Henry Miller Books in My Life

[MILLER, Henry.]. HENRY MILLER EPHEMERA COLLECTION..
A FASCINATING COLLECTION OF OBSCURE EPHEMERA ON MILLER A very useful group of 11 items concerning Henry Miller: * 1. PLAYBOY MAGAZINE March 1977. Photos of Henry & an essay by Henry: THE FIRECRACKER VS. THE BOMB-ESSAY: An Appeal for Sanity & Soulfulness by the Master. A 5 page article, the complete issue, very good. * 2. CAPRA PRESS: Prospectus for HENRY MILLER titles, many are signed by Miller, limited numbered editions. * 3. THE BLADE: BOOK PAGE from Toledo Ohio [Newspaper]. A copy of a review of: HENRY MILLER: A BIBLIOGRAHY OF PRIMARY SOURCES compiled, edited & published by L. J. Shifreen & R. Jackson. Along with a prospectus of the bibliography. * 4. SATURDAY REVIEW magazine December 11, 1971. Color photo on the cover of Henry: HENRY MILLER REBEL-CLOWN AT EIGHTY an article by Benjamin Demott. A review of his books: MY LIFE AND TIMES & three decades of criticism edited by E. B. Mitchell. A 5 page article, with 2 b.w. photos: one of Henry & his Japanese girl firend 'Puko' & another of Henry before one of his collages at the Big Sur home. The full issue of the magazine. * 5. U.C.L.A. LIBRARIAN. HENRY MILLER RELATED ISSUES: a. January 1972. CELEBRATION OF HENRY'S 80TH BIRTHDAY -PARTY AT SPECAL COLLECTIONS DEPT. With photo of H.M., -Lawrence Durrell Lawrence Powell, 6p., 1 p. on H.M. -2 copies. b. March 1977. IN MEMORIY OF ANAIS NIN [1903-1977]. With -a b.w. photo of her, and front cover paragraph about -her, concerns an exhibition of materials on her -relationship between Henry Miller. c. June 1980. HENRY MILLER 1891-1980 obituary by Lawrence -C. Powell, his long time friend. 2 page article, with -b.w. photo of H.M. d. July/August 1985. THE LIFE-WORK OF HENRY MILLER. An -article by Ms. E. Labroom, visiting scholar King's -College London, 3 p. article about he digging in the -U.C.L.A. Special Collection Library Archives. * 6. 1981 SANTA CRUZ EXPRESS, [Calif.] Sept. 17 issue, 5 full -issue copies, with photo of Henry Miller on the Cover, -222 overall 29 x 35cm., very good, 2 full page article, -with photo of Henry & his 2nd wife. Concerns the opening -of the H.M. Library at Big Sur by Jerry Kamstra. A very -rendering of Henry, superbly executed. * 7. THE INTIMATE HENRY MILLER. By Henry Miller. A signet -paperback edition, with photo of Henry on the cover, -paper a bit browned, 191p., 1959. * 8. HENRY MILLER EXHIBITON: A Japanese language catalogue, -celebrating an exhibition of his writings & books in -Tokyo, 1968. With a one page English typed letter to -Mr. Jin, who was responsible for the exhibition, dated -March 8,1968, Tokyo. Japanese exhibition catalog title: -"HENRI MIRAA [sic] DREAMS FROM NEAR AND FAR". [An exact -translation from Japanese]. Catalog by the famous Japanese -photographer & designer Tadanori Yokoo, [30]p., -21.5 x 26 cm., profusely illustrated with color & b.w. -photos of H.M's color watercolors, photos of H.M & Hoki, -his Japanese wife, early life photos of H.M. with long -Japanese text, and bibliography of his writings in both -English & Japanese. The exhibition was promoted by the -ART LIFE ASSN., Tokyo. R A R E * Color scans can be sent by email. Images displayed may not be the actual copy in stock for sale at any given time; if you want to see the exact image of the book or edition in stock, please request this by email and an image will be returned to you by attachment. * * * BUY WITH * * * * SHIPPING: WE SHIP WORLD WIDE * * * * * The shipping costs displayed for our books on ZVAB are ONLY AN ESTIMATE !!! * ACTUAL costs are based book weight, destination and value. * We will inform you of shipping costs and options once you select the book. **FOREIGN: We usually ship by registered/insured airmail to customers abroad. **DOMESTIC: We ship to USA customers by UPS/FEDEX or U.S. MAIL, appropriate insurance/registry and signature required will appply. ***** Please inquire if you have any questions regarding shipping or payments .

A group of 11 obscure & unusual articles on and about Henry Miller. All in original very good condition, very minor def- ects such as being dusty, bit scuffed, not noted, but all in all very clean, good copies.

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Anon. Fille De Joie: The book of Courtesans, Sporting Girls, Ladies of the Evening, Madams, a Few Occasionals & Some Royal Favorites. New York: Dorset Press, 1967.

