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Miller, Helen Day Hill
George Mason Gentleman Revolutionary
Univ of North Carolina Pr 1975-12-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Univ of North Carolina Pr hardcover
Référence libraire : Q-0807812501 ISBN : 0807812501 9780807812501
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Miller, Helen Hill
George Mason Constitutionalist
paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
Référence libraire : 1931313458.G ISBN : 1931313458 9781931313452
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Miller, Henry
Gliding into the Everglades and Other Essays
Lake Oswego OR: Lost Pleiade Press 1977. Hardcover 76 pages. Near fine. Signed by Miller on colophon 'Presentation Copy' indicated in lieu of numeration. Light edge wear to boards slight bumping to corners else near fine. A one-of-a-kind item handbound only three years before Henry Miller's passing. Lost Pleiade Press hardcover
Référence libraire : 10440 ISBN : 0915270013 9780915270019
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Miller, Heather Ross
Gone a Hundred Miles
New York: Harcourt Brace & World Inc. Near Fine in Very Good dj. c.1968. 2nd printing B. Hardcover. minimal shelfwear only to book; jacket mildly edgeworn a bit scuffed on the front and rear panels. An early novel by this North Carolina-born writer set in the early 1800s about a German doctor who settles in the mountains of North Carolina where his life is complicated by three females: his "delicate French wife" the "barefoot wilful river girl" who becomes his lover and the daughter he fathers by the river girl. . Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. hardcover
Référence libraire : 26003
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Miller, Helen Hill
Greece
Charles Scribners Sons 1967. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Charles Scribners Sons hardcover
Référence libraire : GB000ICRWOWI3N10
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Miller, Henry
Greece
New York: The Viking Press 1964. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. Poor Anne. Poor Anne. Hardcover. 4to. INSCRIBED BY ARTIST on dedication page. Laid in is a letter from the artist to Laurance and Isabel Roberts. L. Roberts was a noted a art director and Orientalist. Blue and white cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Clean interior filled with illustrations many of which are in color. Illustrated dust jacket with black title to spine. Minor wear to edges of jacket. 57 pages. GREECE/061406. The Viking Press hardcover
Référence libraire : 17906
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Miller, Helen Hill
Greece Through the Ages
hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Référence libraire : 0308700392.G ISBN : 0308700392 9780308700390
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Miller, Helen Hill
Greece Through the Ages: As Seen by Travellers from Herodotus to Byron
hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Référence libraire : 0460078372.G ISBN : 0460078372 9780460078375
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Miller, Henry
Greece. Drawings by Anne Poor.
<p>New York:: Viking 1964. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy in a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket. Miller explores his personal perception of the diverse elements of Greece its mystery vigor and warmth that is an apt accompaniment to Anne Poor's drawings.</p> Viking, hardcover
Référence libraire : 26309
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Miller, Helen Hill
GREEK HORIZONS
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1961. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Light edge wear to spine ends two small tears to rear panel. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
Référence libraire : 33707
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MILLER, Henry and Michael Fraenkel
Hamlet
Santurce Puerto Rico: Carrefour 1939. Softcover. Very Good. First edition trade issue. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in. 12mo. 232pp. Printed wrappers. Lower spine has small chip wrappers a bit toned front cover and first few pages of text have short edge tear very good. Shifreen & Jackson A22b 500 copies printed. The bibliographer lists publication date as "June 20 1939" but the review slip which is tipped onto front flyleaf of this copy is dated "Oct. 17 1939 Carrefour unknown
Référence libraire : 470006
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MILLER, Henry and Michael Fraenkel
Hamlet
Santurce Puerto Rico: Carrefour 1939. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition trade issue. 12mo.232pp. Printed wrappers. Spine is faintly creased and a little toning on the wrappers a near fine copy. Shifreen & Jackson A22b: 500 copies printed. Carrefour unknown
Référence libraire : 470005
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Miller, Henry; Fraenkel, Michael
Hamlet
New York: Carrefour 1943. Paperback Octavo. Paperback. Good. wraps 392 pp covers are lightly worn on the edges spine creased <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Standard shipping no tracking / Priority with tracking / Custom quote for large or heavy orders. Carrefour paperback
