colossus maroussi, Copia autografata (11 risultati)

Folded Sheet. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good+. Reprint, folded sheets, signed by Jackson (publisher) and limited no. 7/25, has slightest hint of edgewear, otherwise a sharp, clean Near Fine copy in VG+ envelope which has very slight wear to corners.

Octavo. [4], 244 pp. Quarter heavy-weave linen cloth over aqua floral-decorated boards, printed paper spine label. Spine label faded and spotted, light dampstains on front and back boards, never extending to text. Donor's inscription on front free endpaper. A good, tight copy Though unstated, this is one of 100 copies, signed by the author on the third blank leaf. Issued without dust wrapper.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Includes dust jacket. Signed. First Edition. First ed. SIGNED and inscribed by Miller on ffep. Tanning to jacket, minor chipping at top back of jacket. Pages/boards clean, binding tight.

Softcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Eighth printing. Mass market paperback. Tiny sticker shadow on the rear wrapper, tiny faint crease on the cover, near fine. Briefly Inscribed by Miller to bibliographer, Donald Gallup: "For Donald Gallup. Henry Miller. 6/9/72." Laid in is a carbon copy of a note, dated June 25, 1973 from Gallup to Bernardine Szold-Fritz thanking her for getting Miller to inscribe the book for him. Szold-Fritz was a Jewish-American writer who established the International Art Theater in Shanghai, China and was a Paris correspondent for *The New Yorker* before setting up her salon in Hollywood which brought together many literary and artistic personalities. First published as New Directions Paperbook number 75 in 1958.

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. First separate edition. Designed, illustrated, and bound by Norman Gross. Tall narrow quarto. [8]pp. String-tied wrappers. Very good with stitching loose, creases to the wraps and faint stain to lower margin of the covers and text. Inscribed by Norman Gross one month after publication: "to Mel and Deirdre Wiseman- from Norman Gross, June 14, 1952." Not found in Shifreen & Jackson or Renken. *OCLC* locates no copies. Rare.

Second American Edition. Second American edition. Signed by Henry Miller on the front free endpaper, warmly inscribed to his friend and caregiver Bill Pickerill, dated March 7, 1977. Pickerill would be with Miller when he died a little more than three years later. [2], 244 pp. Publisher's black cloth with spine decorated in gilt. Near Fine with age-toning and offsetting to endpapers. In a Good+ edge-chipped dust jacket. An impressionist travelogue. Shifreen & Jackson A26g.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Uncommon first edition/first printing (ref. A26b of Shifreen & Jackson biblio) of what is generally considered Miller's best book; inscribed by the author (Miller) in ink on the front free end page and dated 12/4/41 in N.Y.C - just 3 days before Pearl Harbor and America's entry into WWII. The book recounts Miller's pre-war travel in Greece in 1939. Blue cloth hardcover boards with beige label on the spine with black lettering. Boards with heavy wear and age toning; edges frayed; pages with light age toning; binding generally sound and complete. Photos available upon request. Signed by Author(s).

Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Second American Edition. Second American edition. Signed by Henry Miller on the front free end paper. Publisher's black cloth with spine decorated in gilt. Near Fine with pages toned, bottom edge of boards lightly rubbed. In a Very Good dust jacket, edge-worn with several large chips, fading to the spine. An impressionist travelogue. Shifreen & Jackson A26g.

True first edition of the author's landmark travel book and frequently cited as one of his finest. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "To Tania and Jimmy, from their good friend, Henry Miller, N.Y., 12/3/41." The recipients were James and Tania Stern, close friends of the author. Very good in the rare original dust jacket, which is in very good condition with some rubbing and wear. Like the ancient colossus that stood over the harbor of Rhodes, Henry Millerâ s The Colossus of Maroussi stands as a seminal classic in travel literature. It has preceded the footsteps of prominent travel writers such as Pico Iyer and Rolf Potts. The book Miller would later cite as his favorite began with a young womanâ s seductive description of Greece. Miller headed out with his friend Lawrence Durrell to explore the Grecian countryside: a flock of sheep nearly tramples the two as they lie naked on a beach; the Greek poet Katsmbalis, the â colossusâ of Millerâ s book, stirs every rooster within earshot of the Acropolis with his own loud crowing; cold hard-boiled eggs are warmed in a villageâ s single stove, and they stay in hotels that â have seen better days, but which have an aroma of the past.â .

Softcover. Condizione: Good. 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 1934, they remained close for decades and he continued to send her copies of his books long after their divorce.

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 -- "TO TAMAR, THE FLAMING MEDEA OF BIG SUR WHO IMPROVISES 'UNITS' AND ISLANDS OF FOG AND SEA ANEMONES. HENRY MILLER. 4/2/44." The recipient is, perhaps, Robinson Jeffers who, though not a friend of Miller's, was a fellow inhabitant of Big Sur and whose most famous poem is titled "Tamar." Or more likely, though a bit disturbingly, it is perhaps inscribed to Tamar Nais Hodel, who was named for the poem and was the young daughter of Miller's friend and fellow inhabitant of Big Sur, Dr. George Hill Hodel -- a suspect in the infamous 1947 "Black Dahlia" murder and mutilation of Elizabeth Short. Tamar Hodel would have been around 9 years old at the time of the inscription, a tender young age to receive an inscribed book from a friend of ones father. But this was a father who allowed Man Ray to take nude pictures of her when she was 11 years old and whom she accused at 14 of sexual molesting her beginning when she was 11. (He was acquitted and fled the country soon after.) Name at base of front endpaper, cloth at spine ends and corners slightly frayed, general light cover wear, front hinge repaired where previously loose otherwise good to very good, lacking original dust jacket but with facsimile provided. MYSTERIOUS INSCRIPTION.