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Fantastic Adventures (Berkeley Livingston; John & Dorothy De Courcy; Chester S. Geier; Charles F. Myers; Richard Casey; Lee Francis). FANTASTIC ADVENTURES: November, Nov. 1947. Ziff Davis, NY, 1947.

Price: US$20.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Vol. 9, No. 7. Pulp magazine. Edited by Ray Palmer. Cover art by Robert Gibson Jones for "The Lamp of Vengeance" (short novel) by Berkeley Livingston; rear cover by James B. Settles for "Son of the Sun" by Alexander Blade (house pseud.). Includes "Come into My Garden" by John & Dorothy de Courcy; "Time Out of Mind" by Chester S. Geier; "Toffee Haunts a Ghost" (novelette) by Charles F. Myers; "The Miracle of Herbert Plunk" by Richard Casey; "Hell Is a Circle" by Lee Francis. Features: "The Editor's Notebook"; "Bone Cabin Quarry" by Leslie Phelps; "Sun Worship" by Kay Bennett; "The Druids" by Jon Barry; "Planting Nails" by June Lurie; "The Mystery of Anghor" by J. R. Marks; "Siamese Watchcats" by Sandy Miller; "Rings of Death" by Frances Yerxa; "Characteristics of the Moon" by H. R. Stanton; "Records of Early Eclipses" by Fran Ferris; "Hypnoanalysis" by Pete Bogg; "Death by a Bushmaster" by Carter T. Wainwright; "Reader's Page." Illustrations by Henry Sharp, Robert Fuqua, Rod Ruth, Enoch Sharp, & Virgil Finlay. Three pieces of old tape across spine; date on cover in pen; edges lightly trimmed; tanning.

Seller: Books from the Crypt, N. Potomac, MD, U.S.A.

Fantastic Adventures (Berkeley Livingston; John & Dorothy De Courcy; Chester S. Geier; Charles F. Myers; Richard Casey; Lee Francis). FANTASTIC ADVENTURES: November, Nov. 1947. Ziff Davis, NY, 1947.

Price: US$22.50 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Vol. 9, No. 7. Cover by Robert Gibson Jones for "The Lamp of Vengeance" (short novel) by Berkeley Livingston; rear cover by James B. Settles for "Son of the Sun" by Alexander Blade (house pseud.). Includes "Come into My Garden" by John & Dorothy de Courcy; "Time Out of Mind" by Chester S. Geier; "Toffee Haunts a Ghost" (novelette) by Charles F. Myers; "The Miracle of Herbert Plunk" by Richard Casey; "Hell Is a Circle" by Lee Francis. Features: "The Editor's Notebook"; "Bone Cabin Quarry" by Leslie Phelps; "Sun Worship" by Kay Bennett; "The Druids" by Jon Barry; "Planting Nails" by June Lurie; "The Mystery of Anghor" by J. R. Marks; "Siamese Watchcats" by Sandy Miller; "Rings of Death" by Frances Yerxa; "Characteristics of the Moon" by H. R. Stanton; "Records of Early Eclipses" by Fran Ferris; "Hypnoanalysis" by Pete Bogg; "Death by a Bushmaster" by Carter T. Wainwright; "Reader's Page." Illustrations by Henry Sharp, Robert Fuqua, Rod Ruth, Enoch Sharp, & Virgil Finlay. Fadining.

Seller: Books from the Crypt, N. Potomac, MD, U.S.A.

Fantastic Adventures (Berkeley Livingston; John & Dorothy De Courcy; Chester S. Geier; Charles F. Myers; Richard Casey; Lee Francis). FANTASTIC ADVENTURES: November, Nov. 1947. Ziff Davis, NY, 1947.