Référence libraire : 83593
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Miller, Henry; Michael Fraenkel
HAMLET
Santurce: Carrefour 1939. 1st Edition. Wraps. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 1st edition. A Very Good copy. 12mo. 230 pp. Stiff beige wraps with the title on the front panel in red. Light soiling to the wraps. Author's names written on the spine. Internally clean and bright. A Very Good copy. The first volume of the writers' correspondence. The second volume would be published in 1941. . Carrefour unknown
Référence libraire : 012765
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Miller, Henry; Fraenkel, Michael
Hamlet
Santurce PR: Carrefour 1939. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. A nice bright copy of the first volume of correspondence. Paper clip mark and slight rust to rear cover and a few pages in the appendix otherwise unmarked. Size: Octavo 8vo. Text is clean and unmarked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Inventory No: 041142. <br/><br/> Carrefour paperback
Référence libraire : 041142
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Miller, Henry and Michael FRAENKEL
Hamlet
Santurce Puerto Rico: Carrefour 1939. First edition thus Volume I of the "larger correspondence under the same title. 230 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Original cream wrappers printed in red and black. near fine in the original glassine jacket. First edition thus Volume I of the "larger correspondence under the same title. 230 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Carrefour unknown
Référence libraire : 216117
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Miller, Henry and Michael Fraenkel
Hamlet - Volume 2
New York: Carrefour 1941. Signed and inscribed by Michael Fraenkel. This is a collection of letters between the two. Mild foxing and staining to covers spine sunned. Still an uncommon book. Signed. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. Carrefour Paperback
Référence libraire : 3001
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Miller, Henry, and Michael Fraenkel
Hamlet - Volume II
New York: Carrefour. Very Good. 1941. First Edition. Softcover. some external soiling diagonal crease at bottom right corner of front cover spine a little browned with minor tears at spine extremities binding still solid vintage bookseller's label Larry Edmund's sic Book Shop Hollywood on rear pastedown; NOTE that numerous leaves in this copy are unopened at the top edges. Volume II only the first volume having been published in 1939 containing the texts of 17 lengthy letters exchanged between Miller and Fraenkel between July 1936 and October 1938. On the rear endpaper is stated: Printed in Mexico. NOTE that numerous leaves in this volume are unopened at the top edges. . Carrefour paperback
Référence libraire : 25698
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Miller, Henry; Fraenkel, Michael; Harris, Michael
Hamlet _ The Henry Miller - Michael Fraenkel Correspondence
United Kingdom: Carrefour Alyscamps 1997. Paperback Octavo. Staplebound Wraps. Very good. staplebound wraps 28 pp <br /> <br /> <br /> Standard shipping no tracking / Priority with tracking / Custom quote for large or heavy orders. Carrefour Alyscamps unknown
Référence libraire : 81345
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Miller, Henry; Fraenkel, Michael; Harris, Michael
Hamlet _ The Henry Miller - Michael Fraenkel Correspondence
United Kingdom: Carrefour Alyscamps 1997. Paperback Octavo. Staplebound Wraps. Very good. staplebound wraps 28 pp signed by Harris on the title page <br /> <br /> <br /> Standard shipping no tracking / Priority with tracking / Custom quote for large or heavy orders. Carrefour Alyscamps unknown
Référence libraire : 81359
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Miller, Henry Fraenkel, Michael
Hamlet Le Chemin de la Vie
Paris: Correa 1956. Paperback Octavo. Paperback. Good. yellow wraps 459 pp text in French first French edition small tear at bottom of spine. Correa paperback
Référence libraire : P28587
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Miller, Henry (and) Fraenkel, Michael
HAMLET VOLUME II.
CARREFOUR. 1941-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. . Volume two of correspondence. Original wrapper shows minor tanning and rubbing. Pages clean. Signed by Henry Miller on the first page Hollywood Cal. 6/18/41. CARREFOUR. paperback
Référence libraire : mon0003501098
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Miller, Henry/ Fraenkel, Michael
Hamlet Volume 1
Carrefour. Used - Acceptable. Carrefour unknown
Référence libraire : FORT857479
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Miller, Henry; Fraenkel, Michael
Hamlet Volume II
New York: Carrefour 1941. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Wraps. Covers faintly rubbed and dust-soiled; light creasing at spine tips and corners; edges unopened. <br/><br/> Carrefour paperback
Référence libraire : BB3154
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MILLER, Henry and Michael Fraenkel
Hamlet Volume II.
