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Price: US$7.68 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: IN-8 broché, 192 pages. Sommaire : Francis Jammes: Paul Claudel, Pages 933-939 --- Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz: Lettre à Paul Claudel, Pages 940-947 --- Jean Schlumberger: Accès à Claudel, Pages 948-955 --- Louis Massignon: Sortes claudelianæ, Pages 956-958 --- Charles-Albert Cingria: Claudel didactique, Pages 959-964 --- Wladimir Weidlé: L'éclosion du drame, Pages 965-972 --- Charles Du Bos: Corona benignitatis anni Dei, Pages 973-991 --- Denis de Rougemont: L'art poétique ou Qu'il faut penser avec les mains, Pages 992-997 --- Paul Claudel: Commentaire sur le psaume 147, Pages 998-1014 --- Pierre Drieu la Rochelle: Rêveuse Bourgeoisie, Pages 1015-1046 --- Émilie Noulet: Marcel Jouhandeau et l'Algèbre des valeurs morales, Pages 1047-1056 --- Marcel Arland: Pitié pour les femmes, par Henry de Montherlant, Pages 1057-1061 --- Marcel Arland: Rencontres, par Marc Bernard, Pages 1061-1062 --- Marcel Arland: Le magasin de travestis, par Georges Reyer, Pages 1062-1063 --- Marcel Arland: Le Beau Navire, par Charles Mauban, Pages 1063-1064 --- Marcel Arland: Fraîcheur, par Jean Davray, Pages 1064-1065 --- Benjamin Crémieux: La neige de Galata, par Louis Francis (Gallimard), Pages 1066-1067 --- Marcel Arland: Proses d'enfants (Journal des Poètes), Pages 1067-1069 --- Maurice Sachs: Du roman policier, Pages 1069-1071 --- Benjamin Crémieux: Retour de l'U. R. S. S., par André Gide (Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française), Pages 1071-1077 --- Marie Delcourt: Franz Cumont, Pages 1077-1078 --- René Daumal: Le secret de la Grande Pyramide, par C. Barbarin (Adyar), Pages 1078-1080 --- Julien Lanoë: Intempéries, par Rosamond Lehmann (Plon), Pages 1080-1082 --- Jacques Decour: La carrière de Doris Hart, par Vicki Baum (Stock), Pages 1082-1082 --- Raymond Queneau: Tropic of Cancer, par Henry Miller (The Obelisk Press), Pages 1083-1084 --- Raymond Queneau: Black Spring, par Henry Miller (The Obelisk Press), Pages 1083-1084 --- André Lhote: Aquarelles à l'Orangerie, Pages 1085-1086 --- Michel Leiris: La Mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires même, par Marcel Duchamp (Éditions Vigier et Brunissen), Pages 1087-1089 --- Maurice Savin: Angelica, de Léo Ferrero, Pages 1089-1090 --- Roger Caillois: Les Hittites, par Louis Delaporte (La Renaissance du Livre), Pages 1091-1091 --- Roger Caillois: Les Étrusques et leur civilisation, par Bartoloméo Nogara (Payot), Pages 1091-1091 --- Armand Lunel: La Méditerranée, par Charles Parain (Gallimard), Pages 1092-1092 --- Denis Marion: La sagesse du père Brown, par G. K. Chesterton (N. R. F.), Pages 1092-1093 --- Jean Wahl: Billy Budd gabier de misaine, par Herman Melville (Attinger), Pages 1093-1093 --- Jean Wahl: Mistici del Duecento et del Trecento, par Arrigo Levasti (Razzoli), Pages 1093-1093 --- Jean Wahl: Vernunft und Existenz, par Karl Jaspers (Wolters Groningen), Pages 1093-1095 --- Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz: L'écrivain dans son pays, Pages 1095-1097 --- Anonymes: Yggdrasil, Pages 1097-1097 --- Jean Guérin: Les Cahiers du Plateau, Pages 1097-1098 --- Jean Wahl: Études carmélitaines, Pages 1098-1098 --- Julien Benda: Une lettre, Pages 1099-1099 --- Pio Baroja: D'un écrivain espagnol., Pages 1100-1101 --- Julien Benda: Plus clerc que juif, Pages 1102-1103 --- Julien Benda: Pensée et journalisme, Pages 1103-1103 --- Denis Marion: Au restaurant, Pages 1104-1105 --- Pierre Béarn: Propos du bouquiniste, Pages 1105-1107 --- Adrienne Monnier: Le Camelot, Pages 1107-1109 --- Tristan Derème: Les propos de M. Polyphème Durand : Alphabet de décembre, Pages 1109-1111 --- Jacques Delamain: Paix hivernale, Pages 1111-1113 --- Henri Pourrat: Rencontre, Pages 1113-1115
Seller: Librairie Lalibela, Ckelles, PARIS, France
Miller, Henry. Black Spring. No Publisher, No Place, 1936.