Price: US$25.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Vol. 9, No. 7. Pulp magazine. Edited by Ray Palmer. Cover art by Robert Gibson Jones for "The Lamp of Vengeance" (short novel) by Berkeley Livingston; rear cover by James B. Settles for "Son of the Sun" by Alexander Blade (house pseud.). Includes "Come into My Garden" by John & Dorothy de Courcy; "Time Out of Mind" by Chester S. Geier; "Toffee Haunts a Ghost" (novelette) by Charles F. Myers; "The Miracle of Herbert Plunk" by Richard Casey; "Hell Is a Circle" by Lee Francis. Features: "The Editor's Notebook"; "Bone Cabin Quarry" by Leslie Phelps; "Sun Worship" by Kay Bennett; "The Druids" by Jon Barry; "Planting Nails" by June Lurie; "The Mystery of Anghor" by J. R. Marks; "Siamese Watchcats" by Sandy Miller; "Rings of Death" by Frances Yerxa; "Characteristics of the Moon" by H. R. Stanton; "Records of Early Eclipses" by Fran Ferris; "Hypnoanalysis" by Pete Bogg; "Death by a Bushmaster" by Carter T. Wainwright; "Reader's Page." Illustrations by Henry Sharp, Robert Fuqua, Rod Ruth, Enoch Sharp, & Virgil Finlay.

Seller: Books from the Crypt, N. Potomac, MD, U.S.A.

Bell (Isaac).. A HUNTSMAN'S LOG BOOK. By Isaac Bell.. Eyre & Spottiswoode. London. 1947., 1947.

Price: US$25.99 + shipping

Description: (Hardcover, 1947). 1947 1st edition. 8vo (142 x 221mm). Ppviii,249. B/w photographs and plates. Red cloth, spine titled in gilt. Signature to front end-paper. Cloth faded, with stain to rear. Some foxing and use else good. Lacks dust-wrapper. "Isaac Bell is one of the best-known personalities in the hunting world, and in his knowledge of fox-hound breeding has every claim to rank with the late Lord Lonsdale and the late Lord Bathurst. In experience in hunting hounds in the field he has like claims to high place amongst amateur huntsmen, and, indeed, it might be added, the professionals, for he has been a master, carrying the horn of three famous packs - the Galway Blazers, the Kilkenny, and the South and West Wilts - and, as an undergraduate, whipped into the Cambridge Drag." Includes chapters on: Well Vale; Southwold; The Warwickshire; The Brocklesby/Earl of Yarborough's; Lord Henry Bentinck; The Pytchley; The Grafton; The Bicester; The Milton; Melton-Mowbray; Quorn; Cottesmore; J. Otho Paget; Lady Milbanke; 'Buck' Barclay; The Belvoir; The Berkeley; Hounds with a Welsh cross; Badminton; T. Butt Miller; 'The Dun' and the 'Golden Pack'; Harry Bonner; Tom Smith; Charles Littleworth; Lord Middleton's Foxhounds/Birdsall; The Devon and Somerset Staghounds, in 1925; Brooks; Rivers; The Meath; Galway; John Denis; Marble Hill; 'Fox et praeterea nihil'; A killing scent; Carlow Kilkenny; Kerry; The Widgers; Tipperary; W.P. Hanley and Land League Days; The 'oss loves the 'ound and I loves them both; Irish hunters; Hound shows; Standardisation; Style of hunting; The F.K.S.B. ; Puppy shows; Fallacies and wrinkles; The handling of hounds in a cast; The 'Tally'; 1:2:1; Learning a kennel; Diplomacy; Mr. Chase and Mr. Bell; A list of hounds. .

Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom

Willeford, Charles (et al.). THE OUTCAST POETS. Oscar Baradinsky Alicat Bookshop Press, Yonkers, NY, 1947.

