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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
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
1929426598New York State 1929. Unbound. Near Fine. Photographically illustrated broadside on card stock with text in black and red. 11" x 14". A trifle soiled and two tiny barely visible stains near fine. A broadside advertising a barnstorming appearance of Captain John M. Miller from Poughkeepsie New York. Miller was a test pilot for the Marine Corp's flying J2F Ducks and also a test pilot for Pitcairn flying autogiros the forerunner of the helicopter. He flew the first air mail service off a roof in Camden New Jersey to Philadelphia for Rickenbacker Eastern Airlines. OCLC locates no copies. unknown
1930603927San Francisco: The Roxburghe Club 1930. Unbound. Fine. Event program. Illustrated with a 4" x "6 gelatin silver photograph of Joaquin Miller tipped-in. One small quarto sheet folded to make four pages. Measuring 5½" x 8½" closed. Fine. A handsome invitation to "Favorite Authors Night" at the Roxburghe Club with member presentations on George Moore Frank Norris Cervantes Bliss Carman James Boswell and Charles Darwin. The guest speaker Harr Wagner spoke on "The Lady Friends of Joaquin Miller." Event information is printed on page four; the interior showcases the photograph and this printed text: "Like Sir Walter Raleigh Cincinnatus was— 'a man of Nervous address who won the hearts of ladies to the last favor inclusive.' The Roxburghe Club unknown
196097846Philadelphia / New York: J.B. Lippincott Company 1960. 1960. Very good. - Quarto 10-1/2 inches high by 9 inches wide. Hardcover bound in pictorial turquoise cloth with a drawing of Scrappy on the front cover and titled in black on the spine in a pictorial pink & black unclipped dust wrapper. The spine has an angled lean that is typical with this title. There is some minor rubbing with a tiny chip along the top edge of the dust jacket's rear panel. 28 pages with pink black and white illustrations by Jane Miller many full page. Near fine. <p>First edition having no additional printings stated.<p>SIGNED BY THE POET JOHN CIARDI. Philadelphia / New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, (1960). hardcover
18095768London: James Moyes. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1809. First Edition. Three-Quarter Leathe. Red Leather spine with raised bands black label. Some damage to leather at edges & corners. Marbled boards.Hinges & covers are tight. Owner's name on fep dated 1884 and label inside front cover.; 5 1/2x7 1/2" . James Moyes unknown
1944589966Berkeley California: Circle 1944. Softcover. Near Fine. Periodical. Cover art by Jean Varda. Illustrated with black and white plates. Pictorial wrappers. Staples oxidized rubbing and sunning on the spine very good. Includes: "The All-Seeing" by Anais Nin "Varda: The Master Builder" by Henry Miller "Where Is Obscenity" by Theodore Schroeder. With additional contributions by: Arthur Ginzel Wallace Fowlie Lee Ver Duft Bern Porter George Leite and more. Circle unknown
193652548London: Victor Gollancz 1936. First edition small 4to 142 pp. 73 wood engravings in the text. Cloth d.w. rather marked with some edge wear. London: Victor Gollancz unknown
2001036557Washington DC: Island Press. 2001. A biography of Gifford Pinchot: conservationist first chief of the U.S. Forest Service and Governor of Pennsylvania. Signed by Miller. Mild foxing to the edges of the text block else fine in a fine dust jacket. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Island Press hardcover
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
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
19501105Reading PA: Fantasy Press 1950. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Edd Cartier. 5 1/4 X 7 3/4 Inches. 225 PP. Stated 'First Edition' on the copyright page. Original price of $3.00 intact on front flap of dust jacket. Original publisher green cloth binding. Slight rubbing to DJ edges and folds. An extremely well preserved copy overall. Fantasy Press hardcover
0578699494.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
2004369802Meadow Run Press 2004. Privately printed in an edition of 300 copies none offered for retail sale. Illustrated by Gordon Allen and from photographs. xiiv iv 216 4 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Green cloth. Board slipcase with pictorial onlay. As New. Privately printed in an edition of 300 copies none offered for retail sale. Illustrated by Gordon Allen and from photographs. xiiv iv 216 4 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Centennial history of the club located near State College Penna. Meadow Run Press unknown
1942505010London: The Fortune Press 1942. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Small octavo. 79 1 pp. Samuel French Morse's copy with his bookplate on front flyleaf. Topedge trifle foxed else fine in somewhat toned and soiled very good dust jacket with the spine lettering sunned and a pinpoint hole on the cover. The jacket on white paper printed in red is an unrecorded variant not noted by Edelstein "yellow dust jacket printed in red". Contains the first book appearance of poems by Wallace Stevens Edelstein B29 binding variant I a "long" short story by Conrad Aiken Bonner B51 and contributions by Henry Miller Lawrence Durrell. and many others. The Fortune Press hardcover
1942548734London: The Fortune Press 1942. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Small octavo. 79 1 pp. Unrecorded red cloth over boards. Boards bowed else near fine in a modestly soiled very good dust jacket heavily toned at the spine and edges. Contains the first book appearance of poems by Wallace Stevens Edelstein B29 binding variant I a "long" short story by Conrad Aiken Bonner B51 and contributions by Henry Miller Lawrence Durrell. and many others. The Fortune Press hardcover