Price: US$83.37 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: SCARCE ILLEGAL PIRATED / BOOTLEG COPY. EARLY EDITION. Reddish wraps with title printed in black to front cover & spine. No publisher or place listed. Title page states: "Black Spring - by Henry Miller - Author of Tropic of Cancer". Copyright page states: "First published June 1936. Printed in France. Copyright in all countries. All rights reserved". Verso of page opposite title page states: "By the same author: Tropic of Cancer - first published 1934, reprinted 1935. In preparation: The World of Lawrence, Tropic of Capricorn". No price indicated on rear cover. Inside flap of cover notes (in part): "Henry Miller sprang into prominence with his first volume, Tropic of Cancer, generally considered to be one of the most outstanding books of recent years. Black Spring, Henry Miller's new volume, is in our opinion even better than Tropic of Cancer". The true first edition has a pictorial cover (not on this copy) & was published by Obelisk Press in Paris, though is the same pagination as this copy & both the first edition & this copy state "First published June 1936". Appears to be a pirated/bootleg copy, illegally printed in France on cheap paper, in plain printed wraps, lacking any publisher details. NOTE: A POOR copy only with MAJOR DEFECTS. Front cover almost detached (barely holding), rear cover & final signatures (pages 227-267) + blanks ALL DETACHED (but all present), both inner flaps detached (but present), covers & page edges heavily chipped, spine mostly lacking, brittle cheap paper, former owner's ink stamp to front cover, tape-remnant ghostings, otherwise a fair copy only. Part of the appeal is in the ruinous condition - the inherent character of the book lies in the fact that it took many years of well-worn use to get this way! 267pp. RARE PIRATED COPY.
Seller: Bookwood, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Henry Miller. Black Spring. Obelisk Press, 1936.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: All first edition points present. Text block a bit concave at the top, slit along the front gutter, small chip at the base of the spine, covers beginning to separate from the text block.
Seller: Dunaway Books, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
MILLER, HENRY. Black Spring. Obelisk Press, Paris, 1936.
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Half-title. 8vo, rebound in black leatherette, spine titles gilt; original pictorial front wrapper bound in. First edition. A fine association copy, ex-collection G. Legman with his signature on blank prelim, dated 1938. Legman arranged for Miller and Anais Nin, previous to their literary fame, to write privately commissioned erotic manuscripts for Roy M. Johnson, the Oklahoma oil tycoon and smut afficionado.
Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Henry Miller. Black Spring [1936 First Edition in custom case]. , 1936.
Price: US$513.40 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Obelisk Press Paperback first edition published in June 1936. Some reading wear and toning to pages, front cover detached from binding else good condition in archival protective sleeve. The book is housed in a custom made cloth covered slipcase in quarter leather with raised bands to spine.
Seller: Lacey Books Ltd, Cirencester, United Kingdom
Miller, Henry. Black Spring. Obelisk Press, Paris, 1936.
Price: US$700.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Extremely rare first printing limited to 1,000 copies (ref. A12a of Shifreen & Jackson bibliography) of Miller's second book. First printing points include date of June 1936 on the copyright page and price of 50 francs on front and rear panel. Semi-stiff beige and reddish-brown wrappers with drawing of a laborer chained to a steel wheel illustrated by M. J. Kahane. Spine of the paper wrapper is missing; wrapper with heavy wear to the edges; pages dusty with light age toning; interior clean - no writing inside or out. Overall fair-good copy. Photos available upon request.
Seller: Hudson River Book Shoppe, Waldwick, NJ, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry. Black Spring. Paris: The Obelisk Press, 1936.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo. 267 pp. Publisher's catalogue on rear fold-in. Semi-stiff beige and reddish-brown wrappers with drawing of man chained to wheel. One of an edition limited to 1,000 copies. Small ink-stains on fore-edge and on bottom edge. Shelf wear to lower spine end. Spine has darkened and shows a crease, but no separation. Browning to the paper. Two pages have one word underlined in ink.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry. BLACK SPRING - INSCRIBED TO HUNTINGTON CAIRNS. The Obelisk Press, Paris, 1936.
Price: US$5500.00 + shipping
Description: One of 1,000 copies. Octavo (19.25cm); illustrated wrappers with French flaps; 267,[5]pp. Inscribed by the author two months following publication on the first blank page: "To Huntington Cairns / with all best wishes - in rememberance of pleasant days in Paris. Henry Miller / 8/36." Light wear and toning to spine and extremities, along with some mild dust-soil to wrappers; clean internally; Very Good+. Housed in a custom clamshell case. Superb copy of Miller's second novel inscribed to Huntington Cairns, a young Baltimore lawyer who in September 1934 was appointed official U.S. Censor by the Secretary of the Treasury. It was Cairns who declared Miller's 1934 novel Tropic of Cancer (and subsequently, Black Spring, Tropic of Capricorn, and The Rosy Crucifixion) obscene based on the laws of the day, despite his admiration for Miller as an author and artist. His decision led to a 25-year correspondence and friendship between censor and author. In May 1936, Cairns received a letter from Miller, who had been corresponding with H.L. Mencken, to whom he had sent a copy of Tropic of Cancer that had eluded the U.S. Customs Bureau. Mencken told Miller of Cairns's "interest and bewilderment" in the book. Miller assured Cairns, "I appreciate your position and the attitude you have taken." He offered to send Cairns a copy of his second book, Black Spring, which Obelisk had recently issued. Cairns, no doubt concerned lest Miller try to mail another obscene book directly to him, the censor, wrote back to tell Miller that he would be in Paris in August and would pick up a copy of the book while there. The two men met, and during Cairns' visit he explained to Miller "the problem of Tropic of Cancer." After Cairns' departure, Miller sent him a copy of a favorable review of Cancer that had appeared in Eliot's periodical Criterion in England. Cairns wrote back that he had read Black Spring on the return voyage. "It filled me with admiration. I know of no other writer in English who is more naturally a novelist or who writes anything approaching your power" (Hoyle, Arthur. "My Friend the Censor": Henry Miller, Huntington Cairns, and Tropic of Cancer"). Shifreen & Jackson A12a; Miers & Armstrong 46.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.