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X XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (MILLER, Henry). (FRAENKEL, Michael). Werther's Younger Brother: The Story of an Attitude. New York and Paris: Carrefour (1931). First edition. Stiff wrappers as issued. Lacks the rear wrapper, some erosion to the spine, a fair only copy. One of 400 copies of Fraenkel's pseudonymously published first book, this copy bears a full-page Inscription from Henry Miller: "Dear Georges: This book of my friend Fraenkel strikes me as one of the finest things I have encountered since leaving America. I am living with him at 18 Villa Seurat for the present. We are all dead. Here's to you! Henry. Paris. Nov. 1, '31." We are not sure who Georges is, although a reasonably competent scholar (which we are not) could probably narrow it down pretty easily. From the estate of June Mansfield, Miller's second wife. An interesting association copy. #86303... $1500 X XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Henry Miller's First Book Appearance (MILLER, Henry, et al). NEAGOE, Peter, editor. Americans Abroad: An Anthology. The Hague: Servire Press 1932. First edition, second binding linen and printed yellow paper-covered boards. A little light fraying along the edge of the spine, still a nice, very good copy of this cheaply manufactured volume. Contains Henry Miller's first book appearance, Mademoiselle Claude, in addition to work by Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Gertrude Stein, Robert McAlmon, John Dos Passos, Harry and Caresse Crosby, and many others. #99966...... $250 X XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (Anthology) LAUGHLIN IV, James, edited by. New Directions in Prose & Poetry. Norfolk, CT: New Directions 1936. First edition. Wrappers printed in yellow, red, and black. Owner's initials, just about fine. Contributors include Elizabeth Bishop (preceding her first book by a decade), Wallace Stevens, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, Jean Cocteau, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, E.E. Cummings, Kay Boyle, Lorine Niedecker, Dudley Fitts, Henry Miller, Louis Zukofsky, Eugene Jolas, and others. The first volume in the series, one of 513 copies. #337677... $250

LAUGHLIN, J. New Directions in Prose & Poetry 1936. New York: New Directions 1986. Anniversary edition. Fine in wrappers. Contributions by Wallace Stevens, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, Jean Cocteau, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, E.E. Cummings, Kay Boyle, Elizabeth Bishop, Henry Miller, and Louis Zukofsky. #281165... $35 (Anthology) LAUGHLIN IV, James, edited by. New Directions in Prose & Poetry 1937. Norfolk, CT: New Directions 1937. First edition. Bottom of the boards a little rubbed, else fine in an attractive, very good dustwrapper with the bottom of the front flap cut away perhaps a case of severe price-clipping. The second New Directions anthology and the first to appear in hardcover. Contributors include Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau, William Carlos Williams, E.E. Cummings, Kay Boyle, Lorine Niedecker, Henry Miller, William Saroyan, Delmore Schwartz, and others. #337680... $135 Delta, April 1938 (formerly The Booster). Paris: Delta 1938. Magazine. Some dampstaining else a near very good copy of this very uncommon periodical, a country club newsletter the Villa Seurat group appropriated for their own artistic uses, edited by Alfred Perles, Lawrence Durrell, and Henry Miller and issued as The Booster. This issue, which was the first to appear as Delta features work by Durrell, Perles, Kay Boyle, Antonia White, Dylan Thomas, and several others. #102429... $300

MILLER, Henry and J.P. Cooney (D.H. Lawrence, Reuel Denney). The Phoenix, Vol. 1, No. 1. Woodstock, NY: The Maverick Press 1938. First edition. Small octavo. 139pp. About good with moderately chipped spine, as usual, with tanned wrappers with wear to yapped edges and with spots on front and rear wraps. First issue of this literary magazine headed by Miller with contributions from D.H. Lawrence, Reuel Denney, Oscar Williams, Geoffrey Johnson, Frederick Hunt, and others. #323748... $120 MILLER, Henry and J.P. Cooney (D.H. Lawrence, Anaïs Nin). The Phoenix, Vol. 1, No. 2. Woodstock, NY: The Maverick Press 1938. First edition. Small octavo. 150pp. Very good plus in sunned black wraps with chipping to yapped edges. Second issue of this literary magazine headed by Miller with contributions from D.H. Lawrence, Anaïs Nin, and others. #323751... $100 COONEY, J.P. (D.H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, William Everson). The Phoenix, Vol. 1, No. 3. Woodstock, NY: The Maverick Press 1938. First edition. Small octavo. 155pp. About near fine in sunned black wraps with wear to yapped edges and spine ends. Second issue of this literary magazine headed by Miller with contributions from D.H. Lawrence, William Everson, Kay Boyle, and others. #323753...... $100 MILLER, Henry. Tropic of Capricorn. London: John Calder (1964). First English edition. Fine in very good, price-clipped dustwrapper with small tears around the extremities. #274744... $85

Mesures 3. Paris: Jose Corti 1939. First edition. Near fine in wrappers. Pages uncut. Text in French and English. Includes work by Cotton Mather, Benjamin Franklin, John Paul Jones, Washington Irving, Edgar Poe, Walt Whitmann [sic], Emily Dickinson, Vachal Lindsay, Hart Crane, Langston Hughes, Henry Miller, John Dos Passos, William Carlos Williams, and others. #301727... $125 MILLER, Henry. The Cosmological Eye. Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions (1939). First edition, first state. A word from the publisher by James Laughlin. Label illustrated with an eye pasted to front cloth board. Spine ends lightly tanned, else near fine in good only stained dustwrapper with noticeable chips to the spine ends, and tape offsetting on rear panel. Miller's first American publication. #349390... $600 MILLER, Henry. Tropic of Cancer. Paris: The Obelisk Press (1939). Fifth printing. Printed selfwrappers. Pages browned, a modest tear on the front wrap and first leaf, a nice and pleasing, very good copy with no restoration. Miller's best known work, an acknowledged classic detailing with then-unprecedented sexual candor his expatriate experience in Paris. It was banned for decades in the United States. The first edition consisted of 1000 copies, the next four printings were 500 copies each, so this is one of the first 3000 copies. Because of the fragile binding, early editions are usually found in poor condition. Very scarce. #342980... $950 MILLER, Henry. Tropic of Cancer. New York: Grove Press (1961). First trade edition of the Grove Press edition. Introduction by Karl Shapiro. This is the second American edition, preceded by a small limited edition published in the fall of 1940. Published in an edition of 30,000; by the end of 1961 over a million copies were in print. Faint spotting to top edge stain, else near fine in lightly rubbed, else near fine dustwrapper. A nice copy. #342956... $110

ANDERSON, Sherwood and others. Story: The Magazine of the Short Story, September - October 1941. New York: Story Magazine Inc. 1941. Wrappers. Slight rubbing, else an especially fine and fresh issue. The issue is devoted entirely to Sherwood Anderson, and contains a story by him, as well as pieces on Anderson by Waldo Frank, William Saroyan, Harry Hansen, Paul Rosenfeld, Henry Miller, Kenneth Patchen, Marsden Hartley. James Boyd, Gertrude Stein, Thomas Wolfe, Ben Hecht, and others. #57810... $60 MILLER, Henry. The Colossus of Maroussi. San Francisco: Colt Press (1941). First edition. A small owner's label, and offsetting to several blank leaves, else near fine in near fine dustwrapper with modest soiling and a little darkening to the white portions of the spine. Advance Review Copy with a four-page mimeographed autobiographical statement by Miller laid in, and very scarce thus. #108728... $1200 $840 MILLER, Henry. The Colossus of Maroussi. Hammondsworth: Penguin (1950). First Penguin edition. Good plus in moderately worn, but intact wrappers. Inscribed by the author to his former wife June Mansfield: "For June the very last copy of this edition! Henry 6/21/57 Sent me from Tasmania!" Though Miller and Mansfield, the inspiration and impetus for most of his major works, parted ways in the mid -1930s, they remained close for decades and he continued to send her copies of his books long after their divorce. #38620... $2000

