Published by Packard Press, [Berkeley, 1945
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
157 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth-backed printed boards. First edition, second issue. This copy is unnumbered. Binding very edgeworn; boards sunned.
Published by PictureBox Inc, 2004
ISBN 10: 0971367035 ISBN 13: 9780971367036
Seller: Village Works, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Due to the weight, size and/or rarity of this book, we will request an additional $4(domestic) to $24 (international) for shipping from you the buyer based on actual shipping costs, after your order is placed through this platform. This will not slow down your shipping time. Thank you for understanding.
Published by Packard Press, Berkeley, 1945
Seller: T. A. Borden Books, Olney, MD, U.S.A.
Illustrated by #1/750 copies unnumbered (illustrator). Near Fine+ (a touch of browning on endpaper); In very good dj (small chips & closed tears, light soil).
Published by Berkeley: Circle, 1945
Seller: Philip Smith, Bookseller, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st edition. Good+. 8vo, 94pp, printed wrappers. Sixth issue of this signal 1940s Berkeley little magazine (co-edited by Bern Porter). Includes the short play "Flannel Night Shirt" by Leonora Carrington and a short piece by Robert Barlow that includes a passing reference to H. P. Lovecraft. Unmarked copy with soil and creasing to covers. Not Signed.
Published by Circle Blue Print Co., Inc., Berkeley, 1945
Seller: sonalsorises, Los angeles, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Very Good Plus. Bern Porter Cover (illustrator). First Edition. First Edition. Original illustrated wrappers, very good plus. Cover illustration by Bern Porter. Contains "Preface for the Power within Us" by Henry Miller and "Five Poems" by e.e.cummings. Scarce.
Published by [Philadelphia: Walton Press, n.d. but 1972]., 1972
Seller: Skyline Books, Forest Knolls, CA, U.S.A.
Signed
Hardbound, issued without dust jacket. Reprint of this title originally published in 1945. Inscribed by Bern Porter. A collection of essays about Miller by Durrell, William Carlos Williams, et al. Fine.
Published by Berkeley: Circle, 1945
Seller: Philip Smith, Bookseller, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 8vo, 88pp, printed wrappers. Fifth issue of this essential 1940s Berkeley little magazine (co-edited by Bern Porter). Includes "Neptune, Evocateur Extraordinary" by modernist astrologer Dane Rudhyar (as "Dane Ruhdyar"). Unmarked copy, a little show-through to back cover from staple rust. Not Signed.
Published by New Republic, New York, 1945
Seller: Clayton Fine Books, Shepherdstown, WV, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Near fine in original wrappers with minor haloing to the edges. Ralph Ellison and Robert Motherwell also contribute to this issue.
Published by Packard Press, 1945
Seller: Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints, ABAA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Limited edition. ca 1945. Limited to 750 copies. Lge. 8vo (xiv), 157pp, ills in text. 1/4 cloth & hardboard, pic dj, vg+ condition.
Published by [Berkeley]: Bern Porter (1945)., 1945
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
First edition, numbered issue. 4to. 157 pp. Very good only in decorated boards with overall edgewear. Lacks dust jacket. Poet and publisher Douglas Blazek's copy, with his ownership signature and signed bookplate. Two additional inked ownership names to front free endpaper. One of 750 numbered copies. Shifreen & Jackson B29a.
Published by Bern Porter; Packard Press, 1945
Seller: Russell Books, Victoria, BC, Canada
Condition: Good. No Jacket.
Published by Berkeley, CA: Packard Press, 1945., 1945
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover first edition - Limited, first edition. A collection of essays, poems and reminiscences about Miller. Includes contributions by Henry Miller, Kenneth Patchen, Lawrence Durrell, poems by William Carlos Williams and Philip Lamantia, and others. Includes a long article by Knud Merrill on Miller and art and one by Michael Frankel on the genesis of "The Tropic of Cancer, and much more. Printed on multi-colored paper. Out of a total edition of 3000 copies, this #429 out of only 750 copies bound for distribution in 1945, and individually hand-numbered. Cover Illustration By Ferdnand Leger. Chronology and bibliography. Small quarto. 157 pp. Very good in original ivory paper covered boards over gray cloth spine with small illustrated panel on front cover. Some toning and light soiling to the boards, offsetting to the endpapers, binding sturdy, no dust jacket.
