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Miller, Henry. The Air-conditioned Nightmare. New Directions, New York, 1945.
Price: US$7.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Spine has slight wear to the ends and a light stain. Covers have some slight smudging. Early price written on upper corner of endpaper.
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry. The Air-Conditioned Nightmare (Volume One). New Directions, 1945.
Price: US$16.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Tan cl., soiled, botton corners rubbed, blue, dk. red lettering on backstr., bavkstr. discolored, bottom edge sl. rubbed. Map endpapers. Illus. with photos. 292pp., sl. toned.
Seller: Cragsmoor Books, Cragsmoor, NY, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry. Air Conditioned Nightmare. New Directions, New York, 1945.
Price: US$18.85 + shipping
Description: good to very good in torn dust jacket
Seller: Ken Saunders, Stirling, ON, Canada
Miller, Henry. The Air - Conditioned Nightmare. New Directions, 1945.
Price: US$28.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: shelf wear on the boards. ownership inscription. some foxing and markings. sound binding. fairly good copy. may require extra postage. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Price: US$34.81 + shipping
Description: 292 pages. - Blue-titled publisher's grey cloth with photographic publ. dustjacket by Hubert Creekmore and Larry Colwell (not priceclipped), and cartographic endpapers; 8vo.(ca. 21 x 15 x 2,5 cm). *** [Endgültig ausklingender FRÜHLINGS-VERKAUF / Ultimately fading SPRING-SALE: um über 30% REDUZIERTER PREIS bis Montag 06.05.2024, 24 Uhr (PRICE REDUCTION of over 30% until Monday, May 6th 2024); ursprünglicher Preis / originally EUR 46,50] --- FIRST EDITION, CLOTHBOUND ORIGINAL WITH DUSTJACKET. - Dust jacket slightly used; A VERY GOOD COPY.
Seller: C O - L I B R I , Bremen - Berlin ; Deutschland / Germany ., Berlin, Germany
MILLER, Henry. The Air Conditioned Nightmare. New Directions, New York, 1945.
Price: US$38.65 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardback. Condition Very Good - no inscriptions, pages clean only a few light spots on unworn covers. No dust wrapper. Author's name printed blue on spine; title in brown. Endpaper maps. Photos on glossy stock. 1st US edition, 1st issue of this early Miller title.
Seller: M&B Books, London, United Kingdom
Miller, Henry.. The Air-Conditioned Nightmare (Volume 1).. New York: New Directions., 1945.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo., 292 pp., Very Good, Beige Cloth, with staining, rubbing, sun-fading on covers; some staining on edges of text block; shelf wear; slight yellowing and stains around edges throughout. Photographs. First Edition.
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Henry Miller. The Air-Conditioned Nightmare (Volume One). New Directions, 1945.
Price: US$45.09 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Missing dust jacket. Light shelfwear & creases to edges of cover. Some small marks to cover. Foxing to edges of cover. Slight gap between spine & top of text block. Pages tanned. Content in good condition.
Seller: Hay-on-Wye Booksellers, Hay-on-Wye, HEREF, United Kingdom
Miller, Henry. The Air-Conditioned Nightmare. New Directions, 1945.
Price: US$49.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, second state. Previous owner bookplate and name in ink on front endpapers, Faint to light wear to tips of corners, light foxing to outside top edge of pages, thin line of white marks along top of back cover. otherwise a nice copy, clean and attrractive, with a solid binding and clean pages. Dust jacket has several small chips and wear to corners, bit of loss at top and bottom of spine, modest toning to back, modest overall rubbing. overall a worn but intact dust jacket now protected in an archival cover. Photos on request.
Seller: Recycle Bookstore, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
MILLER, Henry. THE AIR-CONDITIONED NIGHTMARE. New Directions, NY, 1945.
Price: US$54.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. 292. Illustrated with photographs. VG. A memoir about an auto trip across the U.S.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry. The Air Conditioned Nightmare. A New Directions Book 1945, 1945.
Price: US$66.19 + shipping
Description: Hardcover with dustjacket. Good. First edition. No notes/underlining. 292 pp
Seller: Libereso, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Henry Miller. The Air-Conditioned Nightmare (Volume 1). New Directions, US, 1945.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: No dust jacket, but a sound, square copy, with only previous owners names on front end papers. In all other respects a clean example. End paper maps. 292pp.
Seller: alsobooks, Cupertino, CA, U.S.A.
Henry Miller. The Air-Conditioned Nightmare - Volume One. New Directions, 1945.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE BOXES NEW BOXES Acceptable, hard cover book with no dust jacket, frayed spine, USA map on front & rear pastedown, sunned, 292 pages, 8vo.
Seller: Robinson Street Books, IOBA, Binghamton, NY, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry. THE AIR-CONDITIONED NIGHTMARE. New Directions Books, New York, 1945.