MILLER, Henry. The Wisdom of the Heart. Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions (1941). First edition. Rust colored cloth with paper label pasted on front board and spine. Spine ends lightly bumped, prepublication copy with "publication date, Dec 12, 1941" stamped on the front endpaper, else near fine in a good only dustwrapper with loss to the spine ends and corners, spine darkened with chip in mid-spine. #349436... $200 STEIN, Gertrude, Paul Robeson, and others. L'Arbalète. Revue de littérature imprimée tous les six mois sur la presse à bras de Marc Barbezat. Number 9. Lyon: Chez Marc Barbezat 1944. Limited edition. Copy number 1859 of 2150. Quarto. 266 pp. Printed wrappers. Unopened. With 6 printed sheets of publisher's advertisements laid in. Housed in the original cardboard slipcase. With wear to the slipcase only, else fine. A special anthology of works by American writers, including many African-American authors, translated into French. With contributions by Gertrude Stein, Dorothy Baker, Erskine Caldwell, Donald Henderson Clarke, Frank Tarbeaux, Peter Cheney, Ernest Hemingway, Horace McCoy, Walter Dumaux Edmonds, William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Miller, Damon Runyon, William Saroyan, Nathanael West, Thomas Wolfe, Richard Wright, and Paul Robeson. #344561...... $200 MILLER, Henry. Semblance of a Devoted Past. Berkeley: Bern Porter (1944). First edition. Quarto. Fine in very good dustwrapper with some loss to the extremities of the thin spine. One of 1150 copies. Selected letters of Miller to his longtime friend Emil Schnellock. #56064... $250 $175

MILLER, Henry. Sunday After the War. (Norfolk, Connecticut): New Directions (1944). First issue of both the book and jacket. Fine in just about fine dustwrapper. A beautiful copy of a fragile book, the first issue published in an edition of only 2000 copies. #342952... $300 (Anthology) SCHIMANSKI, Stefan and Henry Treece, editors. Transformation Two. London: Lindsay Drummond 1944. First edition. Fine in very good, rubbed and lightly sunned dustwrapper. This volume in the Transformation series includes poetry by Morwenna Donnelly, an architectural essay by Lewis Mumford and a literary essay by Henry Miller. #74214... $35 MILLER, Henry. What Are You Going To Do About Alf. Berkeley: Bern Porter (1944). Third edition, and the first American edition. 16mo. Stapled wrappers in printed dustwrapper. Fine. One of 738 copies printed, with the offending words hand blacked over. #81663... $150 $105

MOORE, Nicholas and Douglas NEWTON. Atlantic Anthology New Voices. London: Fortune Press (1945). First edition. Very good in very good, soiled, dustwrapper. Includes works by Saul Bellow, Lawrence Durrell, Paul Goodman, Rainer Maria Rilke, Allen Tate, Henry Miller, and others. #302126...... $75 MILLER, Henry. Black Spring. Paris: The Obelisk Press (1945). Fourth edition. First Post-War edition. Third Obelisk edition. Gray printed wrappers. 269pp. Pages age-toned and chipped along the edges, some pages shorter than others due to a binding flaw, tears along the wrapper extremities, thus good only. Shifreen & Jackson, A12e. #349518... $65 MILLER, Henry. Black Spring. New York: Grove Press, Inc. (1963). First edition. Spotting on top page fine edges, else near fine in near fine dustwrapper with the usual scuffing to the panels and wear to the extremities. #349381... $50 MILLER, Henry. Echolalia: Reproductions of Water Colors. Berkeley: Bern Porter 1945. First edition. One page of text and eleven loose illustrations housed in a printed paper portfolio. Portfolio soiled, else very good. Stated limited edition, although limitation not stated. #342947... $35

Ecrivains et Poetes des Etats-Unis. Paris: Fontaine 1945. Reprint. Very good in wrappers. Text in French. Contains works by Steinbeck, Faulkner, Henry Miller, William Carlos Williams, Gertrude Stein, William Saroyan, Erskine Caldwell, Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, Sara Teasdale, Carl Sandburg, and others. #334312... $35 (MILLER, Henry) PORTER, Bern. Henry Miller: A Chronology and Bibliography. Baltimore: Bern Porter / Waverley Press 1945. First edition. Self-wrappers. A bit age-toned and modestly worn, a very good copy. One of 500 numbered copies. This copy Inscribed by Miller: "For Willard Hougland from Henry Miller. 5/8/49 'a suivre.'" #64390... $225 MILLER, Henry. Obscenity and the Law of Reflection. Yonkers: Alicat Book Shop / Hunt Turner 1945. First edition. Stapled wrappers. A bit of age-toning, and a small stain on the front wrap, else a very good plus copy. #81665... $150 $105 MILLER, Henry. The Air-Conditioned Nightmare. New York: New Directions (1945). First edition, in the first issue dustwrapper without Miller's photograph. Near fine with a bit of faint spotting to the boards, in good dustwrapper with chips at the foot of the spine and the upper edge of the front panel. Jackson & Ashley A50a. #69995... $100 $70

(MILLER, Henry). The Happy Rock: A Book About Henry Miller. Berkeley, California: Bern Porter / The Packard Press (1945). First edition. Corners a little worn, else a near fine copy lacking the dustwrapper. An unnumbered copy. Signed by Henry Miller. Although not specified as such, from the library of the author's friend of many years, celebrity-astrologer Sydney Omarr. Omarr was the "astrologer to the stars" and published a daily horoscope that appeared in more than 200 newspapers. His books of horoscopes sold over 50 million copies. Omarr wrote a book on Miller, Henry Miller: His World of Urania, and Miller wrote the introduction to Sydney Omarr's Astrological Guide to 1973 and the liner notes to the record album Presenting Sydney Omarr. Provenance available upon request. #64031...... $500 (MILLER, Henry). The Happy Rock: A Book About Henry Miller. Berkeley, California: Bern Porter / The Packard Press (1945). First edition. Small quarto. Near fine in good dustwrapper with two tape repairs at the spine ends. Limited to 3000 copies: 500 numbered copies distributed in 1945. This is copy #597. Laid in is a Signed drawing by Bern Porter, "Profile of Henry Miller In Bird Cape with California Mountain," that's dated 1963. #279507... $100 (DUNCAN, Robert, Kenneth Patchen, Henry Miller, and Anaïs Nin). LEITE, George, edited by. Circle 7-8. Berkeley, California: [no publisher] 1946. Magazine. Cover by George Barrows. 148pp. Rubbed glossy wrappers with moderate creasing to the corners and a small dampstain. A literary magazine of prose and poetry with contributions from Kenneth Patchen, Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, and the first appearance of Robert Duncan's poem, "The Years as Catches," which predates his first book, Heavenly City, Earthly City. Additionally, as described in the flyer accompanying the later book The Years as Catches, Charles Olson was so impressed reading this poem he insisted Kenneth Rexroth introduce Duncan to him, beginning a lifelong friendship. #328796... $300

THOREAU, Henry David with a preface by Henry Miller. Life Without Principle. (Connecticut): James Ladd Delkin / Stanford University 1946. First edition. One of five hundred copies. Paper label on cloth spine. Small price penned on front pastedown, water stain on top board and page edges, thus good only, lacking the dustwrapper. #349345... $50 MILLER, Henry. Money And How It Gets That Way. [No place]: Bern Porter 1946. First American edition. Owner's name and a couple of tiny notes, tanning to the wrappers, else very good or better. One of 1500 copies. #97126... $150 MILLER, Henry. Of By & About Henry Miller: A Collection of Pieces. Yonkers: Leo Porgie for the Alicat Bookshop Press 1947. First edition. Quarto. Wrappers. Yapped edges chipped and worn, stain on the front wrap, a good plus copy, internally fine. Signed by Miller: "Henry Miller Big Sur, California." From the library of Sidney Omarr. Omarr was the "astrologer to the stars" and published a daily horoscope that appeared in more than 200 newspapers; his books of horoscopes sold over 50 million copies. He started out during the Second World War at the age of 17 when his predictions of horse races, boxing matches, and other sporting events were broadcast on Armed Forces Radio. Omarr and Miller became close friends, sharing the same tastes. Omarr liked to surround himself with beautiful women and was the personal adviser to Jayne Mansfield, Rita Hayworth, Kim Novak, and Mae West, among others. Omarr wrote a book on Miller, Henry Miller: His World of Urania, and Miller wrote the introduction to Sydney Omarr's Astrological Guide to 1973 and the liner notes to the record album Presenting Sydney Omarr. #64051...... $750