Published by Berkeley, CA: Circle (printed by The Greenwood Press), 1944
Seller: Philip Smith, Bookseller, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. Near VG. 8vo, 80pp (plus plates), printed wrappers. Early issue of this signal 1940s Berkeley little magazine (co-edited by Bern Porter), an elegantly designed early production of Jack Werner Stauffacher's Greenwood Press. For a brief span of years in the mid-forties this was one of the most important American outlets for Surrealist-influenced modernism. Miller's name is penciled on the first interior page (does not appear to be a signature). Otherwise-unmarked copy with toning at edges, and some tearing to spine. Not Signed.
Published by Berkeley: Circle, 1946
Seller: Philip Smith, Bookseller, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 8vo, 160pp (plus plates), printed wrappers. An important issue of this mid 1940s Berkeley little magazine. Includes the work of a wide range of artists of the period (such as Henry Miller, Robert Duncan, Anais Nin, Paul Radin, Darius Milhaud). Also includes a foldout Map of Joyce's Life by Bern Porter, and samples of experimental photographic work by Porter and George Barrows. Unmarked copy with some general wear. Not Signed.
Published by Bern Porter, Berkeley, 1945
Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Limited Edition. 1 of 750 numbered copies.
Published by Berkeley, CA: Circle (printed by The Greenwood Press), 1944
Seller: Philip Smith, Bookseller, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st edition. Good+. 8vo, 64pp (plus plates), printed wrappers. Scarce issue of this signal 1940s Berkeley little magazine (co-edited by Bern Porter), an elegantly designed early production of Jack Werner Stauffacher's Greenwood Press. For a brief span of years in the mid-forties this was one of the most important American outlets for Surrealist-influenced modernism. Unmarked copy with wear and tears to spine and a bit of toning and outer soil. Not Signed.
Publication Date: 1980
Seller: Triolet Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Four Henry Miller bibliographies, published between 1946 and 1980. Included are: Bern Porter. Henry Miller: A Chronology and Bibliography. Bern Porter, 1945. One of 500 numbered copies. Thomas H. Moore. Bibliography of Henry Miller. Henry Miller Literary Socity, 1961. One of 1000 numbered copies. Maxine Renken. A Bibliography of Henry Miller 1945-1961. Alan Swallow, 1962. The Swallow Pamphlets number 12. Michael Hargraves. Henry Miller Bibliography with Discography. Michael Hargraves, 1980. First edition, one of 225 numbered copies. Errata sheet stapled to inside rear cover. All are stapled pamphlets, the Bern Porter one with jacket, in generally very good to near fine condition. Sold as a lot.
Publication Date: 1943
Seller: MostlySignedBooks, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Limited Edition. Very good, no dust jacket as issued. SIGNED and inscribed by Henry Miller under the printed heading "The Work in Progress" on the first free endpaper "and more dope, dates, names, clues, etc as they come to me- by postcard, telegram, or carrier pigeon" . LIMITED edition pamphlet #142/500 privately printed in May, 1945. The paper cover is somewhat faded and worn, with a small scrape on the rear cover. Previous bookseller's information is penciled on the first free endpaper. The late Miller is the author of "Tropic of Cancer" and The Rosy Crucifixion trilogy. A rare item, signed or unsigned. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Associated Students of the University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, 1950
First Edition
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Spring 1950 issue of Cal Berkeley's literary magazine. Edited by Dale Joe. This issue featuring numerous writings on jazz by Brubeck, Kid Ory, Turk Murphy and others plus Patchen, Miller and more. A very good copy in stapled printed wrappers. Decidedly uncommon issue.
Published by Bern Porter, Berkeley, CA, 1944
Seller: Xochi's Bookstore & Gallery, Truth or consequences, NM, U.S.A.
Paper Back. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Miller, Henry (illustrator). 1st, Ltd. 61pp.; SC white w/blk.-pic.cover; rubbed&soiled w/lt.dampstain&ripple; clear plastic taped to covers; some sun; lt.residue,endpapers; lt.ripple throughout. "For these selected letters to Emil Schnellock, life-long friend of Henry Miller, 1150 copies have been set . " 9 illus.+photo.