NY: Carrefour 1941. Second edition. 465 pp. Bad stain to top edge water damage ripple to the second half of the text. However the staining is pale except along the top edge where it is dark. Glassine present but very good only with a few chips. All in all a good copy in wrappers but dated 8/9/43 and INSCRIBED by Miller to his early supporter and publisher “For Bern Porter from the amnesiac co-author of the Hamlet saga. With greetings! Henry Miller.†Inside the rear cover is penned by Porter “from the Bern Porter Collection of Contemporary Letters 1963 / Bern Porter.†Shifreen & Jackson A24b. NY: Carrefour unknown
Référence libraire : 46156
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Miller, Henry (and) Fraenkel, Michael
HAMLET VOLUME II.
NY: CARREFOUR. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1941. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. SIGNED by Henry Miller. "Henry Miller. Hollywood 1/18/43" Close to near fine in grey buckram cloth with brown titles on spine. Rebound from the original paper wrappers. Light hint of soiling to edges of cloth Miller signatures from this period are notably uncommon. . CARREFOUR. hardcover
Référence libraire : 306365
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MILLER, Henry and Michael Fraenkel
Hamlet.
Santurce: Carrefour 1939. First trade edition. 229 pp. Three small spots to rear cover else fine in printed wrappers and fine glassine. One of 475 of 500 copies. From the collection of John K. Martin Black Sparrow Press with his ticket inside the rear cover. Shifreen & Jackson A22b. [Santurce]: Carrefour unknown
Référence libraire : 67340
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MILLER, Henry FRAENKEL, Michael
Hamlet.
New York; Santurce Puerto Rico and Mexico:: Carrefour 1939-1941. publisher's printed wrappers. Wrappers soiled with a few small chips and splitting to joints. 8vo. With a friendly inscription by Henry Miller 9/6/44 on the front free endpaper of Vol. II. Carrefour, unknown
Référence libraire : 60284
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Miller, Henry (and) Fraenkel, Michael
HAMLET.
Puerto Rico: Carrefour. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1939. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Near fine in creme-colored printed wrappers. Faint trace of soiling at upper righthand corner of front cover. Spot of darkening at crest of spine. Bookstore sticker at bottom righthand corner of rear cover Laid-into an off-white linen custom slipcase with spine label. One of 500 copies. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 230 pages . Carrefour paperback
Référence libraire : 3112330
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MILLER, Henry and MIchael Fraenkel
Hamlet. Volume II
New York: Carrefour Editions 1941. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Printed thick-paper wrappers; 465pp. Mild soil; spine panel slightly toned but perfectly legible; a tight straight Very Good copy. <br /> <br /> The second collection of Miller's and Fraenkel's volumnious literary correspondence; the first volume was published in 1939. Carrefour Editions a joint effort by Fraenkel and Walter Lowenfels was founded in Paris in 1930 primarily in order to publish their own work and that of their friends among the bohemian American expatriates of Paris. This is one of the last books of the press though the imprint was revived by Fraenkel's daughter Daphne in 1960. Fraenkel was the model for the character of "Boris" an expatriate poet in Miller's Tropic of Cancer. Carrefour Editions unknown
Référence libraire : 80797
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MILLER, Henry & FRAENKEL, Michael
Hamlet. Volume I.
Carrefour 1939. Limited. paperback. fine. 16mo printed wrappers. Santurce P.R. Carrefour 1939. Limited Edition. Letters between Miller & Fraenkel. Fine unopened copy. Shifreen & Jackson A22b.<br/> <br/> Carrefour unknown
Référence libraire : 153321
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Miller, Henry
Handwritten letter to prospective buyer of watercolours & prints together with typed letter from Eve Miller to David Rockwell thanking him for his enquiry signed by her; two brochures from 1955 &1957 listing books by Henry Miller
Envelope back with Miller's return address another envelope with David Rockwell's address on front. Manuscript letter is probably to Rockwell and is one full page starts with " Dear Friend" and ends with"Sincerely Henry Miller". Eve Miller was Henry's fourth wife.They married in 1953 and were divorced in 1960. unknown
Référence libraire : 34708
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Miller, Henry
Hatzoth Va-hezi Half Past Midnight in Hebrew