(Anthology) (NIN, Anäis, Albert Cossery, Harry Crosby, Charles Olson and Man Ray). Portfolio: An Intercontinental Quarterly, Spring 1947 (Volume II, Portfolio V). (Washington, DC / Paris): Black Sun Press 1947. First edition. Portfolio with 32 loose sheets in paper folder. Edited by Henry Miller, Romare Bearden, Sam Rosenberg, and Harry T. Moore. Folder very good with dampstain, tears, and chips, and split at the fold. Interior sheets show minor signs of toning with the occasional tiny chip or subtle dampstain. Complete set with table of contents and contributors page. Includes works by Harry Thornton Moore, Harry Goode, Conrad Moricand, Edwin J. Becker, Leo Tolstoy, Anäis Nin, Emanuel Carnevali, Albert Cossery, Georg Mann, Rene Batigne, Harry Crosby, Merle Hoyleman, Selden Rodman, Mason Jordan Mason, Charles Olson, René Bélance, Vera Inber, George Leite, Modigliani, Max Ernst, Roberto Fasola, William Calfee, Jim Poe, Scipione, Justin N. Locke, Mirko, Man Ray, Carmelo and Meraud Guevara. #315980... $650 MILLER, Henry. Remember to Remember: Vol. 2 of the Air-Conditioned Nightmare. New York: New Directions (1947). First edition. Foot of the spine a touch sunned, still fine in good dustwrapper rubbed along the folds, one fold repaired along the interior with tape, with a scrape to the spine and some chips to the spinal extremities. Shifreen & Jackson A65a. #69996... $100 $70 MILLER, Henry. The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder. (New York): A New Directions Book (1958). First edition thus. Originally published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1948. Edges lightly worn, owner's name on front fly in a very good price-clipped dustwrapper, faded and chipped along the extremities. #349336... $25

Inscribed to June MILLER, Henry. The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder. (San Francisco): Greenwood Press 1955. First edition by this publisher. Illustrated by Gordon Cook. Near fine in self-wraps with a tiny nick and a little light wear. One of 500 copies. Inscribed by the author to his second wife, June Mansfield, who was by all accounts the inspiration for much of his most important fiction: For June the only imaginative story I ve written. Henry 10/15/56. A superb association. Shifreen & Jackson A66d. #33899... $2750 BRASSAI. Histoire de Marie avec une Introduction par Henry Miller. Paris: Editions du Point du Jour 1949. First edition. Printed wrappers. Fine. Copy number 437 of 2600 copies. Poetry by the important photographer, with an introduction by Henry Miller. A lovely copy. #100009... $200 New Directions in Prose and Poetry 11. New York: James Laughlin/New Directions (1949). First edition. Near fine in very good dustwrapper with the bottom two inches of the spine missing and three short tears along the top edge of the front panel. Includes works from Paul Bowles, Stephen Spender, Henry Miller, Kenneth Rexroth, William Carlos Williams, Tennessee Williams, and others. #302068... $40 MILLER, Henry. Sexus: The Rosy Cruci- fixion: Book One. New York: Grove Press (1965). First edition. Black cloth with gilt lettering bound upsidedown by publisher. Spine ends and corners bumped, else near fine in very good dustwrapper with scuffed panels and short tears to the spine ends and corners. #349435... $50

Inscribed to June MILLER, Henry. The Waters Reglitterized. [No place]: John Kidis 1950. First edition. Stapled wrappers. Split at the bottom of the spine, a very good copy in wrappers with modest edgewear. One of 1000 numbered copies. This is copy #39. The first printed edition of a small manuscript book that Miller had originally prepared for his friend Emil Schnellock in 1939. This copy Inscribed by Miller to June Mansfield, his second wife, and the inspiration for much of his best fiction: "For June a souvenir of Paris & Schnellockian days. Henry. 3/51." #40466... $2500 (MILLER, Henry) WHARTON, J.P. Blueprints for Living. (Woodland Hills CA): (The Author) (1951). First edition. 66pp. Stapled self-wrappers. Lightly edgeworn, very good plus. A small self-help pamphlet, Inscribed by Henry Miller to his second wife, June Mansfield: "June To read in quiet moments, Henry 10/16/56." June Mansfield was by all accounts the inspiration for much of Miller's major writing and they remained friends for several decades after their divorce in 1934. #40465... $1250 MILLER, Henry. Plexus. Tokyo: Keimeisha [1954]. First Japanese edition, and the third overall edition. Volume Two only (not stated, but all published by this publisher). Fine in wrappers, in a lightly soiled, else near fine dustwrapper. Text in English. The first state with Plexus spelled "PLexus" on the tipped in colophon, as per Shifreen & Jackson A83d. #282392... $125 (Anthology) PUMA, Fernando, edited by. 7 Arts Number 3. Indian Hills, Colorado: The Falcon's Wing Press (1955). First edition. Owner name on the front fly, else fine in near fine, price-clipped dustwrapper with some light soiling and light wear to the ends of the spine and the edges of the panels. Contributors include: Robert M. Hutchins, Max Brod, Georges Roualult, Henry Miller, Gilbert Highet, Dorothy Parker, and James T. Farrell. #46953... $85

PERLES, Alfred. My Friend Henry Miller. London: Neville Spearman (1955). First edition. Preface by Henry Miller. Page edges a little browned, very good plus in a chipped, fair only dustwrapper. Inscribed: "For Sydney Omarr" by Miller over a slip Signed by both Miller and Perles. Omarr was the "astrologer to the stars" and published a daily horoscope that appeared in more than 200 newspapers, his books of horoscopes sold over 50 million copies. He started out during the Second World War at the age of 17 when his predictions of horse races, boxing matches, and other sporting events were broadcast on Armed Forces Radio. Omarr and Miller were close friends, sharing the same tastes. Omarr liked to surround himself with beautiful women and was the personal adviser to Jayne Mansfield, Rita Hayworth, Kim Novak, and Mae West, among others. Omarr wrote a book on Miller, Henry Miller: His World of Urania, and Miller wrote the introduction to Sydney Omarr's Astrological Guide to 1973 and the liner notes to the record album Presenting Sydney Omarr. A very nice association. #64030... $275 MILLER, Henry. Nights of Love and Laughter. (New York): Signet (1955). First edition. Paperback original. A few extremely light stress marks else a very fine, unread copy. A collection of his writing, introduced by Kenneth Rexroth, compiled at a time when Miller was becoming increasingly popular despite the fact that his major works were still banned in the United States. #13449... $75 MILLER, Henry. The Time of the Assas- sins: A Study of Rimbaud. (Norfolk CT/NY): New Directions (1956). First American edition, and first edition in English. Cloth and die-cut papercovered boards, without dustwrapper as issued. Spine darkened, corners bumped, pen underlining to a few pages, else very good. #349333... $50

