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1935928P36Paris: The Obelisk Press 1935. Leather. Very Good. 7.5" by 5.5". None. A Zaehnsdorf bound second edition of Henry Miller's controversial novel published by the Obelisk Press in Paris. The second edition of this brilliant and controversial work strikingly bound by Zaehnsdorf. Five hundred copies of this second edition were printed. Miller's 'Tropic' novels were first published by the Obelisk Press in Paris during the 1930s due to the obscenity laws in the States at the time which resulted in the works being banned in the country.'Tropic of Cancer' is a novel regarded now as an important work in twentieth century literature notorious for its candid sexuality.By Arthur Miller an American author who was known for breaking with the literary forms of the day and developing a new type of semi-autobiographical novel.This edition with a preface by Anais Nin who helped to edit the book and assisted financially in the publication of the work. In a half crushed morocco binding with cloth to the boards bound by Zaehnsdorf. Externally generally smart with light marks to the boards and spine including a damp stain to the tail of the boards and spine. Fading to the head of the boards and to the spine. Minor rubbing to the spine. Front hinge is starting but firm. Internally firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and clean. Very Good The Obelisk Press hardcover
1960959T40Paris: The Obelisk Press 1960. Paperback. Very Good. 7" by 4.5". None. A smart softcover of this copy of Henry Miller's autobiographical novel Tropic of Cancer. An autobiographical novel that is best known as "notorious for its candid sexuality" with the resulting social controversy considered responsible for the rise of free speech in literature. Miller wrote the book between 1930 and 1934 during his nomadic life in Paris and it was first published in 1934 by the Obelisk Press but this edition was banned in the United States. Written by Henry Valentine Miller an American novelist short story writer and essayist who broke with existing literary forms and developed a new type of semi-autobiographical novel. His writing style blended character study social criticism philosophical reflection stream of consciousness explicit language sex surrealist free association and mysticism. With a preface from Angela Anais Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell a French-born American diarist essayist novelist and writer of short stories and erotica. Her journals account numerous affairs with men and women including those with psychoanalyst Otto Rank and writer Henry Miller both of whom profoundly influenced her writing. In the original paper wraps. Externally smart with light wear and sunning to the extremities. Minor loss to the head and tail of the spine with small closed tears to the joints. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. Very Good The Obelisk Press paperback
1994Q-0802131786Grove Press 1994-01-06. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Grove Press paperback
19682080302106802103Kadokawashoten 1968. Soft Cover. Fine. Size: Paperback 278 pages Number of books: 1 Kadokawashoten paperback
19752325Chicago: Swallow Press 1975. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. pp. xviii 270. Small 8vo. Quarter black cloth over bright paper boards white lettering to the spine and facsimile signature of Nin to the front board. Lightest shelfwear slight spine slant ffep has been neatly excised contents remain bright clean and unmarked with tight sound binding; very good in very good lightly rubbed price-clipped dustjacket now housed in protective mylar cover. Overall very good. <br/><br/>"In this book Anais Nin speaks with warmth and urgency on those themes which have always been clostest to her: relationship creativity the struggle for wholeness the unveiling of women the artist as magician women reconstructing the world moving from the dream outward and experiencing our lives to the fullest extent possible." Swallow Press hardcover
1433137119.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
14652Oser Press 1973. Near Fine. Silver cardboard box bottom with plastic top is intact and showing a bit of wear. Loose bound collection of 8 poems by Lynne Honickman each accompanied by an original signed print by Louis Kahn and others. Introduction by Anais Nin is also signed. This is #36 of an edition of 120. Truly an unusual and rare item. Oser Press unknown