Tel-Aviv Israel: Zohar 1957. First edition. 239 pp. ix illustrated full pages and one double-sided fold-out page illustrated endpapers. 8vo. Gray boards with blue cloth backstrip red lettering along spine and on front. Bumping to foot of spine and light soiling inscribed Yellow illustrated dust jacket has light soiling and bumping along top and bottom top of spine is chipped away a half inch at head of spine. Binding is good and pages are bright and clean. Overall a very good copy of a scarce Miller publication. Schatz Bezalel. First edition. 239 pp. ix illustrated full pages and one double-sided fold-out page illustrated endpapers. 8vo. In 1956 Henry Miller recorded 'Henry Miller Recalls and Reflects' a collection of short pieces translated and published in Hebrew as Hatzoth Vahtzi Half Past Midnight accompanied with artwork by Bezalel Schatz. This includes a five page final word by Miller not printed in other editions. Shifreen & Jackson A.102 Zohar unknown
Référence libraire : 324518
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Miller, Helen Topping
Hawk in the Wind
NY: Grosset and Dunlap. VG/VG. 1938. reprint. hardcover. 12mo . 256pp . P O name. Bit of edgewear to DJ. Unaccountably scarce. . Grosset and Dunlap hardcover
Référence libraire : MAIN031497I
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Miller, Henry
HENRY MILLER'S BOOK OF FRIENDS: A Tribute to Friends of Long Ago
Santa Barbara: Capra Press 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. This is copy No. 216 of 250 signed by Henry Miller. Celebratory and loving portrait of a small circle of childhood friends from Brooklyn New York by the iconoclastic American writer and perennial bohemian whose autobiographical novels and candid sexual revelations had a liberating influence on mid-20th century literature. Miller 1891-1980 also wrote about his formative years in Black Spring 1936. Octavo. Original black leatherette binding with silver titles. A fine copy in the original acetate dust wrapper. Capra Press hardcover
Référence libraire : 75797 ISBN : 0884960528 9780884960522
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Miller, Henry and Porter, Bern
Henry Miller: A Chronology and Bibliography Collected and Published by Bern Porter LIMITED EDITION #142/500 INSCRIBED BY HENRY MILLER
1943. 1st Edition LIMITED EDITION . Soft cover. Very Good/No dust Jacket as issued. Very good no dust jacket as issued. SIGNED and inscribed by Henry Miller under the printed heading “The Work in Progress†on the first free endpaper "and more dope dates names clues etc as they come to me- by postcard telegram or carrier pigeon". LIMITED edition pamphlet #142/500 privately printed in May 1945. The paper cover is somewhat faded and worn with a small scrape on the rear cover. Previous bookseller's information is penciled on the first free endpaper. The late Miller is the author of "Tropic of Cancer" and The Rosy Crucifixion trilogy. A rare item signed or unsigned. Where possible all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve sealed in a ziplock bag wrapped in bubble wrap shipped in a box. <br/> <br/> paperback
Référence libraire : 5261
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Miller, Henry
Henry Miller Miscellanea
Bern Porter 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Copy #170 of 500 numbered cpies printed at the Greenwood Press. A good copy in the original cream boards printed in red and black boards have some darkening spotting and wear. This copy lacks the signed postcard. Bern Porter hardcover
Référence libraire : 633629
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Miller, Henry (edby Bern Porter) d b
Henry Miller Miscellanea
Berkeley CA: Bern Porter 1945. Limited Numbered Signed . Hardcover. Very Good/Slipcase Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Miller Henry cover. 41pp. including postcard; HB white w/black & brown pic. cover a watercolor holograph poster by H.M. 1943; slight rub & bow w/sun on spine & edges; clean tight pgs. -- "An Original Holograph by Henry Miller" postcard-- in slotbk.pg. Slipcase custom light gray w/label; fine. "Miscellanea has been assembled and published to aid biographers of Henry Miller to foster greater interest among the collectors of his work and to raise funds for the publication of his many manuscripts." signed Bern Porter . "500 copies of Henry Miller Miscellanea have been printed .June 1945 This is copy number 68 <br/> <br/> Bern Porter hardcover
Référence libraire : 058638
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Miller, Henry
Henry Miller's Book of Friends: A Tribute to Friends of Long Ago Signed Limited Edition
Capra Press 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. FINE/FINE. 138pp. 8vo black leatherette with gilt spine lettering and blind-stamped author signature to front cover black endpapers with white facsimile of a hand-written foreword by the author. SIGNED on the limitation page by Henry Miller. Letterpress printed by Noel Young for Capra Press. Copy number 201in an edition limited to 250 handbound copies. Pristine copy entirely clean and sharp with transparent acetate dust jacket. Capra Press hardcover