LAUGHLIN, J. (Editor). Jack Kerouac, others. New Directions in Prose and Poetry 16. New York: New Directions (1957). First edition, wrappered issue. Pages browned, thus very good in wrappers. Includes a large number of "lost" poems by William Carlos Williams, as well as contributions by Allen Ginsberg, Denise Levertov, Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac (an advance excerpt from On the Road), Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Eric Bentley, and others. #96845... $15 MILLER, Henry. Quiet Days in Clichy. Paris: Olympia Press 1958. Second edition. Photographs by Brassai. Bound sheets in dustwrapper as issued. Fine in lightly rubbed fine dustwrapper. #274117... $900 (MILLER, Henry) DURRELL, Lawrence, and Alfred Perles. Art and Outrage: A Correspondence about Henry Miller Between Lawrence Durrell and Alfred Perles with Intermissions by Henry Miller. New York: E.P. Dutton 1961. Uncorrected proof of the first American edition consisting of unbound folded and gathered signatures laid into the finished dustwrapper. Fine. Review Slip laid in. #281193... $250

PERLÈS, Alfred and Lawrence Durrell. Art and Outrage: A Correspondence About Henry Miller. London: Putnam 1959. First edition. With an intermission by Henry Miller. Fine in near fine price-clipped dustwrapper. #281366... $80 Evergreen Review No. 10. New York: Evergreen Review 1959. First edition. Very good with some scuffing on the front cover, in wrappers. Contributors include Samuel Beckett, John Rechy, Cynthia Ozick, Henry Miller, William Eastlake, Allen Ginsberg, others. #315227... $30

MILLER, Henry. Reunion in Barcelona. Northwood, Middlesex: Scorpion Press 1959. First English edition. Wrappers. Modest soiling on the front wrap, a little age-toning, still a nice, near fine copy. One of 500 numbered copies. Laid in is a prospectus for other Miller books, with a hand correction by Miller. The book is Inscribed by Miller to Sydney Omarr: "For Sydney Omarr with all good thoughts from Henry Miller. 2/21/59." Omarr was the "astrologer to the stars" and published a daily horoscope that appeared in more than 200 newspapers; his books of horoscopes sold over 50 million copies. He started out during the Second World War at the age of 17 when his predictions of horse races, boxing matches, and other sporting events were broadcast on Armed Forces Radio. Omarr and Miller became close friends, sharing the same tastes. Omarr liked to surround himself with beautiful women and was the personal adviser to Jayne Mansfield, Rita Hayworth, Kim Novak, and Mae West, among others. Omarr wrote a book on Miller, Henry Miller: His World of Urania, and Miller wrote the introduction to Sydney Omarr's Astrological Guide to 1973 and the liner notes to the record album Presenting Sydney Omarr. A very nice association. #64050... $500 RAY, David, edited by. (SHAHN, Ben and others). The Chicago Review Anthology. (Chicago): The University of Chicago Press (1959). First edition. Octavo. xv, 251, [1]pp., illustrated. Near fine in very good dustwrapper with some rubbing. Text pages clean and tight. Includes contributions by Conrad Aiken, E.E. Cummings, Henry Miller, Walter Toman, William Carlos Williams, and others. From the Library of the artists Ben Shahn and Bernarda Bryson Shahn, with an estate label designed by their son, Jonathan Shahn. Also includes an illustrated article by Ben Shahn: "Art as Positive Value." #346321... $65 MILLER, Henry. (Lawrence Durrell). The Henry Miller Reader. [New York: New Directions 1959. Edited with an introduction by Lawrence Durrell. Galley proofs of Durrell's Introduction, and Miller's Author's Preface. Two folio leaves, each folded to make 8 pages. From the library of former New Directions publicity director Edwin V. Erbe. Scarce, possibly unique. #321492... $350

(MILLER, Henry, Anaïs Nin, Richard Aldington, Alfred Perles, Frederic J. Temple, Edwin Mullins, Loys Masson, Armand Guibert, Elisabeth Janvier, Philip Jerome, Serge Gavronsky, Michael Baldwin and Henri-Louis De La Grang) FANCHETTE, Jean, edited by. Two Cities 1, 15 Avril 1959. Paris: (no publisher) 1959. Magazine. Octavo. 88pp. Fine in bright and fresh condition with original belly band with a tiny scrape on the front and a small nick at the fold. The first issue of this literary magazine with a contribution from Henry Miller, "The Durrell of the Black Book days," along with Anaïs Nin, Richard Aldington, Alfred Perles, Frederic J. Temple, Edwin Mullins, Loys Masson, Armand Guibert, Elisabeth Janvier, Philip Jerome, Serge Gavronsky, Michael Baldwin, and Henri-Louis De La Grange. #342739... $50 MILLER, Henry. Nexus (Volume I). Paris: The Obelisk Press (1960). Third edition in variant red cloth binding with gilt on spine and front board. 12mo. 378pp. Small stains on pages' fine foredge, else near fine. #349514... $50

MILLER, Henry. Edited by Emil White. Between Heaven and Hell: A Symposium. Big Sur CA: Emil White 1961. First edition, deluxe clothbound issue. Small square quarto. Boards a bit bowed, as seems usual with this title, and some agetoning to the edges of the boards, else a near fine copy without dustwrapper as issued. Inscribed by Miller to Sydney Omarr: "To Sydney, 'Who's always right!' Henry 11/9/64." Omarr was the "astrologer to the stars" and published a daily horoscope that appeared in more than 200 newspapers; his books of horoscopes sold over 50 million copies. He started out during the Second World War at the age of 17 when his predictions of horse races, boxing matches, and other sporting events were broadcast on Armed Forces Radio. Omarr and Miller became close friends, sharing the same tastes. Omarr liked to surround himself with beautiful women and was the personal adviser to Jayne Mansfield, Rita Hayworth, Kim Novak, and Mae West, among others. Omarr wrote a book on Miller, Henry Miller: His World of Urania, and Miller wrote the introduction to Sydney Omarr's Astrological Guide to 1973 and the liner notes to the record album Presenting Sydney Omarr. A very nice association. #64048... $750 (MILLER, Henry). Bibliography: Henry Miller. Minneapolis: Henry Miller Literary Society (1961). Limited edition. Fine with light fading on the spine in stapled wrappers. Addendum slip laid in. Number 687 of only 1000 copies. #106416... $40

ROSSET, Barney, edited by. Evergreen Review: Volume 5, Number 17, MarchApril 1961. New York: Evergreen Review 1961. First edition. Near fine in card covers with light edgewear. Contains: C. P. Snow: From The Moral Unneutrality of Science, Henry Miller: The World of Sex, and much more. E -290. #280928... $30 MILLER, Henry. Henry Miller in selbst- zeugnissen und bilddokumenten. (Hamburg): Rowohlt Verlag (1961). First edition. Wrappers. Pages browned, some dogearring to a few pages, a very good copy. Inscribed by Miller: "For Sydney Omarr with my best! Henry Miller 16/10/61." Omarr was the "astrologer to the stars" and published a daily horoscope that appeared in more than 200 newspapers, his books of horoscopes sold over 50 million copies. He started out during the Second World War at the age of 17 when his predictions of horse races, boxing matches, and other sporting events were broadcast on Armed Forces Radio. Omarr and Miller were close friends, sharing the same tastes. Omarr liked to surround himself with beautiful women and was the personal adviser to Jayne Mansfield, Rita Hayworth, Kim Novak, and Mae West, among others. Omarr wrote a book on Miller, Henry Miller: His World of Urania, and Miller wrote the introduction to Sydney Omarr's Astrological Guide to 1973 and the liner notes to the record album Presenting Sydney Omarr. A very nice association. #64028... $450 BAXTER, Annette Kar. Henry Miller: Expatriate. (Pittsburgh): University of Pittsburgh Press (1961). First edition. Near fine in lightly soiled wrappers. #273545... $22