Price: US$74.75 + shipping
Description: Vol 1. Second printing. 292 pp. White endpapers with maps in brown. Grey cloth with blue titles. Top corners lightly bumped, head and tail of spine lightly worn, faint stains along bottom edges. Grey DJ with black titles and b/w photo. Small chips, light wear along the edges. VG/VG
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Miller, Henry. The Air-Conditioned Nightmare. New Directions, New York, 1945.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Text is clean save for some yellowing of the pages. Binding is tight. The photographs are printed and not typed in. Cover is in good condition save for slight corner bumping. There is an ink inscription from previous owner at the top of the inside front cover page. The dust jacket exhibits heavy corner bumping and color fading, but has since been placed in a protective cover to prevent further damage. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Lowry's Books, Three Rivers, MI, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry. The Air-Conditioned Nightmare. New Directions, 1945.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Inscribed by author on front flyleaf. Possibly later issue. Gray cloth with blue lettering on spine. Spine foxed. Some smudges, stains on cover cloth. Front flyleaf a little smudged.
Seller: Avol's Books LLC, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: HBDJ, 1945, 1st U.S. Edition, 2nd Issue State, VG/GOOD, AS-IS, DJ small chip Top edge front Not Affecting Illustration, Spine DJ small Endp chips Not Affecting Titles, Interior nice tight clean light wear Fox, Grey cloth boards with light wear Rub & slight edge Fade & Titled in Blue on Spine cvr, 292 pgs, 8vo. DJ protected in Clear Mylar , in Dustjacket of B/W Shack in front of Sky Scraper Building photograph by Hubert Creekmore, B/W photo of Miller on Back DJ by Larry Colwell, , He spent three years traveling around the country, and wrote this critique of America, which consists of essays and stories. Illustrated with photographs;
Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$88.39 + shipping
Description: Erstausgabe, OLWd. mit blau- und braungeprägtem Rückentitel, 292 Seiten mit Foto-Abb. auf Sondertafeln, 15 x 21,5 cm, Umschlag fehlt, von außen abgegriffen und Ränder etwas berieben, erste Seiten mit altem Wasserfleck, ganz selten Striche mit Bleistift, altersgemäß ausgeblichen, Bindung leicht gelöst, insgesamt aber noch guter Zustand. Book Language/s: English
Seller: Antikvariat Valentinska, Praha, Czech Republic
Miller, Henry.. The air-conditioned Nightmare.. New York New Directions, 1945.
Price: US$88.39 + shipping
Description: 292 pp. Original cloth with dust jacket. First Edition. One of 3000 copies. - Jacket edges with short chips and tears. Gewicht (Gramm): 476
Seller: Müller & Gräff e.K., Stuttgart, Germany
Miller, Henry. The Air-Conditioned Nightmare. New Directions, New York, 1945.
Price: US$99.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 292 pp. First issue, bound in smooth beige cloth, spine lettering in green and brown, map endpapers, tipped in photos on glossy paper. Covers worn, frayed at top and bottom of spine and in points at tips, dampstaining to large parts of cloth, dampstaining to small area at lower corner of page block [foredge and bottom edge] with a little dampstaining to interior plates in corresponding area at lower foredge. Inscribed on half title by Miller to Pierre [probably his collector and friend Pierre Sicart], "For Pierre - Henry Miller 6/6/74", with note below in another hand "From Barbara Chrisler Jan 1967 on day of her death" with Miller's note below, "why not on day of her life [underlinjed]? HM". . Chrisler's small ownership signature at top of front endpaper. Front hinge cracked through before title page, small edge dampstained areas on plates as noted above, contents otherwise very good +. No Dust Jacket.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry:. The Air-Conditioned Nightmare. (Volume One).. New York New Directions Book (), 1945.
Price: US$99.44 + shipping
Description: * Mit illustriertem Titel und 11 Bildtafeln. 292 Seiten. 21 x 14,5 cm. Grauer Original-Leinenband (Kapitale leicht berieben und mit schmalem Lichtrand) mit illustriertem Original-Umschlag (dieser mit teils hinterlegten Randeinrissen und kleinen Fehlstellen) nach Fotografien von Hubert Creekmore und Larry Colwell. *** Erste Ausgabe. - Der kritische Bericht einer Reise von New York in den Süden der USA mit dem Maler Abraham Rattner (1895-1978) entstand nach Millers kriegsbedingter Rückkehr aus Europa. 1947 erschien ein zweiter Teil unter dem Titel "Remember to Remember". - Die Vorsätze mit dem Reiseverlauf auf einer gezeichneten Karte. - Gutes Exemplar mit dem seltenen Umschlag.
