Miller Henry Introduction Lawrence Durrell (11 results)

Third printing Very close to fine pictorial stiff wraps with excellent spine and crisp text throughout. Another author's name and date neatly to the first page which affects none of the text. We notice a few pages with subtle lining.

Later printing Fine and very bright stiff wraps with excellent square spine and crisp text throughout. Never read. A beautiful copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. With owner's signature, otherwise like new in a bright, practically perfect jacket with original $6.50 price. An anthology of the best of Henry Miller edited by Lawrence Durrell. Jacket has Miller's portrait on front panel.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. FitzClarence (Jacket design) (illustrator). First UK Edition. First impression of the first UK edition, published in the UK in 1960. Edited and with an introduction by Lawrence Durrell. There wasn't an equivalent American edition of this collection. ***Near fine in navy-blue cloth-covered boards with silver titles to the spine. Boards clean and unmarked. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. Corners sharp. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Internally also near fine with just light tanning to the paper. There is a bookplate on the front pastedown 'Ex Libris - Alan Anderson' - Alan was the founder of Tragara Press - the small press based in Edinburgh which published from 1954 onwards. Also a pencilled comment which could be erased 'From the library of Alan Anderson, founder of Tragara Press'. Spine tight. Pages clean. ***In a very good red, black and yellow illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of 30s net. The dustwrapper is complete, but has some marks and creasing commensurate with age and handling (please see scans). Head and tail of spine slightly creased. No serious creases, chips or tears. The red colour on the spine is sun-faded. ***397 pages including Introduction, Preface, Chronology and Bibliography. 220mm x 145mm. ***Contents: Introduction by Lawrence Durrell, Author's Preface, PLACES - The 14th Ward, Paris and Its Suburbs, Dijon, Epidaurus and Mycenae, The Ghetto (N.Y.), Big Sur Invocation. STORIES - Picodiribibi, Reunion in Brooklyn, Max, Goldilocks, Automotive Passacaglia, Berthe. LITERARY ESSAYS - The Universe of Death, Of Art and the Future, Reflections on Writing, The Wisdom of the Heart, Tribute to France. PORTRAITS - Un Etre Etoilique, Hans Reichel, Alfred Perles, Blaise Cendrars. THE MAN HIMSELF - A Commonplace Book of Aphorisms and Ideas. APPENDIX - Defense of the Freedom to Read, Chronology, Bibliography. ***'In 1958, to the surprise of those people who had known of him only as the author of banned books, Henry Miler was elected to the American Institute of Arts and Letters. At that time he was welcomed by his fellow writers as "the veteran author of many books whose originality and richness of technique are matched by the variety and daring of his subject matter. His boldness of approach and his intense curiosity concerning man and nature are unequalled in the prose literature of our time." ***The material which has been selected by Lawrence Durrell for this representative anthology traces the main line and principal themes of the "single, endless autobiography" which is Henry Miller's life work. It includes extracts from a dozen different books including several which are still banned in England: Tropic of Cancer, Black Spring, Sexus and Plexus.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper). ***First impression of the first UK edition in nice collectable condition. An anthology tracing the principal themes of Henry Miller's life work, divided into sections according to the titles; 'Places', 'Stories', 'Literary Essays' and 'Portraits'. Miller contributes a commentary on each essay fitting it into context of his life story. Also includes a chronology of Miller's life, a bibliography and part of an opoen letter protesting the ban of 'Sexus'. Uncommon in this condition now. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Wraps. Condition: Good. Second printing. 8vo, 397 pp. Inscribed and signed by author. From the collection of Pierre Sicari, HM's firend and barber, and an important Miller collector. "For Pierre-- who needs no Introduction to my work! Henry Miller, 27/1/72." Wrappers rubbed and edgeworn with light scuffing to spine edges and just a bit of foxing to back cover and edges; top edge dusty, page edges tanned.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Thus. This is a fine, as new, hardcover copy of the Loujon Cork edition of 1399 copies, fine Picasso DW, in a fine slip case. Photos on request.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Thus. This is a fine, as new, hardcover copy of the Loujon Cork edition of 1399 copies, fine Picasso DW, in a fine slip case. Laid in is the press sheet : Shortly after publication, the Cork Ed. Of ORDER & CHAOS was winner of three awards- for Typography, Type Direction & Design- in TDC's 13th Annual Awards Show. Photos on request.

ĵ Leather Over Cloth Slipcased. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition 1/99 Deluxe. 106pp, illustrated in monochrome. Text in English and French. Designed by Louise and Jon Webb. "Order and Chaos Chez Hans Reichel" publishes for the first time Henry Miller's thoughtful 1938 essay on the underappreciated German-born, Parisian-based visual artist Hans Reichel. A typically elaborately designed and lavishly produced Loujon undertaking, it features an introduction by Lawrence Durrell along with beautiful reproductions of several of Reichel's Paul Klee-inspired works. A most handsome example of the uncommon "Oasis Edition" in gilt-stamped ½ leather over cloth housed in the publisher's printed cork-covered slipcase limited to ninety-nine copies SIGNED AND DATED "Henry Miller / 6/6/66" in black ink on a blank leaf at the rear, as issued, showing the smallest bit of brown spotting to its illustrated vellum dust jacket. Signed and Dated by Henry Miller. Artist Monograph.

Hardcover in slipcase. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. SIGNED Limited Edition. SIGNED by writer Lawence Durrell on the colophon. This being a publisher's Presentation copy which is out-of-series, and thus unnumbered. INSCRIBED by the publisher Noel Young & his wife Judy to Digby Diehl the editor of the Los Angeles Times book review on the half-title page. Fine in navy blue cloth with gilt title on spine, enclosed in a gray cloth slipcase with a pictorial image of one of Miller's paintings tipped onto the front cover. Features 72 full-color plates. (B).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. SIGNED Limited Edition. One of 99 copies. The 'Leather' issue. Fine in quarter leather & cloth in fine dj., laid-into the publisher's slipcase. A beautiful production. Most copies on the market are the 1/1399 issue. (1/26 being the ultra Ltd.); 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Very nice copy in fragmentary remains of dust-wrapper, bookplate First English Edition of The Henry Miller Reader.