Price: US$30.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: book consists of loose leaves in a brown, red and black envelope. Distinct from the work of the other poets, which are loose sheets, Willeford's five poems appear on four "pages" of a four-fold sheet of blue paper. All the sheets, including the introductory biographical sketch sheet for the poets, are in fine condition, if a trifle age-tanned. Edgewear and tears to original envelope, with top flap detached but present. Charles Willeford's first appearance in print. Number 8 of the Outcast series of poetry chapbooks published by Oscar Baradinsky at the Alicat Bookshop Press in Yonkers, NY. Borodinsky published or republished, in limited edition, works by other Avant Garde writers "of today and yesterday" such as Henry Miller, Michael Fraenkel, Anais Nin, Percy Bysshe Shelley, etc. Other poets in this issue include P.K. Thomajan, Mirian Allan deFord; Robert Anthony; and F.H. Kaler. Just a few years after this publication, Willeford left the world of poetry and went on to write his hardboiled, exquisitely cadenced, notoriously unsentimental Hoke Mosely crime novels, three of which have been made into films.

Seller: The Sensible Magpie, Creswell, OR, U.S.A.

MILLER, Henry.. Into the Night Life (Promotional Booklet).. Berkeley: Privately published, n.d. [1947]., 1947.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Description: 4to. Pamphlet, issued in dust jacket. First edition. A handsome booklet designed by Bezalel Schatz printing his essay "The Story of the Making of the Book" along with quotes and texts about the book by Man Ray, Will Rogers, and others. Reproduces samples of the art work and design. Not in Shifreen & Jackson. Included is the original hand-addressed mailing envelope from Miller to a bookseller. Near fine.

Seller: Skyline Books, Forest Knolls, CA, U.S.A.

Miller, Henry and Bezalel Schatz.. Into the Night Life: With Henry Miller and Bezalel Schatz (prospectus).. Berkeley, Calif.: Daliel's., 1947.

Price: US$135.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Prospectus for the book of the same name. 1 two-sided printed sheet measuring 12 x 9 inches when unfolded; item is folded into a 3-page pamphlet in which Messrs. Miller and Schatz describe the book in detail. Item in beautifully printed in green and black on a sand-colored background. Item is in near fine condition, with some water staining running along the top of the page in a 1/2-inch band, and comes in the envelope in which it was mailed; addressee is Mrs. Doris Johnson; in the envelope are various other general book advertisements printed by Daliel's. Envelope is in very good condition with the aforementioned water stain; the other three various book advertisements are in fine condition. Scan available upon request. NOTE: This is not a book; it is a one-page advertisement for a book.

Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.

MILLER, Henry. Into the Night Life. (Promotional pamphlet). Big Sur undated circa 1947, 1947.

Price: US$259.91 + shipping

Description: First edition. A well designed promotional pamphlet that Miller sent to booksellers and other literary types to promote his 1947 work, "Into the Night Life." Signed by Miller himself, on 18th July 1955. Words by both Miller and the book’s Palestinian illustrator, Bezalel Shatz. Comments from, among others: Beniamino Bufano, Man Ray, Will Rogers, Herbert Read and Anais Nin. Plain covers. Some fading. Internally clean and tidy. Book has obviously been creased at some point but is all in a very good condition. "Into the Night Life" took almost two years to produce. Only 800 copies were produced, and each one was signed and numbered. This pamphlet was designed to promote the book, by giving insight in to how it was made, what it is about, together with a few testimonials from individuals deemed qualified to appraise its merits. 280 x 220 mm (11 x 8¾ inches).

Seller: Harrison-Hiett Rare Books, Richelieu, France

Hazlitt, Henry; et al. Newsweek - The Magazine of News Significance, April 14, 1947: Cover Photo of Baseball Umpire Cal Hubbard / Passing of Henry Ford. Weekly Publications, Inc., USA, 1947.

