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$15.00Vancouver: Kirpan Press (2004). First edition. 4to. [54 pp]. Fine in side-stapled wrappers. Tipped-on cover illustration by T.L. Kryss. One of 71 numbered copies. A fine collection of letters, largely occasioned by the ordering of books by Kryss, and mutual frustrations caused by the Cleveland Indians.$25.00Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1984). First US edition. 172 pp w/indexes. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Edited by Herta Blaukopf with her notes and an essay. Translated by Edmund Jephcott. Illustrated. From the library of Nathaniel Tarn, with his bookplate.$17.50Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books (2009). First UK edition. 95 pp w/notes. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Translated from the original Russian by Richard and Elizabeth McKane. Nathaniel Tarn’s copy, with his embossed ownership stamp on the third leaf.$15.00Manchester: Carcanet (2019). First edition. xxvi + 462 pp w/index. Corner crease to one leaf, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Introduction and commentaries by Michael Schmidt.
$125.00Boston: Shambhala, 1986. Uncorrected proof. 253 pp w/notes. Fine in printed wrappers. SIGNED by Matthiessen on the title page. Publicity letter to the book editor at Time Magazine laid in.$150.00NY: Cosmopolitan Magazine, 1949. First edition. 133 pp. Near fine in decorated blue cloth.$50.00Pacific Palisades: Rasselas Press, 1982. First edition. xx + 81 pp w/notes. Fine in full cloth with printed cover and spine labels. Illustrated. Printed by Patrick Reagh. One of 274 numbered copies.$450.00NY: 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.$450.00[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.$15.00NY: Grove (1975). First edition. 184 pp w/index. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket with a wrinkle along top edge of the front panel. Introduction by Wallace Fowlie. Shifreen & Jackson A195.$20.00NY: Grove (1975). First edition. 184 pp w/index. Very good plus in very good plus, price-clipped dust jacket. The text is underlined and annotated in places. Dated (Sept 5, 1975) and INSCRIBED by Fowlie on the front free endpaper. Introduction by Wallace Fowlie. Shifreen & Jackson A195.$25.00London: Putnam (1959). First edition. 63 pp. A few small stains to text, else near fine in very good plus, dust jacket with a small chip and two short tears. Inked ownership signature of poet and publisher Douglas Blazek on the front free endpaper. Shifreen & Jackson A113a.$35.00London: Putnam (1959). First edition. 63 pp. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket. Shifreen & Jackson A113a.$20.00Ann Arbor: Roger Jackson (1995). First trade edition. 16mo. [36 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Miller’s letter with Jackson’s introduction. One of 200 (of 400) copies in the trade edition.
$25.00NY: New Directions (1989). First edition. 168 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket (lightly toned). Edited by George Wickes with his introduction. First appearance of these letters to Emil Schnellock, composed originally from 1922 through 1934. Shifreen & Jackson A258a.$12.50Ann Arbor: Roger Jackson (1996). First edition. Single sheet, folded twice. Fine. Presents a 1961 and 1962 letter from Miller to Guiglion. One of 250 copies.$20.00Detroit: Wayne State University, 1968. First edition. 342 pp w/index. Fine in very good plus, price-clipped dust jacket.$20.00NY: Knopf, 1997. First edition. 597 pp w/index. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.$35.00London & Melbourne: Macmillan, 1967. First edition. 235 pp w/index. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with some light wear to crown. Edited by Eiluned Lewis, with his memoir.$45.00NY: Fine Editions Press (1948). First edition. 157 pp. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket with light wear to crown and faint sunning to spine. Selected letters, all written in 1942, creating a kind of self-portrait. Murdoch's fourth book. His last, THE DISROBING: SEX AND SATIRE, was published by Gay Sunshine Press in 1982, the year after he died.$20.00NY: Harper & Row (1979). First edition. ix + 346 pp w/index. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a small nick at the crown of spine. Edited, annotated, and with an introduction by Edmund Wilson.$25.00NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich/Bruccoli Clark Layman (1989). First edition. xxvi + 582 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited by Dmitri Navokov and Matthew J. Bruccoli.$20.00London: Little, Brown (1999). First edition. 333 pp w/notes. Fine in fine dust jacket.$45.00Pasadena: Castle Press, 1980. First edition. 133 pp w/notes. Fine in without dust jacket as issued. One of 175 copies reserved for presentation to members of the Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs.
$45.00NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1974). First edition. ix + 275 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket that is slightly misfolded. Edited by Gunther Stuhlman, with his preface. Sixteen pages of photographs. Review slip and author photo accompanies.$55.00San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1986. First edition. Folio. 238 pp w/bibliography. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine. Fine unprinted white paper dust jacket. Compiled and printed by Jesse S. Crisler. One of 500 copies printed by Will Henry Powers and Wesley B. Tanner.$75.00Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow 1990. First edition, lettered & signed issue. 341 pp w/indexes. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. Edited by Richard Belevins. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Creeley and Blevins.$20.00Santa Barbara: Christopher’s Books, 1979. First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 500 copies. Two pages by Den Boer introducing this nine page letter from Olson. Two short postcards from Olson are quoted in full in Den Boer’s intro.
$200.00Durham & London: Duke University Press, 1990. First edition. xxxiii + 425 pp w/notes. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with small wrinkle to the front panel. Edited by Rachel Blau DuPlessis. Effectively the largest prose collection by the poet.$25.00NY: Liveright (2012). First US edition. xxi + 597 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Introduction by Christopher Hitchens. Edited by Peter Davison.$25.00NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company (1950). Advance excerpt. 14 pp. Very good plus in stapled wrappers with some light soiling. Gotham Book Mart stamp on front and rear. Reprints a selection from Mark Van Doren's Preface, and Pound letters to W.C. Williams, Alice Corbin Henderson, Harriet Monroe, Amy Lowell, H.L. Mencken, T.E. Lawrence, James Joyce, and several others.$25.00Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1963. First edition. 48 pp. Near fine in printed paper-covered boards and near fine clear acetate dust jacket. Edited with an introduction by A. J. Robbins.