MILLER, Henry. The Books in My Life. London: Peter Owen Limited (1961). Second impression. Neat owner's name penned on front fly, small bookstore label on front pastedown, else very good in very good dustwrapper with short tears to the extremities. #349452... $30 (Anthology) MILLER, Henry. The International Henry Miller Letter, No. 1, June 1961; No. 2, December 1961; No. 3, August 1962; No. 4, December 1962; No. 5, August 1963; No. 6, April 1964. (Nijmegen, Netherlands: The International Henry Miller Letter 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964). First edition. Six issues (of seven): No. 1, June 1961; No. 2, December 1961; No. 3, August 1962; No. 4 December 1962; No. 5, August 1963; No. 6, April 1964. Illustrated. Nos. 1, 3-6 some age toning thus near fine in stapled wrappers; No. 2 heavy tanning to the front wrapper plus puncture marks thus very good in stapled wrappers. #106205... $100 (Art) MILLER, Henry, Lawrence Durrell and Bissiere Brassaï. Hans Reichel 1892-1958. (Paris): Editions Jeanne Bucher (1962). First edition. Square quarto. Text in French. Wrappers with French folded jacket and wraparound band. Abrasion to the crown, damaging the top of the spine and the dustwrapper else very good plus. A selection of the artist's work with memorial appreciations by the contributing authors. #40515... $85 $59.50

GELRE, Henk Van (MILLER, Henry). Henry Miller Legende en Waarheid. Tielt / Den Haag: Lannoo (1962). First edition. Wrappers. Page edges a little browned, some modest disturbance to the laminate on the wrappers, a very good or better copy. Inscribed by Gelre to Sydney Omarr. Omarr was the "astrologer to the stars" and published a daily horoscope that appeared in more than 200 newspapers, his books of horoscopes sold over 50 million copies. He started out during the Second World War at the age of 17 when his predictions of horse races, boxing matches, and other sporting events were broadcast on Armed Forces Radio. Omarr and Miller were close friends, sharing the same tastes. Omarr liked to surround himself with beautiful women and was the personal adviser to Jayne Mansfield, Rita Hayworth, Kim Novak, and Mae West, among others. Omarr wrote a book on Miller, Henry Miller: His World of Urania, and Miller wrote the introduction to Sydney Omarr's Astrological Guide to 1973 and the liner notes to the record album Presenting Sydney Omarr. #64029...... $175 PERLES, Alfred. Henry Miller: My Friend. New York City: Belmont Books (1962). First edition. Fine in wrappers except for a small tear on the front end paper. #273570... $18 MILLER, Henry. L'oscenita e la legge di riflessione. (Milan and New York): All'Insegna De Pesce D'Oro and New Directions (1962). First edition. 32mo. Fine in wrappers in fine dustwrapper and fine wraparound band. One of 2000 numbered copies. #282115... $150

MILLER, Henry. Stand Still Like the Hummingbird. New York: New Directions (1962). Uncorrected proof. Very good, missing the front cover, in a comb binding. #301714... $300 MILLER, Henry. Stand Still Like The Hummingbird!. New York: New Directions 1962. Folded uncorrected long galleys printed rectos only. A little age-toning to the outside galley and a small tear to one leaf, else near fine. Prepared for the author and publisher's use, this is one of what must be only a handful of copies; we've never seen another. #305650... $3500 (Anthology) MILLER, Henry. The International Henry Miller Letter, No. 4, December 1962. (Nijmegen, Netherlands: The International Henry Miller Letter 1962). First edition. No. 4, December 1962. Illustrated. Some age-toning else fine in stapled wrappers. #103749... $30 GIRODIAS, Maurice (editor). The New Olympia: A Review Published in Paris by the Olympia Press: Number Three. France: Girodias 1962. Very good in wrappers, a paperback. Contains Mark Twain, Kaja, Henry Miller, Terry Southern and more. Text clean. Illustrated in black and white photos and drawings. Corners rubbed. Small tears on spine ends. Shelf rubbing to cover. #177814... $25

PLIMPTON, George, edited by (Ezra Pound and Henry Miller). The Paris Review: Number 28, Summer / Fall 1962. New York: The Paris Review 1962. First edition. Pictorial wrappers. Volume twenty-eight only. Extremities lightly worn, else near fine. Interview with Ezra Pound and Henry Miller. Also, Samuel Beckett, Patrick Bowles, and more. #349077... $25 (Art) MILLER, Henry. Watercolors, Drawings and His Essay "The Angel Is My Watermark". New York: Harry N. Abrams (1962). First edition. Square folio. Unused cardboard mats in rear pocket. Very slight soiling, else fine in fine printed acetate dustwrapper, in publisher's original printed shipping carton. An uncommon art book in much better condition than usually found. #329317... $250 DURRELL, Lawrence and Henry Miller. A Private Correspondence. New York: E.P. Dutton 1963. First edition. Edited by George Wickes. Very good in pictorial wrappers housed in a very good slipcase with a floral design paper cover. Many of the signatures are loose. #301728... $50 MILLER, Henry, John Rechy and Sam- uel Beckett. Grove Press Catalog Spring 1963. New York: Grove Press 1963. Catalog. Octavo. (7)pp. A bit of toning to the printed wraps, near fine. Featuring new books by Henry Miller, John Rechy, Samuel Beckett, and others. #335851... $50

MILLER, Henry. The International Henry Miller Letter, No. 5, August 1963. (Nijmegen, Netherlands: The International Henry Miller Letter 1963). First edition. No. 5, August 1963. Illustrated. Some age toning else fine in stapled wrappers. #342418...... $30 (BURROUGHS, William, Charles Bukowski, Henry Miller, Robert Creeley, Jean Genet, Gary Snyder, Kenneth Patchen, Michael McClure, Diane Wakowski, Harold Norse, Larry Eigner, Anselm Hollo, et al.) WEBB, Jon Edgar, edited by. The Outsider Vol. 1, No. 3. New Orleans: Loujon Press 1963. Magazine. 138pp. Wrappers illustrated with photo of Charles Bukowski. Some modest browning to the pages and a diagonal crease on the front wrap, very good. Issue three of this short lived but influential periodical. Contributions by William Burroughs, Bukowski, Henry Miller, Robert Creeley, Jean Genet, Gary Snyder, Kenneth Patchen, Michael McClure, Diane Wakowski, Harold Norse, Larry Eigner, Anselm Hollo, and many more. Seemingly the scarcest issue of the magazine. #321204... $350 PLIMPTON, George, edited by (Katherine Anne Porter, Malcolm Lowry). The Paris Review: Number 29, Winter / Spring 1963. New York: The Paris Review 1963. First edition. Pictorial wrappers. Volume twenty-nine only. Extremities lightly worn, else near fine. Interview with Katherine Anne Porter. Also, Malcolm Lowry, Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell, Robert Creeley, and more. #349078... $30

SOUTHERN, Terry, Richard Seaver, and Alexander Trocchi. Writers in Revolt: An Anthology. New York: Frederick Fell (1963). First edition. Fine in very near fine, price-clipped dustwrapper with very slight sunning at the crown. Contributors include Allen Ginsberg, Marquis de Sade, Evan S. Connell, Charles Baudelaire, Feodor Dostoevsky, Herman Hesse, Arthur Artaud, Celine, Malaparte, Henry Miller, Irish Murdoch, Jean Genet, Chapman Mortimer, William Gaddis, Charles Foster, Edward Dahlberg, H.L. Mencken, Hubert Selby, William Burroughs, Eugene Ionesco, and Samuel Beckett. #278640... $35 MILLER, Henry. The International Henry Miller Letter, No. 6, April 1964. (Nijmegen, Netherlands: The International Henry Miller Letter 1964). First edition. No. 6, April 1964. Illustrated. Some age-toning else fine in stapled wrappers. #342419...... $30 PLIMPTON, George, edited by (Norman Mailer). The Paris Review: Number 31, Winter / Spring 1964. New York: The Paris Review 1964. First edition. Pictorial wrappers. Volume thirty-one only. Wrappers lightly worn, else near fine. Interview with Norman Mailer and Louis-Ferdinand Celine. Also, Jack Kerouac, Henry Miller, James Dickey, Robert Bly, W.S. Merwin, and more. This is two copies, one being the corrected version with a note from the publisher laid in. #349081... $85