Price: US$295.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: 108 pages. Features: Nice color Nash car ad inside front cover; Very nice color ad for Ford Trucks features Mr. Brice Woody, Manager of the Gillespie Ranch of Tishomingo, Oklahoma; National Dairy Products Corp. ad features young boy posing like The Massive Massimo, whose illustration appears on the wall behind him; Texaco ad for their Havoline motor oil features colour illustration of bowler; Photo of 6'-9" basketball player Harry Boykoff; Nice color ad for red Dodge convertible; Interesting stylized color art ad for the state of Idaho/Container Corp. of America; Boeing ad features photo of their B-50 and C-97; Joseph Curran states the case against Communism in the National Maritime Union (NMU); Photo of the Zarief quadruplets of Brooklyn, NY with their mother; Obituary of Henry Ford; After the Lilienthal Debate; Good Year color ad features the massive XB-36 bomber and is massive tires; Lejon Brandy color ad; Japan - signals of economic storm - with horrible photo of homeless mother and child asleep; Photo of Marines departing China by train - with air escort to guard railway; Korea - America's most immediately serious problem in the Far East; Egypt - good-bye to the British; Belgium - paradox in peace; Message from Stalin to Bevin; Nice color Lucky Strike ad features farmer holding tobacco leaf; Nice color-photo portrait of Golfer Craig Wood in Lord Calvert Whiskey ad; Photo of British Royal family standing beside 7'-3" Cornelius Mostert of the Transvaal; General de Gaulle is divided into two parts; CCF (NDP and Premier Thomas (Tommy) Douglas race to success in Saskatchewan (with photo); Photo of bomb damage in Havana; Brief obituaries of Franz Seldte, The Marquess of Salisbury and Bessie Beatty; Nice two-color one-page ad for International Harvester crawlers in oil field; Rare and fantastic one-page photo ad for The Four Wheel Drive Auto Company (FWD) featuring a FWD towing trailer with power shovel up seven percent grade; Photo of Mount Hekla volcano in Iceland; Dr. Otto Robert Frisch; America Fore Insurance ad features six graphic photos of damage against which they protect; Captain Bill Beecher of the County Fair radio program; Nice color Borden's ad features Elsie the Cow; Lawsuit over Superman - Joe Shuster, Jerry Siegel and Harry Donenfeld/Detective Comics, Inc.; Baltimore cartoonist Quincy (Moco) Yardley, whose little beret-topped kibitzer brings a breakfast-table laugh to newspaper readers; Coal and the emergence of John L. Lewis; Leon Mandel of Mandel Bros. Department store offers workers a library and many other nice amenities; Our Fiscal Irresponsibility - article by economist Henry Hazlitt; Photos of major league baseball managers and their comments on their teams; The Color Question in Baseball - Satchel Paige and Josh Gibsons; Promotional one-page ad for Greater New Orleans; Nice color one-page ad for New York Central; Nice color-photo ad for McCall's Magazine; Knott Hotels ad features Sandusky, Ohio; Nice color Kinsey Gin ad features three Martini recipes; Impressive color-photo ad for Norfolk and Western Railway shows huge flaming rail wheel being fiited via heat expansion; Seagram's Gin color ad features photos of original early American flasks from the collection of George S. McKearin; Outlaw American Communism; and more. Above-average wear and soiling. Spine tapled. A worthy vintage copy.

Seller: RareNonFiction, IOBA, Ladysmith, BC, Canada

Henry Miller. Into the night life with Henry Miller and Bezalel Schatz. H. Miller, B. Schatz, 1947.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Signed. 3rd binding. A superb copy of a superb production, blue and teal cloth boards in blue slipcase. This is #362 of a stated (but actually far less) run of 800, SIGNED BY MILLER AND SCHATZ. Green Apple Books and Music, Publisher Weekly's Bookstore of the Year 2014, has been San Francisco's favorite independent bookseller since 1967! Shipping costs on oversize / international orders will reflect actual shipping charges and may be more than quoted by ABE. We will need to contact you with true shipping costs and ask for authorization before adjusting cost.

Seller: Green Apple Books and Music, san francisco, CA, U.S.A.

Miller, Henry. (Contributor) Schatz, Bezalel. (Frontispiece). PORTFOLIO V.. BLACK SUN PRESS., WASHINGTON DC, 1947.

