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MILLER, HENRY.
Group of 8 Books and Pamphlets.
Sizes and bindings
vary; condition generally good or better, see notes below.
Vp, vd
[400/600]
Black Spring. 8vo, wrappers creased, backstrip dried. Reprint. Paris, (1938) * Semblance of A
Devoted Past. Folio, wrappers, covers toned, backstrip extremities chipped. First Edition. One of
1150 copies. Berkeley, (1944) * Murder the Murderer. 8vo, printed wrappers. First Edition.
[Big Sur], (1944) * The Plight of the Creative Artist in the United States of America. 8vo,
stapled printed wrappers, jacket corner clipped. First Edition. Signed by the publisher and num-
bered 161 from an unknown issue. [Np], (1944) * Porter.The Happy Rock. 4to, cloth; dust
jacket. Limited Edition, 21/750. Berkeley, (1947) * Patchen: Man of Anger and Light. 8vo,
plain wrappers. First Edition. [New York], (1946) * Maurizius Forever. 4to, cloth. First
Edition. San Francisco, 1946 *Tropic of Cancer. 8vo, wrappers. Reprint. Paris, (1950).
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MORRIS, WILLIAM (translator).
The Odyssey of Homer.
2 volumes. 4to,
rebound in
1
/
2
brown morocco over marbled boards, spine in 6 compartments, gilt-lettered
in 2, top edges gilt, others uncut, by Bradstreet’s; minor rubbing to joints, corners slightly
bumped; contents clean.
FIRST EDITION
, preceding the one volume edition published later
the same year.
London: Reeves &Turner, 1887
[350/500]
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200
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MILLER, HENRY.
Tropic of
Cancer.
8vo, publisher’s silver-lettered cloth,
mild rubbing to spine tips and lower board
edges; dust jacket, faint dampstain along top
edge, few small nicks at fold corners, front
panel
with scattered white speckles,
unclipped; small areas of discoloration to
endpapers, few pages dog-eared, hand-drawn
design on front pastedown indicating “Ex
Libris Arthur Leonard Ross.”
NewYork: Grove Press,
(1961)
[400/600]
FIRST AMERICAN TRADE EDITION
,
INSCRIBED
BY MILLER
to Arthur Leonard Ross below design
on front pastedown: “A very great privilege to be
included in such a collection. Warm Greetings!
Henry Miller 19/2/62.” Arthur Leonard Ross
was the Literary Executor of the Frank Harris
Estate. Harris and Miller both published sexually
explicit works offending the censors through
Maurice Girodias’ Olympia Press in Paris.Tropic
of Cancer was first published in Paris in 1934 by
Olympia’s putative precursor,Obelisk Press.