(Anthology) GIRODIAS, Maurice, edited by. The Olympia Reader. New York: Grove Press (1965). First edition. Fine in near fine, lightly soiled dustwrapper with some light wear to the ends of the spine and edges of the panels. Contributors include: Henry Miller, Paul Ableman, Beauregard de Farniente, Marcus Van Heler, James Sherwood, J.P. Donleavy, Lawrence Durrell, Harriet Daimler, Charles Henri Ford, Samuel Beckett, John Cleland, Pauline Reage, Ataullah Mardaan, Jean Genet, Rank Harris, Henry Jones, Marquis de Sade, William S. Burroughs, Philip O'Connor, Maurice Girodias, Hamilton Drake, We We Meng, Chester Himes, Raymond Queneau, Jean Genet, Gregory Corso, and Harriet Daimler. #46909... $45 MILLER, Henry. The World of Sex. Covina, California: Collectors Publications (1967). Fifth American printing. Third piracy. Mass market paperback. 125pp. Age-toned, bottom corner creased, else very good. States first American edition, but is actually the fifth American edition. Shifreen & Jackson, A25x. #349544... $40 (Graphic Arts) GROSZ, George. (MILLER, Henry). Ecce Homo. New York: Grove Press (1966). First Grove Press edition, and first edition with introduction by Henry Miller. Folio. Near fine copy lacking the dustwrapper. From the library of the artists Ben Shahn and Bernarda Bryson Shahn, with an estate label designed by their son, Jonathan Shahn. #345283... $200

(KEROUAC, Jack, Allen Ginsberg, Henry Miller, and others). Edited by ROSSET, Barney. Evergreen: Volume 10, Number 40, April 1966. New York: Evergreen Review 1966. [Periodical]. Quarto wrappers. 100pp. Light scuffing to wraps, else near fine. Featuring: "Satori in Paris - II" by Jack Kerouac, "Kral Majales" by Allen Ginsberg, "Man in the Zoo: George Grosz' Ecce Homo": a portfolio of a color plate, and drawings by Henry Miller, and more. #353673... $25 (CREELEY, Robert, Jonathan Williams, Don Allen, Jack Spicer, Ed Dorn, Henry Miller et al.) SINCLAIR, John and Ron Caplan, edited by. Whe're/1. Detroit, Michigan: The Artists Workshop Press 1966. Quarto. Stapled mimeographed wrappers. Pages browned, and a few tiny tears, very near fine. A magazine edited by Ron Caplain and John Sinclair, co-founder of the White Panthers Party and one-time manager of the band MC5. Contents include an interview with Robert Creeley and contributions from Jonathan Williams, Don Allen, Jack Spicer, Ed Dorn, Henry Miller, Sinclair, and others. Only issue of this countercultural literary magazine. #302175... $150 WICKES, George, edited by. Henry Miller and the Critics. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press (1967). Third printing. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dustwrapper. #349391... $30

DICK, Kenneth C. Henry Miller: Colossus of One. Sittard, Netherlands: Alberts 1967. First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with tiny tears at the spinal extremities. Number 748 of only 1100 copies. Signed by the author. #110501... $50 CHERNOV, Vladimir and Marcel Girard. Splendors of Moscow and Its Surroundings. Cleveland: World Publishing Co. (1967). First edition. Very good with light dust-soiling to the covers, lacking the dustwrapper. Inscribed to June Mansfield Miller (Henry Miller's second wife) by an unidentified Robert who felt that June had "truly enriched my life." #75654... $150 GORDON, William A. The Mind and Art of Henry Miller. Louisiana: Louisiana State University (1967). First edition. Foreword by Lawrence Durrell. Advanced copy with publisher's slip laid in. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a small chip on the top front edge. #278015... $50 LIDCHI, Maggi. Man of Earth. New York: William Morrow (1968). First American edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Henry Miller blurb. #60497... $30

(DURRELL, Lawrence). The Booster: September 1937 - Easter 1939. New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation (1968). Reprint. Spine somewhat tilted, thus very good. A reprinted collection of this very uncommon periodical, a country club newsletter the Villa Seurat group appropriated for their own artistic uses, edited by Alfred Perlès, Lawrence Durrell, and Henry Miller, and issued as The Booster and later as Delta. Signed by Lawrence Durrell. Includes work by Durrell, Miller, Perlès, Anaïs Nin, William Saroyan, Dylan Thomas, and others. #362689... $500 For June from Henry MILLER, Henry. To Paint Is To Love Again Including Semblance of a Devoted Past. New York: Grossman 1968. First edition. Folio. Small dampstain at the bottom of the front board else fine in near very good dustwrapper with scattered light stains and general wear. Inscribed by Miller to his second wife June Mansfield: "For June from Henry. Note: Unfortunately the reproductions are not good weak and off color sorry!" A collection of Miller's painted art, along with the text of a previously published limited edition that comprises Miller's correspondence with longtime friend Emil Schnellock about art and painting. A great association. #40345... $2500 MILLER, Henry. Tropic of Cancer on Trial: A Case History of Censorship. New York: Grove Press (1968). First printing. Small stain on bottom edge of the front board, else very good or better in very good, price-clipped dustwrapper with small nicks on the spine ends. #349441... $12

GORDON, William A. Writer & Critic: A Correspondence with Henry Miller. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press (1968). First edition. Dustwrapper has small tear on bottom, front edge, else book and dustwrapper both fine. #105078...... $30 (MILLER, Henry) NELSON, Jane A. Form And Image In The Fiction Of Henry Miller. Detroit: Wayne State U. 1970. First edition. Fine in fine, price-clipped dustwrapper. #41472... $10 MILLER, Henry. Journey to an Antique Land. Big Sur, California: Ben Ben Press [1970]. First edition. One of 2000 copies. Fine in stapled wrappers. 32pp. #302040... $45 MILLER, Henry and George Belmont. Henry Miller Face to Face: Conversations with George Belmont. London: Sidgwick and Jackson (1971). First edition. Fine in near fine, slightly edgeworn dustwrapper. Advance review copy with slip laid in. #283915... $35

(MILLER, Henry). RENKEN, Maxine. A Bibliography of Henry Miller, 1945-1961. New York: Haskell House 1972. Reprint. Octavo. Cloth. Fine. Generic bookplate that has been Signed by Miller on the front free endpaper. #342954... $175 MILLER, Henry and George Belmont. Henry Miller in Conversation with George Belmont. Chicago: Quadrangle Books 1972. First edition. Fine in near very good dustwrapper with a chip at the crown and some sunning. Inscribed by Miller: "For Sydney Omarr from his faithful friend, disciple, and quondam bamboozler^. Henry 9/5/72. ^ca vent dire 'flim-flam artist.'" Omarr was the "astrologer to the stars" and published a daily horoscope that appeared in more than 200 newspapers. His books of horoscopes sold over 50 million copies. He started out during the Second World War at the age of 17 when his predictions of horse races, boxing matches, and other sporting events were broadcast on Armed Forces Radio. Omarr and Miller were close friends, sharing the same tastes. Omarr liked to surround himself with beautiful women and was the personal adviser to Jayne Mansfield, Rita Hayworth, Kim Novak, and Mae West, among others. Omarr wrote a book on Miller, Henry Miller: His World of Urania, and Miller wrote the introduction to Sydney Omarr's Astrological Guide to 1973 and the liner notes to the record album Presenting Sydney Omarr. A very nice association. #64025... $400

