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$400.00Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1978. First edition. 110 pp. Fine in very good plus dust jacket with a tear at the crown of the spine, and sunning to the spine lettering. INSCRIBED by Miller to his publisher Noel Young, “For Noel- / with the deepest / appreciation- / a beautiful / job again! / Henry / 2/22/78.” Shifreen & Jackson A213b.$75.00London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson (1964). First UK edition. 359 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Shifreen & Jackson A20g.$20.00NY: Signet/New American Library (1955). First edition. 143 pp. Bookstore stamp to first leaf, else very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Kenneth Rexroth contributes an introduction to this collection of writings.$45.00Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1980. First edition. 59 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Very near fine acetate dust jacket. One of 750 trade hardcover copies.$12.50Santa Barbara: Capra Press (1999). First edition. 143 pp w/index. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers; a trade paperback original. Edited by Blair Fielding.$125.00[Santa Barbara]: Capra Press, 1981. First edition, lettered & signed issue. 10 x 4 1/4 inch broadside, printed in two colors on pale blue paper. Fine. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Noel Young, Miller’s last editor. While the colophon claims this is Miller’s only published poem, there was at least one other, and this poem appeared in Harper’s Bazaar, Wake, and Third Rail, before this issue. Slocum & Cahoon A234a.$75.00[Santa Barbara]: Capra Press, 1981. First edition. 10 x 4 1/4 inch broadside, printed in orange ink on pale blue paper. Fine. While the colophon claims this is Miller’s only published poem, there was at least one other, and this poem appeared in Harper’s Bazaar, Wake, and Third Rail, before this issue. Slocum & Cahoon A234b.$20.00NY: Grove (1983). First edition. 288 pp. Light foxing to page edges, else near fine in near fine dust jacket with some wear along top edge of front panel. A novel published under Miller’s name, but not actually by Miller. Shifreen & Jackson A240a.
$350.00[Paris]: Gallimard (1946). First French edition, hors commerce issue. 267 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers. First French edition of BLACK SPRING, translated by Paul Rivert. One of five lettered hors commerce copies. This is copy “c.”$2,000.00Paris: Olympia Press, 1956. Second edition. 171 pp. Light bump to rear upper corner of text block, else very near fine in illustrated wrappers that have some light rubbing. A bright copy. Illustrated with photographs by Brassaï. Shifreen & Jackson A100a.
$25.00Santa Barbara: Capra, 1974. First trade edition. 62 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Foreword by Noel Young. Miller’s consideration of Jacob Wassermann’s novel. Shifreen & Jackson A52h.$20.00London: Scorpion Press, 1959. Second printing. 38 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers. Shifreen & Jackson A114c.$50.00NY: New Directions (1959). First edition. xvi + 397 pp w/chronology & bibliography. Very near fine in very good plus dust jacket with one closed tear, light edgewear, and sunned spine. Edited, with an introduction by Lawrence Durrell with a preface by Miller. Review slip laid in. Shifreen & Jackson A119a.$20.00NY: New American Library, 1959. First edition. Near fine in wraps. Paperback original.$20.00NY: Signet (1959). First edition. 191 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Selections from seven of Miller’s books, with an introduction to Lawrence Clark Powell. Shifreen & Jackson A115a.$350.00NY: New Directions (1975). First edition. [x + 210 pp]. Fine in full cloth with printed spine label. Lacks unprinted tissue dust jacket. One of 700 copies SIGNED by Miller. Facsimile of the notebook kept by Miller on his trip across the US that gave rise to the “Air Conditioned Nightmare.” Shifreen & Jackson A197.$50.00Highlands: Jonathan Williams (nd). First edition. [86 pp]. Some rubbing to front cover, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Shifreen & Jackson A110. Jargon 22.$25.00NY: Grove Press (1965). Twelfth edition, second US edition (the first authorized US edition). 640 pp. Small chip to top edge of rear cover, else very near fine in printed wrappers. Shifreen & Jackson A83o.$15.00Evanston: Greenleaf Publishing (1965). Thirteenth edition overall, first US edition (third piracy). 271 pp. Lean and reading creases to spine, else very good only in printed wrappers with a crease to lower right corner. The second volume only of this two volume set. Shifreen & Jackson A76t.
$35.00NY: Grove (1965). Fourteenth edition overall, first printing of this second American edition. 634 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. A remarkably sharp copy with no reading creases to spine. BC-99. Shifreen & Jackson A76u.$100.00Paris: Obelisk Press (1950). Second edition, first combined clothbound edition. 634 pp. Very near fine in full sahara brown cloth. No dust jacket (no example seen by the bibliographers). Shifreen & Jackson A76c.$75.00NY: Duell, Sloan & Perce (1948). First edition. 124 pp. Bookplate affixed to front paste-down (partially covered by the front flap), else near fine in very good plus dust jacket with some wear to the crown of spine, which is a bit tanned. Shifreen & Jackson A66a.$27.50[San Jose]: John Kidis, 1950. First edition. [52 pp]. Near fine in illustrated wrappers with rusty spine staples and a small damp stain. Tipped-on photograph of Emil Schnellock as a frontis. One of 1000 numbered copies. Shifreen & Jackson A80a.
$40.00Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1980. First trade edition. 272 pp w/notes. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Edited with an introduction and notes by Evelyn J. Hinz and John J. Teunissen. Miller died two days before the first copies of this book came back from the bindery. He began to write it in 1932. Promotional materials laid in.
$200.00Various Places: Various Publishers (1959-1967). Variant second, first variant binding (A25f), Variant second edition, fifth binding variant (A25j), Variant second edition, eighth variant binding, first paperback edition (A25m), Variant second edition, ninth variant binding (A25n), Variant fourth edition (A25q), Ninth edition, 5th US edition, third piracy (A25x). Two hardcover and three paperback volumes, all very near fine or better with exceptions being some light edge wear to the Olympia Press volume and a bookplate inside the front board of one of the hardcovers. For the lot:$750.00NY: Medusa, 1940. First US edition, eighth edition overall. 322 pp. Near fine in full green cloth, sunned to the spine and extrems. No dust jacket, possibly as issued (one not seen by bibliographer). SIGNED by Miller on the front free endpaper. Shifreen & Jackson A9j.
$75.00Berkeley: Bern Porter [1944]. First US edition. 24 pp. Very good plus in stapled wrappers. 738 copies printed, all of which were to be censored by hand to cover 14 words, as in this copy. From the library of poet Douglas Blazek, SIGNED by Blazek on the front free endpaper. Shifreen & Jackson A10c.
$100.00Berkeley: Bern Porter [1944]. First US edition (third edition overall). 12mo. 24 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. Ten words blacked-out (by the publisher) as a condition of publication. Shifreen & Jackson A10c.$150.00Yonkers: Oscar Baradinsky 1947. First edition. 43 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers with light wear to yapp edges and two short tears to bottom edge of front and rear covers. One of 750 (of 1000) copies. Contributions by Miller, Fowlie, W.C. Williams, Connolly, Huxley, Cendrars, and many others.$10.00NY: Grove Weidenfeld (1990). First edition. 280 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket.$45.00NY: Scribner’s, 1949. First edition. 212 pp. Small date stamp (1990) and glue spot to the front board (largely covered by flap), light foxing to top edge. In all, very good plus in very good dust jacket with soiling and a few short tears to rear panel, and light overall edgewear. One of three novels by this Greenwich Village denizen later collected under the title, “New York Mosaic.” Young 345*.$15.00NY: Random House (1971). First edition. 65 pp. Small inked name and date to front free endpaper, else near fine in near fine dust jacket with a tiny short tear. Young 2709*.