Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1976. First edition. LETTER "F" OF ONLY 26 SIGNED LETTERED COPIES WITH ORIGINAL SIGNED DRAWING TIPPED IN. (There were an additional 224 signed numbered copies issued without the drawing.) 8vo full black leather stamped in silver at spine. Foreword by Miller; illustrated with photographs by Jim..... Item #54177 More
(Norfolk): New Directions, no-date [1952]. First U.S. edition. This publication was a joint venture between New Directions and Peter Owens in London but the sheets, which were printed in Ireland, were held up in U.S. customs resulting in the UK edition preceding this one. Ruminations on key books in his..... Item #54174 More
Paris: The Obelisk Press, (1938). First edition. His first collection of short stories and essays released as number two in the Villa Seurat Series. One of 1000 copies. Paperwraps with printed flaps. Repairs to hinges and spine still good to very good. A notoriously frail book, this copy is housed..... Item #54176 More
Paris: Booster Publications, (1938). First edition. INSCRIBED TO THE PAINTER HILAIRE HILER, "To Hilaire Hiler -- monetary expert. Henry 10/38. Hiler, a fellow expatriate in Paris in the 1920s, tutored Miller in art, and he and Miller (together with William Saroyan) later authored a 1945 book on the subject called..... Item #54161 More
(Puerto Rico): Carrefour, (1939). First edition. Correspondence spanning the years 1935-1936 between Miller and Michael Fraenkel, the model for Boris in TROPIC OF CANCER. 12mo off-white paperwraps printed in red and black. Near fine in original tattered and worn glassine. Item #55981 More
(Puerto Rico) / New York: Carrefour, (1939 / 1941). First edition. Two volumes. Correspondence spanning the years 1935-1938 between Miller and Michael Fraenkel, the model for Boris in TROPIC OF CANCER. Both volumes in off-white printed paperwraps. Volume I is bright, clean, unopened and very nearly fine with just a...... Item #54037 More
![Item #53844 THE COLOSSUS OF MAROUSSI; [Inscribed, in facsimile dust jacket]. Henry Miller](https://qbbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/53844.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1560716438)
San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1941). First edition. This non-pornographic piece must have disappointed publishers anticipating something more lurid from Miller after his "Tropic of Cancer" because ten New York publishers rejected it before Colt Press accepted it with an advance of only 100 USD [Shifreen & Jackson A26b]. INSCRIBED..... Item #53844 More
Norfolk: New Directions, (1939). First edition, first issue, with eye on front cover of book. This collection contains a number of Henry Miller's most important shorter prose writings. They are taken from the Paris books Black Spring (1936) and Max and the White Phagocytes (1938) and were for the most..... Item #51815 More
(New York): New Directions Book, (1975). First edition. Number 260 of 700 copies SIGNED BY MILLER. Facsimile of Miller's notebook kept on his 3-year odyssey across the U.S. after returning from 10 years of expatriation. Quarto green cloth boards, printed spine label. In original glassine dust jacket which is a...... Item #54139 More
New York: Grove, (1983). First edition. His pornographic writings done for a Los Angeles bookseller in the 1940's for $1 a page. Page edges faintly foxed otherwise fine in fine dust jacket with the barest wear. Item #37057 More
![Item #54373 PLEXUS: The Rosy Crucifixion, Book Two [Volumes One and Two]. Henry Miller](https://qbbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/54373.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1569382546)
Paris: The Obelisk Press, (1953). First edition. Two volumes. Number 1,078 of 2000 numbered copies "printed for private circulation." Second book in his Rosy Crucifxion trilogy of SEXUS, PLEXUS and NEXUS, a fictionalized account his life in Brooklyn before leaving for Paris in 1928. Initially banned in the U.S. and..... Item #54373 More
Big Sur, CA: 1944 - 1945. Eleven full-page handwritten letters (one on back of brochure for UK edition of MURDER THE MURDERER); one 2-page letter (front and back); an inscribed review-style photo; and 4 postcards. Most of the letters open with either "Dear Rudolph Gilbert" or "Dear friend Gilbert"; each..... Item #71577 More
New York: Medusa, 1940. First U.S. edition -- albeit an unauthorized one -- of Miller's first and most famous book. One of only 1000 copies in the first-issue binding of light green linen boards with gilt spine lettering. According to Shifreen & Jackson, an overrun of 200 to 500 unbound..... Item #52777 More
Tokyo: Keimeisha, no-date [1953]. Tenth edition and first Japanese edition, with Japanese language colophon priced 1,200 Yen tipped to verso of rear endpaper (versus p.[357] as noted in Shifreen & Jackson). Red cloth boards lettered in yellow on front and spine; stylized elephant blind-stamped on rear board; colophon slip measuring..... Item #54992 More
Berkeley: Bern Porter, (1944). First U.S. edition of Miller's second book which was originally published in Paris in 1935; includes the first appearance of his "Preface to the Third Edition." Written to raise money for long-time friend Alfred Perles. 3.5 x 5.25" plain, stapled paperwraps in pale yellow dust jacket..... Item #54222 More
Berkeley: Bern Porter, (1944). First edition. Limited to 1150 copes. Selection of the letters from Miller to life-long friend Emil Schnellock. Illustrated with black-and-white reproductions of watercolors by Miller, including the frontis. Cover drawing by Miller. Quarto off-white paperwraps in stiff paper dust jacket printed in black. Near fine in..... Item #54142 More
(London): Scorpion Press, 1959. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies. Companion volume to Miller's REUNION IN BARCELONA. Very good with paperwraps a little toned along spine edge. Item #55144 More