Price: US$1000.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: SIGNED Limited Edition. One of 200 copies. The only limited edition produced for this avante garde literary anthology. There are 2 broadside leaves representing Henry Miller's "Into The Night Life" on which an original full-color lithograph by Schatz is presented SIGNED by Miller & Schatz, protected by a tissue overlay. Features separate broadsides by Anais Nin, Albert Cossery, Charles Olson, Max Ernst, Man Ray & several others. Fine in a Very good+ folding card sleeve which is somewhat age toned & lightly shelfworn. The front cover has the original silver paper strip covering the "Spring 1947" wording below the title. We have never encountered a copy of this signed limited issue before.; Signed by Author(s)

Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.

Henry Miller; Bezalel Schatz. Into the Night Life. Henry Miller and Bezalel Schatz, 1947.

Price: US$1250.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: tall case. Signed by both Henry Miller and Bezalel Schatz. Miller hand marking it as #36 of the less than 200 copies originally bound in 1947, all of which (like this copy)had lettering on the spine and an included slipcase. Prospectus has been included with this copy. Because of the underwhelming demand for the book, Miller and Schatz never finished binding them in 1947. This is one of the scarce original finished editions from that time. Spine slightly rubbed, with a part of "Into" missing. Scuffing on top left corner of the front cover. Gift inscription on the first blank page. In mildly worn slipcase.

Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Miller, Henry; Schatz, Bezalel.. Into the Night Life. (Copy #291, signed). Henry Miller & Bezalel Schatz, Berkeley, CA, 1947.

Price: US$1500.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: This is a fine hardcover copy, bound in blue illustrated cloth. In a fine green cloth slipcase. Copy #219 signed by Miller & Schatz. This copy was bound by Schatz and recovered from his studio after his death. A few unobtrusive worm holes from the long storage at Henry Miller's house. A lovely copy. Great silk screen images. Photos on request.

Seller: Reader's Corner, Inc., Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.

Henry Miller. Into the Night Life. Henry Miller and Bezalel Schatz, Big Sur, 1947.

Price: US$1500.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Big Sur: Henry Miller and Bezalel Schatz, 1947. Schatz, Bezalel. A visual riot of a book, printed totally in serigraph in bright colors. The text is derived from Henry Miller's Black Spring , and is presented in Miller's hand. The pages of text are interleaved with vividly colored images by Bezalal Schatz which also creep into some of the pages of text. These images range from small accent pieces to roaring two page spreads. One of 800 copies, although there is some doubt about how many copies have survived the rodents in Miller's basement. Signed by author and artist, cloth bound with serigraph printed on the binding and the vaunted bit of red felt is glued to the front. Book is in fine condition.The slipcase, while sound and visually presentable, may well have been a survivor of the attentions of Miller's gang of mice--there are a few minor stains and a couple of small rubbed spots. The spine of the case bears a small clear tape with the number (313) of this copy. Cloth bound with slipcase covered in the same material

Seller: Four Rivers Books, LLC, Boulder, CO, U.S.A.

MILLER, Henry.. Of - By - and About Henry Miller.. Yonkers NY Alicat Bookshop Press, 1947.

Price: US$1512.50 + shipping

Description: First edition, sole printing, inscribed by the author; 4to; single quire, wire stitched into yellow wrappers printed in black and red, overlapping edges a little creased, but a near-fine copy. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the first leaf, 'For Hans Reitzel Henry Miller 6/16/57'. The recipient was the Danish publisher by whom Miller was published from 1956 (Sexus). Reitzel would soon campaign on Miller's behalf when the Norwegian government banned publication of his works after that country's version of Sexus came out in 1957. Almost precisely at the time of Miller inscribed this copy. Laid in is the 4pp typescript (1 page is holograph of Amile Kerne's essay on Miller entitled, La lecture heureuse. 1000 copies printed.

Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom

Miller / Schatz Henry / Bezalel. Into the Night Life. Miller / Schatz (Big Sur) 1947, 1947.