Published by Tucson: The Outsider, 1969., 1969
Seller: Clayton Fine Books, Shepherdstown, WV, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. Light soiling to white boards, but still in the scarce, fragile dust jacket. Outside of the Patchen tribute, other contributors include Charles Bikowski, Denise Levertov, Robert Kelly, Lawrence Durrell, and many others.
Published by Bern Porter, Berkeley, CA, 1945
Seller: Xochi's Bookstore & Gallery, Truth or consequences, NM, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Slipcase Fine. Miller, Henry (cover) (illustrator). Limited, Numbered, Signed. 41pp.incl.postcard; HB white w/blk.&brwn.-pic.cover(a watercolor-hologaph poster by H.M. 1943); slight rub & bow w/sun on spine&edges; clean,tight pgs. -- "An Original Holograph by Henry Miller" postcard-- in slot,bk.pg. Slipcase (custom?) lt.gray w/label; fine. "Miscellanea has been assembled and published to aid biographers of Henry Miller, to foster greater interest among the collectors of his work and to raise funds for the publication of his many manuscripts." signed, Bern Porter . "500 copies of Henry Miller Miscellanea have been printed .June 1945, This is copy number 68". Signed By Editor.
Published by Tucson, AZ: Loujon Press, 1969
Seller: Philip Smith, Bookseller, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st edition. VG+ in Fair dw. 8vo, 212pp (plus plates), printed boards with printed dustwrapper. 1 of 500 stated copies of this double final issue in book format of this classic title, with a stellar roster of contributors. Includes floral insert by Gypsy Lou Webb. Unmarked copy, solid with a little light spotting; dustwrapper missing most of spine and an adjacent margin of the back cover; light spotting to insert slip. Not Signed.
Published by Bern Porter
Seller: Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Signed
Condition: Used - Very Good. 1945. Pictorial boards, no dj. Octavo. 41 pp. Number 435 of a limited printing of 500 copies. Signed by Porter. Includes a holograph letter by Miller.
Cartonnage éditeur. Condition: Très bon. Edition originale de cet hommage à Henry Miller, imprimée sur papier couché de différentes couleurs. En frontispice, portrait de Miller par Abraham Rattner et trois hors texte d'Hélion, Zadkine et Portner. Textes de Lawrence Durrell, Emil Schnellock, Wambly Bald, R.G. Osborn, Michael Fraenkel, Alfred Perlès, T.R. Gilbert, Paul Rosenfeld, Abraham Rattner, Knud Merild, Henry Miller, Gilbert Neiman, W.C. Williams, Philip Lamantia, George Leite, Wallace Fowlie, Bern Porter, Osbert Sitwell, H.F. West, Parker Tyler, James Laughlin, Roy Finch, Hugo Manning, Claude Houghton, Frederick Carter, Kenneth Patchen, Rudolph Gilbert, Paul Weiss, Reginald Moore, Nicholas Moore. Bio-bibliographie in fine. -- Tirage à 3 000 exemplaires dont 750 distribués en 1945 et 2 250 diffusés en 1947. Un de ces derniers, celui-ci portant un ENVOI autographe signé et daté de Miller à son éditeur français : « For Guy Tosi, who would undoubtedly compile a much better collection y testimonials from the Jallies spirits alone. Devotedly? 1/6/48 ».
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Rusty paper clip stains to a few leaves; otherwise fine. Includes one addresssed stamped envelope, dated August, 1977. Bern Porter was Henry Miller's first publisher in the United States.
Published by Circle, Berkeley, 1948
First Edition
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Ten issue complete set of magazines sold here together. (10 issues in 9 volumes) An early publishing venture featuring the San Francisco Renaissance group of poets and artists. Edited by George Leite with assistance by Bern Porter. Published out of Leite's bookstore and gallery space in Berkeley. The first two issues are tape-bound quartos - the remaining eight issues were printed in bound octavo paperbound format. All issues in good to very good condition with some cover and handling wear. Featuring writing by Kennth Rexroth, Henry Miller, Anais Nin, Weldon Kees, E. E. Cummings, Leonora Carrington, Robert Duncan, Mary Fabilli, Lawrence Durrell, Harold Norse, and many more. The first three issues of this magazine are all very scarce and complete sets are quite uncommon.