June's Copy MILLER, Henry. On Turning Eighty. Santa Barbara: Capra Press 1972. First edition, paperbound issue (published simultaneously with a hardbound issue of 200 copies). Light offsetting to one page, one small correction in the text in an unknown hand, else just about fine in wrappers. Inscribed by the author to his second wife, June Mansfield: "For June from Henry 10/31/72 My books are getting smaller and smaller now. Soon I will shut up completely!" A wonderful association. #32732... $3500 MILLER, Henry. Reflections on the Death of Mishima. Santa Barbara: Capra Press 1972. First edition, wrappered issue. Slight age-toning, still fine in wrappers. Signed by the author on the title page. #349396... $150 MANNING, Hugo. The It and The Odyssey of Henry Miller. London: Enitharmon Press 1972. First published edition. Slight toning and some offsetting on rear wrap, very good in wrappers. Ownership signature of Henry Miller scholar Bertrand Mathieu. One of 500 copies. #313670... $30 MERRILD, Knud. (Henry Miller). All The Animals In The Zoo. (London): Village Press (1973). First separate edition (an essay about Henry Miller that originally appeared in Happy Rock. Tall octavo. Glossy wrappers with reproduction of a Henry Miller watercolor on front cover. Wrappers a little dust-soiled, else fine copy. Henry Miller scholar Bertrand Mathieu's copy, with his ownership signature & one annotation in the text. #312332... $35

SCHNELLOCK, Emil. (Henry Miller). Just a Brooklyn Boy. (London): Village Press (1973). First separate edition. Tall octavo. Glossy wrappers with a reproduction of a Henry Miller watercolor on the front wrap. Covers slightly dust-soiled, else a fine copy. Henry Miller scholar Bertrand Mathieu's copy, with his ownership signature and annotations in the text. Previously, this copy belonged to Kenneth Hopkins, biographer of John Cowper Powys and his brothers, with his ownership signature. #312334... $45 MILLER, Henry. Just Wild About Harry: A Melo-Melo in Seven Scenes. (New York): New Directions (1973). First edition. Fine in slightly age-toned, else fine dustwrapper. #106231... $75 MILLER, Henry. [Lithograph]: "D'apres Schatz." 1973. Original lithograph in black and orange. Image size: 11.75" x 18.5" (with margins 16" x 23.25"). Glazed and framed. Hand Inscribed, titled, signed, and dated by Miller below image: "For Sydney Omarr 'D'apres Schatz Henry Miller 1973." Scene of the inside of an apartment with a naked man smoking on a bed, while a naked woman washes at a sink, and with a horse in the foreground. Unexamined out of the frame, but all indications are that the lithograph is in fine condition. Old label, contemporary with the frame, indicating the lithograph was framed in Santa Monica, California. Omarr was a close friend of Miller's and the "astrologer to the stars." He published a daily horoscope that appeared in more than 200 newspapers and his books of horoscopes sold over 50 million copies. He started out during the Second World War at the age of 17 when his predictions of horse races, boxing matches, and other sporting events were broadcast on Armed Forces Radio. Like Miller, Omarr surrounded himself with beautiful women and was the personal adviser to Jayne Mansfield, Rita Hayworth, Kim Novak, and Mae West, among others. #97795... $4500

MILLER, Henry. [Lithograph]: "Linear Fantasy." 1973. Original lithograph in black and orange. Image measures 11.75" x 18.25" (with margins 16" x 23.25"). Glazed and framed. Hand Inscribed, titled, Signed, and dated by Miller below the image: "For Sydney Omarr Linear Fantasy Henry Miller 1973." Surreal image with discernible human faces. Unexamined out of the frame, but all indications are that the lithograph is in fine condition. On the reverse is an old label, contemporary with the frame, indicating the lithograph was framed in Santa Monica, California. Omarr was a close friend of Miller's and famous as the "astrologer to the stars." He published a daily horoscope that appeared in more than 200 newspapers, and his books of horoscopes sold over 50 million copies. #97796... $4500 Inscribed by Henry to June (MILLER, Henry) SNYDER, Robert. This is Henry, Henry Miller from Brooklyn: Conversations with the Author from The Henry Miller Odyssey. Los Angeles: Nash Publishing (1974). First edition. Quarto. Fine in very good plus dustwrapper with one longish tear. Inscribed by Miller to his second wife June Mansfield: "For June, Merry Xmas! Henry 1974." Mansfield was perhaps Miller's most important influence, and his muse for most of his earliest and most famous works. In the text of this book Miller relates: "...I was married a few years when I finally ran into 'Mona,' in my books, you know, in the dance hall, and we were caught in bed one morning when I thought my wife had gone on a vacation... So I left her immediately and went to live with June 'Mona.' And it was through my new wife that I got the courage to make my final decisions and to live by them... she used to say to me, 'Look, give up that job; Start to write.'" A nice association. #54401... $2250

MILLER, Henry and Wallace Fowlie. Letters of Henry Miller and Wallace Fowlie (1943-1972). New York: Grove Press (1975). First edition. Very good in an about very good dustwrapper. Inscribed by Wallace Fowlie to translator and critic Bertrand Mathieu: "For Bert, in memory of our first encounter - but also in memory of so many bonds that unite us. Wallace 27 July 1976." With Mathieu's ownership signature, and several notes in the text and on the endpapers. #99296... $100 MILLER, Henry. My Life and Times. New York: Playboy Press (1975). First edition. Large quarto. Spine a little faded, else fine in silk covered boards in slipcase, lacking the dustwrapper. One of 500 numbered copies Signed by the author, this copy is designated as "Copy P" and in addition to being signed is additionally Inscribed by the author to Sydney Omarr: "For Sydney Omarr. Cheers! 1/13/72." Omarr was the "astrologer to the stars" and published a daily horoscope that appeared in more than 200 newspapers. His books of horoscopes sold over 50 million copies. He started out during the Second World War at the age of 17 when his predictions of horse races, boxing matches, and other sporting events were broadcast on Armed Forces Radio. Omarr and Miller became close friends, sharing the same tastes. Omarr liked to surround himself with beautiful women and was the personal adviser to Jayne Mansfield, Rita Hayworth, Kim Novak, and Mae West, among others. Omarr wrote a book on Miller, Henry Miller: His World of Urania, and Miller wrote the introduction to Sydney Omarr's Astrological Guide to 1973 and the liner notes to the record album Presenting Sydney Omarr. A very nice association. #64052... $1500 MILLER, Henry. My Life and Times. New York: Playboy Press (1975). First edition, trade issue. Large quarto. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a touch of rubbing. A lovely copy. #91723... $85

MAILER, Norman. Genius and Lust: A Journey Through the Major Writings of Henry Miller. New York: Grove Press (1976). First printing. 576pp. Cloth soiled, corners bumped, else very good in very good minus dustwrapper with chipped edges. #349385... $25 MILLER, Henry. Henry Miller's Book of Friends. Santa Barbara: Capra Press 1976. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A tribute to friends of long ago. #315599... $65 [MILLER, Henry] MATHIEU, Bertrand. Orpheus in Brooklyn: Orphism, Rimbaud, and Henry Miller. The Hague-Paris: Mouton 1976. First edition. Octavo. Fine. Signed by the author on the title page with preface by Wallace Fowlie. Lacks the original dustwrapper; replaced with color copy and noted as such on the front fly written in the author's hand: "This is a mere color xerox of the original dust jacket. B.M." #316684... $35 DETRO, Gene. Patchen: The Last Interview: Number Forty: Capra Chapbook Series. Santa Barbara: Capra Press 1976. First edition. 12mo. 31pp. Number forty only. Foreword by Miriam Patchen. Afterword by Henry Miller. Fine in card covers. #281966... $50