Seller: Sächsisches Auktionshaus & Antiquariat, Leipzig, Germany
Miller, Henry. The Air Conditioned Nightmare. New Directions, New York, 1945.
Price: US$108.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing with tipped-in photographic illustrations. Later edition photographs are printed on same paper as text. Tan boards with blue and brown lettering to spine have light shelf wear at spine ends, textblock tight and square though well thumbed. There are some pencil check marks in a few places in the text. Front endpaper is a map of the U.S. Facsimilie jacket of first printing has photo illustration of two buildings on front panel and ads for four books on rear panel. In mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Timothy Norlen Bookseller, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Henry Miller. The Air-Conditioned Nightmare. New Directions Books, 1945.
Price: US$119.33 + shipping
Description: (XXN2) - USA - Primera edición - Con fotografías en blanco y negro - Contiene 292 páginas - Encuadernado en tela completa ploma de editorial, mantiene sobrecubierta original - Sobrecubierta con desgaste en borde y mancha - Buen estado
Seller: LIBROS EL CID CAMPEADOR, Santiago de Chile, Chile
Miller, Henry. The Air-Conditioned Nightmare. New Directions, New York, 1945.
Price: US$126.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Gray paper covered boards with blue lettering on spine. Endpapers clean with map of USA. Light wear at head of spine. Text block fresh and clean. Faint white blemish to front board at top near hinge but only 2/3" wide. No statement of printing on copyright page beyond 1945. Photo's are not coated so not first issue. Jacket has $3.50 price at bottom and photo of author on rear panel so not first issue. Shallow chip at head of spine and light wear at top edge near front fold. Tight and square, very attractive copy. In mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Timothy Norlen Bookseller, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Henry Miller. The Air-Conditioned Nightmare. New Directions, 1945.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Publisher: New Directions, New York, 1945. NEAR FINE hardcover book in NEAR FINE mylar-protected dust-jacket. DJ has wear at head of spine and at the tips. Not remainder marked. Not price-clipped ($3.50.). No prior owner names or markings. First US Edition, First Printing. Lovely copy.
Seller: Glands of Destiny First Edition Books, Sedro Woolley, WA, U.S.A.
Henry Miller. The Air-Conditioned Nightmare. New Directions, 1945.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first state. Covers mildly shelfworn. Dust jacket chipped.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry. The Air-Conditioned Nightmare. New Directions, 1945.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: DJ in archival cover, chips.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry. The Air Conditioned Nightmare. New Directions, 1945.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Christmas inscription from Miller to his Big Sur neighbors Harry dick and Shanagolden ( author Liliam Bos Ross). Signed Henry and Lepska and dated in the month of the book's publication (December 1945). Book has some darkening along the edges and some spotting on the rear cover. The clipped dust jacket has small chips and tears at the top and bottom of the spine and at the corners. Jackson A 50A. Nice association item!
Seller: Route 3 Books, Sandstone, MN, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry.. The Air-Conditioned Nightmare.. New Directions, New York, 1945.
Price: US$285.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Issue. A50a. A Fine copy in light tan linen cloth stamped in dark blue and maroon at spine, USA map endpapers, no blank leaves before and after text, photos in text printed on coated stock, in a Very Good or better first state dustwrapper (showing skyscraper behind shack, four titles adverts on rear panel, unclipped ("$3.50") on front flap. Tiny loss to spine ends, flap tips. Text and endpapers Q17773
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Henry Miller. [The Air-Conditioned Nightmare] [by: Henry Miller]. New Directions 1945, 1945.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Description: Signed First Ed. This is the 1945 First edition. Book is very good in just good dust jacket with some minor edge wear. Signed by Henry Miller on front end paper. Previous owner's name also on front end paper. This a nice clean copy, the spine is solid, The text is clean and pages are not torn or dirty. We provide fast and reliable shipping service. We started to sell on the internet in 1998. We ship from California. All our books are guaranteed.
Seller: Valley Books, Cupertino, CA, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry.. The Air-Conditioned Nightmare.. New Directions, New York, 1945.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. First issue. Fine in very good+ dust jacket. (292pp. ) (Clear tape mends to interior of jacket. Light shelf-wear to spine ends. ) ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 292 pages
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry.. The Air-Conditioned Nightmare.. New Directions, New York, 1945.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Mixed Issue. Shifreen & Jackson A50c, but with unrecorded variant plain endpapers (not the map of USA). Near Fine in plain light grey cloth, lacking the dustwrapper. Textblock measuring 8 3/8 inches. 292pp. with illustrations printed on text stock. This copy INSCRIBED by Miller "For [_____ _____] with sincere affection and gratitude for a most hospitable "sejour" chez les [_____] a Berkeley. Henry Miller 8/15/50" on the free front endpaper. Q17772
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.