20162-2759225097Quae éditions 2016. Paperback. New. 200 pages. French language. 8.19x5.67x0.39 inches. Quae éditions paperback
9999318088.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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2843370817.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1973Q-0385074123Doubleday 1973-06-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Doubleday paperback
SB16B-01833powerHouse Books. Collectible - Good. SIGNED/INSCRIBED! New York : PowerHouse Books 2004. 1st edition. Sm 4to. 103pp. Illus. Inscribed by author on title page. Very Good book. erotic painting feminism in art Inquire if you need further information. powerHouse Books unknown
51-6227Big Sur Calif.: 1980. Smaller version of the poster with ink hand lettering beneath the image: Henry Miller/Memorial Library. 17 x 11inches. .Jerry Kamstra January 2 1935 – November 26 2019 was an American novelist poet artist and community organizer. Kamstra is best known for his novels Weed: Adventures Of A Dope Smuggler and The Frisco Kid. Kamstra was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts NEA Writers Grant in 1978 for his novel General Popo: A Novel of Mexico. He was a prominent artist denizen and “Beatnik†of San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood in the late 1950s and early 1960s as chronicled in The Frisco Kid his novel of the Beat Generation. The novel has become a cult classic which literary critic and Kerouac biographer Gerald Nicosia claims is “a Beat masterpiece on par with On The Road.â€Early Life: Jerry Kamstra was born January 2 1935 in Riverside California. Kamstra’s father Richard “Dutch†Kamstra was a Dutch immigrant who made his living as a hard-rock miner spending 50 years working underground. Dutch learned to speak English by reading The Katzenjammer Kids comic strip arriving on a three-masted sailing ship in San Francisco in 1928 from Holland. Dutch became a member of the IWW International Workers of the World as a longshoreman. Dutch moved to southern California and among his first jobs down there was milking cows for author Edgar Rice Burroughs in Tarzana California. Kamstra’s mother Lexie Kamstra was the daughter of a fruit tramp Nettie Cody a distant relative of Buffalo Bill Cody. Jerry had three siblings – two brothers Richard Kamstra and Robert Kamstra; and one sister Bessie Kamstra. Big Sur, Calif.: 1980 unknown
51-6228Big Sur Calif.: 1980. Smaller version of the poster before the printed text beneath the image. 17 x 11inches.Jerry Kamstra January 2 1935 – November 26 2019 was an American novelist poet artist and community organizer. Kamstra is best known for his novels Weed: Adventures Of A Dope Smuggler and The Frisco Kid. Kamstra was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts NEA Writers Grant in 1978 for his novel General Popo: A Novel of Mexico. He was a prominent artist denizen and “Beatnik†of San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood in the late 1950s and early 1960s as chronicled in The Frisco Kid his novel of the Beat Generation. The novel has become a cult classic which literary critic and Kerouac biographer Gerald Nicosia claims is “a Beat masterpiece on par with On The Road.â€Early Life: Jerry Kamstra was born January 2 1935 in Riverside California. Kamstra’s father Richard “Dutch†Kamstra was a Dutch immigrant who made his living as a hard-rock miner spending 50 years working underground. Dutch learned to speak English by reading The Katzenjammer Kids comic strip arriving on a three-masted sailing ship in San Francisco in 1928 from Holland. Dutch became a member of the IWW International Workers of the World as a longshoreman. Dutch moved to southern California and among his first jobs down there was milking cows for author Edgar Rice Burroughs in Tarzana California. Kamstra’s mother Lexie Kamstra was the daughter of a fruit tramp Nettie Cody a distant relative of Buffalo Bill Cody. Jerry had three siblings – two brothers Richard Kamstra and Robert Kamstra; and one sister Bessie Kamstra. Big Sur, Calif.: 1980 unknown