MILLER, Henry. Autographed Note Signed. (No place: no publisher) [March 12,1977]. Autographed note. 24mo. Fine. Brief note from Henry Miller, Signed with his first name, asking Bert Mathieu to dinner, as well as the scrawled telephone number of Rupert Pole, who Miller notes underneath the number, is Anaïs Nin's husband. The note, written on the back of a message pad sheet, was left by Miller for Matheiu the morning after their first long conversation together, as noted by Matheiu in red pen. Mathieu was an author, as well as friend and translator for Miller. #316812...... $350 (Anthology) MILLER, Henry, Erica Jong, Thomas Sanchez and Kay Boyle. Four Visions of America. Santa Barbara: Capra (1977). First edition. Boards very slightly splayed else fine in near fine dustwrapper with a bit of the rubbing so often found on the silver-foil jacket. One of 225 numbered copies Signed by all four of the contributors. #69091... $60 (MILLER, Henry). Lost Generation Jour- nal: Volume IV, Number 3, Winter, 1976-77: Henry Miller Issue. Carbondale: Literary Enterprises, Inc. 1977. First edition, Volume 4, Number 3, Winter, 1976-77. Near fine in stapled wrappers. #105945... $60 MILLER, Henry. Henry Miller Returns to Big Sur. Big Sur, CA: Coast Gallery 1978. Exhibition Catalogue. Some light foxing and soiling, else near fine in stapled wrappers. Includes color reproductions of several paintings. Inscribed by the author "For Brenda!" on the front wrap, and with a small notation in the text next to the description of one of his lithographs. #51083...... $250

MILLER, Henry. Joey: A Loving Portrait of Alfred Perlès Together With Some Bizarre Episodes Relating to the Other Sex: Volume III Book of Friends. Santa Barbara: Capra Press 1979. First edition. Pictorial wrappers. 126pp. Volume three only of the Book of Friends. Corners flared, else near fine. Advance review copy with publisher's slip and business card laid in. #349512... $35 (Anthology) MILLER, Henry, et. al. The Capra Chapbook Anthology. (Santa Barbara): Capra Press 1979. First edition. Near fine in lightly soiled wrappers. Contributors include Henry Miller, Faye Kicknosway, Lawrence Durrell, Ross Macdonald, Ray Bradbury, Victory Perera, Colin Wilson, James Houston, William Nolan, Ursula Le Guin, and Mark Vinz. #45118... $15 MARTIN, Jay. Always Merry and Bright: The Life of Henry Miller. (England, New York): Penguin Books (1980). Reprint. 560pp. Trade paperback. Spine creased and cocked, else very good. #349438...... $10 (Literary Criticism) MILLER, Henry, Edited by Seamus Cooney. Notes On "Aaron's Rod" And Other Notes On Lawrence From The Paris Notebooks. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press 1980. First limited edition. Very good Hardcover, 1 of 750 copies. Pictorial papercovered boards with paper label on cloth spine. Light remainder mark on bottom pages' fine edge, else near fine. #349404... $40

MILLER, Henry. The World of Lawrence: A Passionate Appreciation. Santa Barbara: Capra Press 1980. First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with sticker removed from front panel. #349434... $25 (MILLER, Henry). Joseph the Provider Books: Catalogue Twenty-Two, Henry Miller. Santa Barbara: Joseph the Provider Books [circa 1982]. First edition. Pictorial wrappers. Spine faded, light stains on rear wrap, else very good or better. A descriptive catalogue of the Dr. James F. O'Roark Collection of the Works of Henry Miller. #349510...... $20 MILLER, Henry. From Your Capricorn Friend: Henry Miller and the Stroker, 1978-1980. (New York): A New Directions Book (1984). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Publisher's publicity letter laid in. #349327... $50 VENUS, Brenda. (Henry Miller). Dear, Dear Brenda: The Love Letters of Henry Miller to Brenda Venus. New York: William Morrow and Company (1986). First edition. Very good or better in very good plus dustwrapper. Hardcover and dustwrapper both lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners, slight fading to top edges of the book, and with dustwrapper lightly soiled and worn. #349403... $15

MILLER, Henry (Bertrand Mathieu). Lettres d'amour à Brenda Venus. Paris: Presses de la Renaissance (1986). First edition. Glossy, pictorial card covers. Text in French. Pen notations on a few pages, else very good. Signed on the front fly by Bertrand Mathieu, author, poet, and friend of the author. #271615... $35 WINSLOW, Kathryn. Henry Miller: Full of Life. Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tarcher (1986). First edition. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Spine ends bumped, else near fine in near fine dustwrapper with a tear on the bottom edge of the front panel, and nicks to the spine ends. A memoir of America's uninhibited literary genius. #349383... $15 MILLER, Henry. Edited by Joyce Howard. Letters from Henry Miller to Hoki Tokuda Miller. London: Robert Hale (1990). First British edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. #349311... $35 MILLER, Henry. Crazy Cock. New York: Grove Weidenfeld 1991. First edition. Uncorrected proof. Glossy, illustrated cover. Fine. Signed by Bertrand Mathieu, writer and poet, a friend of Henry Miller, on the half-title page. #271607... $50

BAUER, Jerry. Henry Miller. New York: Grove Weidenfeld [circa 1991]. Promotional postcard featuring Bauer's portrait of the author. Fine. #76484... $10 FERGUSON, Robert. Henry Miller: A Life. New York: W.W. Norton & Company (1991). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a small crease on the rear panel. #106680... $40 DEARBORN, Mary V. The Happiest Man Alive: A Biography of Henry Miller. New York: Simon & Schuster (1991). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. #106690... $25 GOTTESMAN, Ronald. Critical Essays on Henry Miller. New York: G.K. Hall & Co. 1992. First edition. Blue cloth gilt. Fine, issued without dustwrapper. Inscribed by the editor Gottesman to contributor and Henry Miller scholar Bertrand Mathieu, using the whole front fly. #307546... $85

FINE, Antony, edited by (Henry Miller). Henry Miller: Stories, Essays, Travel Sketches. New York: MJF Books (1992). First edition. 739pp. Corners lightly bumped, else fine in near fine, lightly scuffed dustwrapper. #349523... $25 SHIFREEN, Lawrence J. and Roger Jackson, edited by. Henry Miller: A Bibliography of Primary Sources. (Ann Arbor and Glen Arm): Shifreen & Jackson 1993. First edition. One of 815 copies of the American edition, unsigned. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering on the front board and spine. 1,022 pp. Fine with an original preface by Henry Miller. #349380... $100 JONG, Erica (Henry Miller). The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller. New York: Turtle Bay Books 1993. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. #107986... $30

MILLER, Henry. The Mezzotints. Ann Arbor: Roger Jackson 1993. First edition, the "Library Edition" issue. Historical introduction by Roger Jackson. Octavo. Illustrated, printed wrappers in raspberry cloth portfolio with 8 loose broadsides laid in.one of 400 copies. Fine. Inscribed by the publisher to Bertrand Mathieu, a Henry Miller scholar: "Bert, A much more managable piece of work as compared with the Bibliography - Hope you like it! Roger Jackson, 2/16/94". #311766... $150 DeSALVO, Louise. Conceived with Malice: Literature as Revenge in the Lives and Works of Virginia and Leonard Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, Djuna Barnes and Henry Miller. (New York: Dutton 1994). Uncorrected proof. Near fine in lightly soiled wrappers. #273056... $20 STANDISH, Craig Peter. Henry Miller: A Book of Tributes 1931-1994. Orlando, Florida: Standish Books 1994. First edition. One of 875 copies. Limited edition. Compiled, edited, introduced, and published by Craig Peter Standish. Fine in cloth as issued. #63080... $25

MILLER, Henry and James Laughlin. Henry Miller and James Laughlin: Selected Letters. New York: W.W. Norton (1995). First edition. Edited by George Wickes. Fine in fine dustwrapper. #349392... $60 BRASSAÏ. Henry Miller: The Paris Years. New York: Arcade (1995). First English edition. Translated from the French by Timothy Bent. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Fine in fine dustwrapper. #279084... $35 BRASSAÏ. Henry Miller: Happy Rock. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (2002). Uncorrected proof. Fine in wrappers. #280761... $30