 405 x 305 mm. Fine. Landscape-format monochrome photographic portrait signed "Peter Keen" on the lower right margin dry mounted. 405 x 305 mm. Candid portrait photograph of Henry Miller in spectacles and flat cap taken at the 1962 International Writers' Conference held at McEwan Hall Edinburgh. The conference - which was on the subject of "The Novel Today" - was organized by the publisher John Calder and featured seventy writers from twenty countries. The conference gained some notoriety from the argument between Alexander Trocchi and Hugh MacDiarmid the latter calling the former "cosmopolitan scum." Miller along with William Burroughs sided with Trocchi who replied "I am only interested in lesbianism and sodomy."<br /> <br /> The photographer Peter Keen 1928-2009 was commissioned to record the event for THE SUNDAY TIMES. His other notable work includes portraiture - some in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery - and the photographic illustrations to Ted Hughes's RIVER London 1983. unknown
1940218956New York 1940. Published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten 1978 edited by Saul Mauriber. Bust portrait in profile. 1 vols. 35 x 27.7 cm. approx 13-7/8 x 10-7/8 inches. Fine. Verso docketed with holograph notations in pencil giving the name of the sitter date of the photograph and Van Vechten's reference to negative and print "XV Q - 8". Published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten 1978 edited by Saul Mauriber. Bust portrait in profile. 1 vols. 35 x 27.7 cm. approx 13-7/8 x 10-7/8 inches. unknown
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
1971616779New York: Playboy Press / Simon and Schuster 1971. Softcover. Very Good. Publisher's advertisement. Small quarto. Two folio sheets folded and stapled to make eight pages with a conjugate fold-out leaf in the rear. Moderate general wear order form approximately 1/3 leaf removed from the conjugate leaf very good. Advertises Henry Miller's My Life and Times and other titles. This copy notable for having an Autograph Note Signed from Henry Miller on a half-sheet of his Pacific Palisades stationery stapled inside the front cover. The note dated in August 1971 reads: "Dear Sydney - Marvelous to hear you can now also swim. Great! I'm afraid it will be next week before I see you. Three engagements this week. All the best. Henry." The recipient was Sydney Omarr author and astrologer to the rich and famous. Omarr was also the author of Henry Miller: His World of Urania among other titles. Playboy Press / Simon and Schuster unknown
1979381977New York: Stroker 1979. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. 32pp. Stapled wrappers. Near fine with two tears to the lower front wrap with a tiny crease. Limited to 500 copies. An issued dedicated to Henry Miller with his essays letters and illustrations. Stroker unknown
B36792-F-STEFortune Press. Used - Good. London: Fortune Press. No date c.1942. Presumed 1st. Hardcover 12mo 80 pgs. Near very good in a good dust jacket. Light wear to corners light wear and toning to spine ends. Foxing spots to endpapers and to edges of pgs. Contents clean and binding sound. Jacket is edgeworn chipped and toned. American Literature Poetry Criticism Fiction Inquire if you need further information. Fortune Press hardcover
19423207London: Fortune Press 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Henry Miller's copy with a laid in slip of paper quoting Ezra Pound written in HM's hand: "No art ever yet grew into the eyes of the public.". Miller's contribution is taken from The Wisdom of the Heart. Other writers represented include Wallace Stevens and Lawrence Durrell. This copy stamped: "Property of Joytoys". In original yellow dustwrapper lettered in red. <br/><br/> Fortune Press hardcover
194564031Berkeley California: Bern Porter / The Packard Press 1945. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Corners a little worn else a near fine copy lacking the dustwrapper. An unnumbered copy. Signed by Henry Miller. Although not specified as such from the library of the author's friend of many years celebrity-astrologer Sydney Omarr. 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. 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. Provenance available upon request. Bern Porter / The Packard Press hardcover
19459443Berkeley CA: Bern Porter 1945. 1945. Fine. - Octavo light gray boards backed with gray cloth titled in black with an illustration in red on the front cover in a dust wrapper. The binding is lightly bumped. The dust jacket is chipped & lightly soiled with its spine & extremities slightly darkened. Title 3 leaves & 157 pages printed on several different colored stocks. Full-page illustrations in black on white or colored stock. Near fine in a good dust wrapper. <p>First edition.<p>One of 750 copies printed for distribution in 1945. This copy is unnumbered. (Berkeley, CA: Bern Porter, 1945). hardcover
19746270Los Angeles: Nash Publishing 1974. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First Edition inscribed by Henry Miller to his friend the model Twinka wishing her a Merry X'Mas 1974 and Happy New Year 1975. Laid in are 12 slips of pages under the heading "List of Places to be photographed by Bob Snyder" in the hand of Henry Miller. Miller jots down street names and places from his youth. A direct tie-in to this book to Miller's friend Snyder and their collaboration on the documentary they were working on. <br/><br/> Los Angeles: Nash Publishing hardcover
1959342739Paris: no publisher 1959. Softcover. Fine. Magazine. Octavo. 88pp. Fine in bright and fresh condition with original belly band with a tiny scrape on the front and a small nick at the fold. The first issue of this literary magazine with a contribution from Henry Miller "The Durrell of the Black Book days" along with Anaïs Nin Richard Aldington Alfred Perles Frederic J. Temple Edwin Mullins Loys Masson Armand Guibert Elisabeth Janvier Philip Jerome Serge Gavronsky Michael Baldwin and Henri-Louis De La Grange. (no publisher) unknown
19626259Paris: 1962. Hardcover. Very Good. Three volumes about Rimbaud including: Vie d'Arthur Rimbaud. Henri Matarasso and Pierre Petitfils. With a long inscription to Miller from his friend Matarasso. Also: Bonnefoy Yves. Rimbaud par lui-meme. Rimbaud Vivant. Two illustrated books in wraps also from the library of Henry Miller though unmarked as such. <br/><br/> Paris: hardcover
104977William Blake and Co. Edit. 1994, 240x160mm, 139pages, broché. Couverture rabats. Bel exemplaire.
1115791955, 225x140mm, 175pages, broché. Bon état.
1818614Budae Buda: Typis Regiae Universitatis Hungaricae 1818. First edition. Only this volume was published. Published in only 350 copies. Text in Latin and German. In publisher’s blue wrappers. Title vignette on spine. Cover edges and spine worn. Slight foxing sporadically. Overall in good condition. First edition. Only this volume was published. Published in only 350 copies. Text in Latin and German. In publisher’s blue wrappers. Title vignette on spine. 1 leaf frontispiece 1 leaf titlepage; 8 I–XXXII 3 4–384 p. and 4 plates one is a folded hand coloured map. <p><br /> The first Hungarian scientific yearbook however only the first has been published. Published by the Hungarian National Musuem that has been established about 15 years earlier.<br /> <p><p><br /> With a lithograph frontispiece of Archduke Joseph Palatine of Hungary the “Protector’†of the Museum by Jean-Baptist Isabey and Blasius Höfel. With the engraved Hungarian coat of arms on title page and three engraved plates and a map of Rézbánya in Transylvania now: Băița. <br /> <p><p><br /> The majority of the text is inLatin about the Museum and its finance but there are also articles about the numismatic and other collections even a study in German about the Transylvanian town Rézbánya. The last article is a commemoration about Pál Kitaibel 1757–1817 the recently passed Hungarian botanist and chemist who discovered tellurium and who was the co-author of the three-volume comprehensive and beautifully illustrated work on the rare plants of Hungary the “Descriptiones et icones plantarum rariorum Hungariae†1802–1812.<br /> <p>. Typis Regiae Universitatis Hungaricae unknown