51-6225Big Sur Calif.: 1980. Original intaglio version of the poster. 23 x 16.5 inches. Large format version. fold marks.Jerry Kamstra January 2 1935 – November 26 2019 was an American novelist poet artist and community organizer. Kamstra is best known for his novels Weed: Adventures Of A Dope Smuggler and The Frisco Kid. Kamstra was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts NEA Writers Grant in 1978 for his novel General Popo: A Novel of Mexico. He was a prominent artist denizen and “Beatnik†of San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood in the late 1950s and early 1960s as chronicled in The Frisco Kid his novel of the Beat Generation. The novel has become a cult classic which literary critic and Kerouac biographer Gerald Nicosia claims is “a Beat masterpiece on par with On The Road.â€Early Life: Jerry Kamstra was born January 2 1935 in Riverside California. Kamstra’s father Richard “Dutch†Kamstra was a Dutch immigrant who made his living as a hard-rock miner spending 50 years working underground. Dutch learned to speak English by reading The Katzenjammer Kids comic strip arriving on a three-masted sailing ship in San Francisco in 1928 from Holland. Dutch became a member of the IWW International Workers of the World as a longshoreman. Dutch moved to southern California and among his first jobs down there was milking cows for author Edgar Rice Burroughs in Tarzana California. Kamstra’s mother Lexie Kamstra was the daughter of a fruit tramp Nettie Cody a distant relative of Buffalo Bill Cody. Jerry had three siblings – two brothers Richard Kamstra and Robert Kamstra; and one sister Bessie Kamstra. Big Sur, Calif.: 1980 unknown
51-6229Big Sur Calif.: 1980. Smaller version of the poster wiith text about the two Henry's beneath the image. 15.5 x 11inches.Jerry Kamstra January 2 1935 – November 26 2019 was an American novelist poet artist and community organizer. Kamstra is best known for his novels Weed: Adventures Of A Dope Smuggler and The Frisco Kid. Kamstra was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts NEA Writers Grant in 1978 for his novel General Popo: A Novel of Mexico. He was a prominent artist denizen and “Beatnik†of San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood in the late 1950s and early 1960s as chronicled in The Frisco Kid his novel of the Beat Generation. The novel has become a cult classic which literary critic and Kerouac biographer Gerald Nicosia claims is “a Beat masterpiece on par with On The Road.â€Early Life: Jerry Kamstra was born January 2 1935 in Riverside California. Kamstra’s father Richard “Dutch†Kamstra was a Dutch immigrant who made his living as a hard-rock miner spending 50 years working underground. Dutch learned to speak English by reading The Katzenjammer Kids comic strip arriving on a three-masted sailing ship in San Francisco in 1928 from Holland. Dutch became a member of the IWW International Workers of the World as a longshoreman. Dutch moved to southern California and among his first jobs down there was milking cows for author Edgar Rice Burroughs in Tarzana California. Kamstra’s mother Lexie Kamstra was the daughter of a fruit tramp Nettie Cody a distant relative of Buffalo Bill Cody. Jerry had three siblings – two brothers Richard Kamstra and Robert Kamstra; and one sister Bessie Kamstra. Big Sur, Calif.: 1980 unknown
51-6226Big Sur Calif.: 1980. Contemporary reproduction of the original intaglio version of the poster. 24 x 17 inches. Large format version. fold marks.Jerry Kamstra January 2 1935 – November 26 2019 was an American novelist poet artist and community organizer. Kamstra is best known for his novels Weed: Adventures Of A Dope Smuggler and The Frisco Kid. Kamstra was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts NEA Writers Grant in 1978 for his novel General Popo: A Novel of Mexico. He was a prominent artist denizen and “Beatnik†of San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood in the late 1950s and early 1960s as chronicled in The Frisco Kid his novel of the Beat Generation. The novel has become a cult classic which literary critic and Kerouac biographer Gerald Nicosia claims is “a Beat masterpiece on par with On The Road.â€Early Life: Jerry Kamstra was born January 2 1935 in Riverside California. Kamstra’s father Richard “Dutch†Kamstra was a Dutch immigrant who made his living as a hard-rock miner spending 50 years working underground. Dutch learned to speak English by reading The Katzenjammer Kids comic strip arriving on a three-masted sailing ship in San Francisco in 1928 from Holland. Dutch became a member of the IWW International Workers of the World as a longshoreman. Dutch moved to southern California and among his first jobs down there was milking cows for author Edgar Rice Burroughs in Tarzana California. Kamstra’s mother Lexie Kamstra was the daughter of a fruit tramp Nettie Cody a distant relative of Buffalo Bill Cody. Jerry had three siblings – two brothers Richard Kamstra and Robert Kamstra; and one sister Bessie Kamstra. Big Sur, Calif.: 1980 unknown