Référence libraire : 504826
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Miller, Henry; Shifreen, Lawrence J; Jackson, Roger
HENRY MILLER: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PRIMARY SOURCES 5 PUBLISHER'S EPHEMERA ITEMS
1993. Thick octavo 1160 pages with 365 items illustrated. Fine in full burgundy cloth with gilt stamping. Purchased new and only barely used by this bookseller. See photos. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. Hardcover
Référence libraire : 47042
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Miller, Henry
Henry Miller: Watercolors Drawings and His Essay "The Angel is My Watermark"
Abrams. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Oversized cloth with pictorial onlay. Minor shelfsoil to cloth. 12 tipped-in color prints. Two empty sleeves in rear pocket as called for. Few short tears to the acetate DJ. Previous owner was American actor Peter Mark Richman with his name to ffep. ; quarto . Abrams hardcover
Référence libraire : 52787 ISBN : 0877012768 9780877012764
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Miller, Henry
Henry Miller - A Typed Letter Signed 1959
Big Sur: Henry Miller 1959. 1st Edition . No Binding. Very Good. A fascinating and revealing full-page A-4 sized typewritten letter to a female acquaintance by the American literary giant which he has hand-corrected and signed in ink. Dated 10/06/59 and addressed simply "Big Sur" the letter comprises some 53 lines and is written to "Sola". It is evidently one of several which have been swapped with his correspondent following an earlier encounter - "I wanted very much you know to go to Sweden with you. But there happened as we talked things I can't speak of and I decided against it. Nothing to do with you.". Miller opens the letter with an account of his previous morning."just as I was about to take breakfast alone I had a great fit of weeping and sobbing." and proceeds to comment about religion before moving onto astrological matters."My spirits have been very low recently. As you see from my chart I am going through a bad period like I did in 1929 and 1930 when I left Mona and went to Paris." adding below - "According to my Danish friend the astrologer.Saturn will stop bothering me after the end of this year." In Very Good clean condition prominent horizontal folding line to middle with two further prominent vertical folding creases but clean and complete without nicks or tears. Signed "Henry Miller" at the bottom in ink- presumably with a fountain pen as 'splodged' at the beginning of "Henry". <br/> <br/> Henry Miller unknown
Référence libraire : 1901200885
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Miller, Henry
Henry Miller's Book of Friends: A Tribute to Friends of Long Ago
Capra Press 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Copy #109 of 250 numbered copies signed by Henry Miller. A truly fine copy in the original black imitation leather spine stamped in gilt with a fine copy of the original clear plastic jacket. Capra Press hardcover
Référence libraire : 649819 ISBN : 0884960528 9780884960522
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Miller, Henry:
Henry Miller Watercolours drawings and his Essay " The Angel is my Watermark"
London Thames and Hudson 1962 Hardcover book first edition in clear plastic dustjacket. Henry Miller's Art illustrated with color plates and photographs The reproductions of the watercolours have been made detatchable with two slip-in mounts frames provided in pocket at rear for study at leisure. A Very Good copy in a Good jacket with tears and losses to corners and back. Pictures available. London, Thames and Hudson, 1962 hardcover
Référence libraire : 40019
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MILLER, Henry
Henry Miller's Book of Friends
New. hardcover. New. Satisfaction Guaranteed or your money back. hardcover
Référence libraire : 0884960501 ISBN : 0884960501 9780884960508
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Miller, Henry
Henry Miller's Hamlet Letters
New. paperback. New. Satisfaction Guaranteed or your money back. paperback
Référence libraire : 0884962695 ISBN : 0884962695 9780884962694
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Miller, Henry
Henry Miller's Book of Friends: A Tribute to Friends of Long Ago ; Brooklyn Photos by Jim Lazarus: 001
New. paperback. New. Satisfaction Guaranteed or your money back. paperback
Référence libraire : 088496051X ISBN : 088496051X 9780884960515
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Miller, Henry
Henry Miller's Book of Friends: A Trilogy
New. paperback. New. Satisfaction Guaranteed or your money back. paperback
Référence libraire : 0884962563 ISBN : 0884962563 9780884962564
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Miller, Henry
Henry Miller Original Watercolor Painting.