Price: US$1624.43 + shipping

Description: Near Fine in blue cloth with Silk Screened Decoration and piece of red fabric (as called for). Number 180 of 200 copies bound originally signed by Miller and Schatz. Illustrtaed throughout by Schatz accompanying text from Miller's Black Spring. 1st edition. ISBN B0007HQNPW

Seller: Peter J. Hadley Bookseller ABA ILAB, Ludlow, United Kingdom

Miller, Henry; Bezalel Schatz.. Into the night life. [with extra material]. Henry Miller and Bezalel Schatz, Berkeley, 1947.

Price: US$2000.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 37 cm; [40] leaves (including two leaves printed on glassine), silkscreened in color throughout. Text written in author's hand and color silkscreened. Bound in blue cloth with Bezalel's screened shapes and a piece of red fabric, by Eda Kairn. LACKS slip case. SIGNED by Miller and Schatz on justification page. Slight wear at extremities. Unblemished text. References: Shifreen & Jackson A60a; Hargraves, #30. ADDITIONALLY: a silkscreened bifolium, 315 x 385 mm, heavy white paper, reproducing two pages of the book with text and illustration, signed by Miller and Bezalel; edges a little pinched; AND a three-panel glassine sheet, frayed, printed on one panel with the full text of the title page, which reads: "The one and only life is the night life, the life of the mind, the night of night, the life, the mind, the night, the night life. The is the Coney Island of the mind, the Toboggan Slide, the Into the Into. The is the without which wherefore and however of the night's bright mind, the life and mind of night, the mind and night of night, or, Into the Night Life, with Henry Miller and Bezalel Schatz." The tortured publication history of this title begins with the sixteen months that Miller and Bezalel took to produce the sheets (with the help of printer Alfred Stoddard) in an edition of 800 copies. A prospectus apparently failed to generate subscribers so, according to Schifreen and Jackson, fewer than 200 copies were bound (Hargrave estimates even fewer). The sheets were then stored in a closet, suffering damage from vermin and deterioration from mold. Salvageable sheets were reissued in 1971 (some of them in a modified binding, and some of the wormy sheets were then acquired by Coast Gallery in 1976 and bound for sale. Our copy, #168, is surely from the original 1947 issue (with the red fabric patch on the upper board). In the opening text, Miller calls the book "a Coney Island of the mind." (Ferlinghetti's book of the same name appeared eleven years later.)

Seller: Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio, ABAA, Tuxedo, NY, U.S.A.

Miller, Henry, & Bezalel Schatz. Into the night life. Henry Miller and Bezalel Schatz, [Berkeley, 1947.

Price: US$2500.00 + shipping

Description: Edition limited to 800 copies, this copy no. 74 signed by Miller and Schatz (but Shifreen & Jackson suggest that the first issue was in fact less than 200 -- see below); 4to, pp. [86]; illustrated throughout in color and the text reproducing Miller's original manuscript; original blue silk-screened cloth lightly rubbed at spine ends, lettered in black on spine, and with a red felt patch glued to front board, as issued; publisher's matching blue cloth slipcase (with a few dings and rub marks); a very good copy, or better. "This book is entirely a serigraph or silk screen production . Sixteen months were required to bring it forth. With the exception of the text, which is originally from Henry Miller's Black Spring . this book is the creation of Bezalel Schatz, a Palestinian artist." Shifreen & Jackson, A60a: "The copyright page notes that this edition was limited to 800 copies, however, this is in error. 800 sets of the sheets were printed in 1947 along with the silk screen blue cloth used for the binding. Somewhat less than 200 copies were bound, enclosed in slipcases and put on sale in April 1947, and with the remaining sheets stored in Miller's closet. In 1971 and 1977, additional binding of the first edition sheets would occur (see Shifreen & Jackson A60b and A60c). Numbered copies, with all of the First Edition points are known to exist at least through copy no. 164 . Approximately 400 of the original 600 sets stored in Miller's closet were destroyed by 'worms' [also described by Miller as 'rats and fungus']."

Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.