First edition Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. STATED FIRST PRINTING. 448 pages with 354 black and white photos, illustrations and 17 color plates. The book and dust jacket is NEAR FINE condition with minor shelfwear. JMVINTAGGE specializes in Books, Magazines and Treasures related to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and..other curious subjects like COURTESANS. The dust jacket reads:The literature of the fille de joie is vast and rich. In this volume an effort has been made to include material chosen both for its realism and its literary excellence in fiction and for inherent interest and detail in nonfiction, as well as to include material from as many periods of history and regions of the world as possible. The reader will find edification in comparing Lucian's second- century "The Education of a Courtesan" with Nell Kimball's ninteenth-century account of brothel life in New Orleans re- counted in "Gone Are the Days," or with Harold Greenwald'scontemporary case history of how the telephone has changed the profession in "The Life of the Call Girl." Those interested in the influence of geography upon the manners and mores of the fille de joie will find accounts ranging from 300 A.D. ("Advice from the Kama Sutra") to the twentieth century (Virginia McManus's "New York Call Girl"). He can contrast sporting life in Tokyo (William Fitzpatrick's "Tokyo After Dark, London (John Gosling's and Douglas Warner's "London Today"), Paris Sam Boal's "The Pros of Paris"), Rome (George St. George's "Closing Night in Rome"), Bangkok, Los Angeles (Pearl Thompson's "Los Angeles Sporting Girl"), New York (Polly Adlers "New York Madam"), and points east and west. Works of fiction include Casanova's famous "My Short and Lively Stay in Ancona," John Cleland's "The Mysteries of Venus," two Maupassant stories "The False Gems" and "The Signal," Pierre Lours' enchanting "A Courtesan of Alexandria," a selec- tion from Sade's novel Juliette, and Henry Miller's "Four Filles de Paris" selected from his various works. Hard Cover condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

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Girodias, Maurice (Editor): The Olympia Reader: Selections from the Travellers Companion Series, New York Ballantine Books 1967
ISBN: 0345219805 New

Girodias founded the Olympia Press in Paris in the Spring of 1953, a shoestring operation par excellence. The first manuscript he acquired was Henry Miller's Plexus together with de Sade's Bedroom Philosophers and Memoirs of a Young Rakehell. His DB's, short for "dirty books", deal with sex in an explicit and unabashed manner and can be defended on the grounds of "literary merit". This huge compendium includes The World of Sex by Henry Anthology from the Paris Years. Miller, The Ginger Man by J.P. Donleavy, The Black Book by Lawrence Durrell, Fanny Hill, The Story of O, Frank Harris's My Life and Loves, Naked Lunch, Lolita, The Soft Machine by Burroughs, Sexus and Our Lady of the Flowers by Genet to name but some of the 42 very full extracts, together with details of the authors and plots. First Thus Paperback 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall

[SW: EROTICA OLYMPIA PRESS PARIS FRANCE SEXOLOGY PORNOGRAPHY SEXUALITY SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR AMERICAN LITERATURE MAURICE GIRODIAS SOCIAL HISTORY JEAN GENETErotica, Sexology, Curiosa Velvet Publications Olympia Press]

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Miller, Henry (edited and with an Introduction By Lawrence Durrell; Author's Preface and Commentaries): The Henry Miller Reader, Norfolk, CT New Directions Books 1959
Near Fine in Near Fine DJ Dust Jacket Design By Charles Kaplan; Dust Jacket Photograph of Author By Cedric Wright; Book Design By Stefan Salter

xvi, 400pp. Red cloth, gilt spine lettering, dark gray top stain. Dust jacket price 6.50. SIGNED by MILLER and DURRELL to half-title page. "The best" of Miller selected by his friend Lawrence Durrell, with commentaries by the Author at the head of each selection. Selections from Black Spring, Tropic of Cancer, The Colossus of Maroussi, Sexus, Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymous Bosch, Plexus, Sunday After the War, Max and the White Phagocytes, The Wisdom of the Heart, Remember to Remember, The Books in My Life, The Time of the Assassins divided into the sections, Places, Stories, Literary Essays, Portraits, The Man Himself, Aphorisms, Appendices: Defense of the Freedom to Read, Chronology, Bibliography. " After living with the difficulty for a couple of years, Lawrence Durrell put together an anthology of Henry Miller's work published by New Directions in 1959. 'The Henry Miller Reader', assembled with Durrell's keen eye for ornament, was a collection of Miller's least obscene writings. Durrell had his reasons. As Miller's friend, possibly his best friend, Durrell must have been aghast at the gap between Miller's large European reputation and small American readership. Known to the American literary world as a phenomenon, acclaimed by a fraction of that literary world as a giant and a genius, Miller was still relatively unknown and ninety-nine percent unread by that larger world of reasonably serious readers who camp in the fields just outside the literary world. His most renowned work,'Tropic of Cancer', was unavailable in the U.S. except for copies smuggled in from Europe, and his succeeding works, 'Black Spring' and 'Tropic of Capricorn', were also banned. His later works brought out in the Forties and the Fifties by New Directions were considerably cleaner. Durrell, putting the anthology together in consultation with Miller, came to the well-researched conclusion they could not touch Miller's best writings - in 1959 they were much too obscene for the US Post Office. So 'The Henry Miller Reader' is obliged to do without the powerful prose of 'Tropic of Cancer', 'Tropic of Capricorn', and 'The Rosy Crucifixion' - precisely the heart of Miller's gargantuan talents and vices as a novelist. Under the circumstances, Durrell must have looked for the next best solution: he could at least introduce Henry Miller to a good many serious American readers who hitherto had had only a limited idea of Miller as a pornographer. That was a marrow of readership Durrell's friend deserved to reach, nay, it was his right to reach such people and their duty to read him, and Durrell may have been looking for the way to make a proper introduction. So our literary best of Miller, the Sunday best, the most attractive collection which could be dressed out of the quarter of his least offensive work was gotten together, and there is a wealth of exquisite writing in Durrell's collection. I recommend 'The Henry Miller Reader 'to anyone who loves the work of Flannery O'Connor, William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Thomas Wolfe, Eudora Welty, Saul Bellow, Nabokov, Updike, Cheever, Bill Styron, Thomas Pynchon, John Hawkes, Nelson Algren - it is rich literary writing of the best kind, and proves in passing Miller's collateral right to be regarded as a distinguished literary talent full of character and evocation. Durrell therefore did the best job available to be done..." - Norman Mailer. Book has a few small blemishes to top stain o/w in Fine condition; some minor sunning [less than usual] to dust jacket orange spine, no markings or tears. Signed by Author and Editor First Edition Near Fine Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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