1969. Rare original watercolor painting by American writer and artist Henry Miller. Signed and dated by the artist "Henry Miller 8/69." In near fine condition. Matted and framed the entire piece measures 31 inches by 27 inches. To read Miller without his watercolors is to miss something essential. The two practices were never separate compartments of a versatile temperament. They were one continuous act of attention carried out in different mediums. Miller came to both arts late and by improvisation. Born in 1891 and raised in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn he spent his twenties and early thirties in a succession of jobs—Western Union personnel manager being the longest and most despised—and a first marriage that left him restless and unsure of his vocation. He read voraciously and idiosyncratically: Whitman Emerson Dostoevsky Knut Hamsun Élie Faure. He wrote and discarded several manuscripts. He did not yet know how to put a sentence together with the unmistakable rhythm that would later carry his name. The watercolors began in this same period of indecision. The story Miller liked to tell—and like most of his stories it has the burnish of frequent telling—is that he sat down one day with a child's paintbox and began to make pictures with no instruction whatsoever. He did not study composition. He did not enroll in a class. He simply painted with the same mixture of immersion and bravado that he would later bring to the books. Painting and writing entered his life through the same door: as practices of self-discovery undertaken without permission. In 1930 Miller arrived in Paris with almost no money and stayed nearly a decade. The years he describes in Tropic of Cancer—hunger walking talk the cafés and the borrowed beds—were also the years in which his prose finally became his own. Tropic of Cancer was published in 1934 by Jack Kahane's Obelisk Press in the familiar soft wrappers and with the warning that it was not to be imported into England or the United States. Black Spring followed in 1936 and Tropic of Capricorn in 1939. The voice of these books—rhapsodic profane philosophical comic and unembarrassed—was unlike anything else being written in English. What is sometimes overlooked is that Miller went on painting throughout these Paris years. He painted at café tables and on hotel desks. He gave watercolors away to friends and bartenders. He included an essay on his painting practice—"The Angel Is My Watermark!"—as a chapter of Black Spring a piece in which he describes the abandon of the act with the same comic seriousness he brought to his accounts of writing. The essay is one of the more memorable pieces of prose ever written about the act of painting by someone the art world had not yet recognized as a painter except that Miller was already by the standards he cared about a painter. When Miller returned to the United States in 1940 and eventually settled at Big Sur in 1944 the watercolors took on an even larger place in his daily life. He often wrote in the morning and painted in the afternoon. He hung them on the walls of his cabin. He sent them to correspondents in lieu of letters. He sold them when he needed money sometimes for a few dollars sometimes traded for groceries and supplies. The habit of giving them away casually and without ceremony became part of the texture of his Big Sur years. The publications on painting accumulated. The Waters Reglitterized a small treatise on the watercolor practice appeared at mid-century. To Paint Is to Love Again which gathers his thinking on the discipline with the directness of a man addressing what he loves most appeared in 1960. Insomnia or the Devil at Large published late in his life recounts a sleepless period during which he produced a series of watercolors as the only solace the hours offered him. Across these books a consistent attitude emerges. Miller refuses to treat painting as either an amateur indulgence or a secondary art. He treats it as a vocation. His refusal was more than rhetorical. The watercolors themselves have steadily found their audience. They were exhibited during his lifetime in the United States in Europe and in Japan and the major collections of them have continued to be shown and published in the decades since his death. Miller was one of those writers who becomes a critic in spite of himself and his pages on painting amount to a quiet consistent aesthetic. He believed that the act of painting was a form of prayer—a phrase he used without irony. He believed that one should paint as a child paints without the burden of knowing better. He believed that mistakes were not to be erased but absorbed that the watercolor's accidents were among its great virtues and that the painter's task was to remain receptive rather than to assert mastery. These convictions are not incidental to his prose. The same trust in accident the same suspicion of the corrected and the polished the same preference for flow over architecture governs the structure of Tropic of Cancer and Black Spring. Miller's books proceed by association rather than plot. They take their shape from the rhythm of the sentences and the sudden swerves of the speaker's attention. They share in other words the method of his watercolors. The two practices clarify each other. To understand what Miller meant by writing one has to understand what he meant by painting; and vice versa. He once wrote that to paint was to love again. The phrase is sentimental in the way Miller could be when he was telling the truth. He meant among other things that painting returned him to a state of unguarded attention to the world that ordinary life conspires against. The books had the same purpose. In addition to his contributions to literature American writer and artist Henry Miller produced a significant body of watercolor paintings and published several books on the field. Unlike writing which Miller considered work he regarded painting as a means to recharge and relax and even used his watercolors to barter for household supplies and other services. Many of Miller's paintings feature horses and horse-like figures reminiscent of the Etruscan ceramic paintings he admired at the Louvre during his time living and working in Paris. unknown
Référence libraire : 130551
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Miller, Henry
Henry Miller's Hamlet Letters
paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
Référence libraire : 0884962695.G ISBN : 0884962695 9780884962694
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