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Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Lacks frontis. Covers are detached, separated from each other, and considerably chipped, but present. Spine is missing. Signatures are loose. Rear cover has some slight staining. Front cover has a few very small stains. Pages have slightly browned margins. ; Approx. 6 1/4" wide by 9 3/4". Signed by Miller on the limitations page. Copy #143 of 200. "This scenario is directly inspired by a phantasy called 'The House of Incest', by Anais Nin." ; 40 pages
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Lacks frontis. Spine has considerable wear, including missing the ends. The pages from the front blank through page 24 are detached, signatures loose, but present. Remaining pages are attached to the covers. The spine and spine edges are darkened, an attempt may have been made at regluing. Front cover has a stain to the upper outer corner. Covers have browned margins, pages have slightly browned margins. ; Approx. 6 1/4" wide by 9 3/4". Signed by Miller on the limitations page. Copy #144 of 200. "This scenario is directly inspired by a phantasy called 'The House of Incest', by Anais Nin." ; 40 pages
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Handbill. 5.25" x 7.5". Fine, with perforated order slip still present, and an ink correction of the price from francs to dollars.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry. Scenario (A Film with Sound) [*SIGNED* limited edition]. The Obelisk Press, 1937.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: (original card wrappers, gray printed in red, somewhat browned with age) [tears at spine ends, about one-quarter-inch strip paper loss beginning at about the middle of the front wrapper, extending across the spine and about one inch into the rear wrapper, a couple of small tears at top and bottom edges of rear wrapper, a few minor dampstains at edges; the frontispiece illustration is in Near Fine condition, and the internal leaves (all loose, as issued) are in Very Good or better condition, with the title page a bit browned]. "This the original edition, published in 1937, is limited to two hundred copies signed by the author and numbered 1 to 200," this being No. 55, SIGNED by the author on the limitation page (verso of title page). Miller's "treatment," as it were, for a film version (never made; probably never intended to be made) of Anais Nin's "The House of Incest." Contemporary gift inscription on inside front cover reads "I'll take the blame for sending this." Signed by Author
Seller: ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Wraps; 5 loose gatherings, pp. [40], [3], plus frontispiece. From a limited edition of 200 numbered copies, this one out of sequence and unnumbered, though inscribed by Miller in the year of publication, on the FFEP: "To Anne Poor from Henry Miller, Paris 8/15/37, p.s. Jetzt musste die Welt versinker! Et comment!" (Anne Poor, like Miller, was a painter.) Wraps heavily chipped and water-stained; frontispiece water-stained on the verso, though perfectly presentable.
Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry. Scenario (A Film with Sound). The Obelisk Press, Paris, 1937.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good limited edition in wraps, #119 of 200 copies. Signed by the author on the limited edition page. Original gray-brown card wrappers with red text and graphics on front panel. Upper and lower edges are creased; several closed vertical tears of 1/4" or less. Loss of 1/4" by 1/4" at head and tail of spine. Loose internal pages (as issued) are clean but a bit browned around the edges. Page facing page 9 has irregular ink smudge on lower corner. Several pages are uncut. Please use close-up options for best inspection and in support of condition description. Additional photos available at your request. International sales to all countries other than the UK will require use of an alternative shipping company which will result in higher shipping expense. A signature upon receipt may also be required.
Seller: R & G Bliss Books, Excelsior, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: One of 200 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.194. Octavo (26cm); publisher's unbound signatures laid into semi-soft gray wrappers, with titles stamped in red on front cover (price of 40 Frs. on front flap); folding frontispiece by Abraham Rattner, [8],9-[40],[4]pp. Contents are fresh and Fine; dustjacket shows a shallow triangular loss at lower left corner of front panel, with a 3.5" split at upper spine; Very Good+. Lacking the clear wax paper jacket noted in Shifreen & Jackson. "This scenario is directly inspired by a phantasy called "The House of Incest," written by Anais Nin" (from dedication page). The frontispiece, featuring a bizarre etching by Rattner, is often found lacking. Shifreen & Jackson A13; Pearson A-48.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2850.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Author's non-numbered presentation copy, boldly inscribed by Henry Miller to William Saroyan in the year of publication: "To / Bill Saroyan / the everlasting Armenian with the pneumatique gift! / Always yours, / Henry Miller / Paris / 8/12/37." A wonderful association between two literary giants of the twentieth century, and signed in the place and time that is most associated with the years of their best work. Near Fine with loose signatures and card wrapper as issued.
Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.