Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Miller, Henry. THE COSMOLOGICAL EYE. New Directions, New York, 1939.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Description: 371pp. From the library of Patrick J. Kearney, with his small name sticker at the bottom of the verso of the front cover. Trade paperback. Light shelfwear, spine slightly creased. Very Good
Seller: Alta-Glamour Inc., Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry. The Cosmological Eye. New Directions, Norfolk, CN, 1939.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Minor wear, age toning to the edges and endpapers, previous owner's name and stamp on the front endpaper. Dust jacket missing the lower spine and large chunks from the upper edges and spine, scattered foxing.
Seller: Else Fine Booksellers, Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry. COSMOLOGICAL EYE. New Directions (1939), Norfolk, CT, 1939.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Description: Norfolk, CT: New Directions. G/No Dustjacket. (1939). . Cloth. 8vo., 363 pp., cover toned, pages toned, writing on ffe, .
Seller: Riverow Bookshop, Owego, NY, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry. The Cosmological Eye. New Directions, 1939.
Price: US$16.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Brown HB.
Seller: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry. The Cosmological Eye. New Directions, New York USA, 1939.
Price: US$16.40 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 371 pages. The cover has light wear. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Size: Size D: 7"-8" Tall (177-203mm)
Seller: Goulds Book Arcade, Sydney, Newtown, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Henry Miller. The Cosmological Eye. New Directions, 1939.
Price: US$17.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1st, Good/Poor condition, dust jacket is in 3 pieces and laid-in, most of it's there and so is the price, text tight and the age toning is quite light, there are markings in the text but not many and most of them are PENCIL marks in the margin, there are also a couple notes inside back board likewise in PENCIL, there are 3 markings in the table of Contents in ink, former owner's name "Bill Withers" written on first page in ink, some soiling on boards, lettering on spine NOT faded.
Seller: Taos Books, Santa Fe, NM, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry. The Cosmological Eye. New Directions, 1939.
Price: US$18.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Original blue-green cloth stamped in black (front inner hinge starting; heavy staining; wear).
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry. The Cosmological Eye. New Directions, 1939.
Price: US$18.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Original blue-green cloth stamped in black (some spotting and wear to cloth; some spotting to lower edge of text).
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry. The Cosmological Eye. NEW DIRECTIONS, NORFOLK, CONN, 1939.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: General shelf wear, tanning fep's, and few pages bent. DATE PUBLISHED: 1939 EDITION: 363
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Henry Miller. The Cosmological Eye. New Directions, 1939.
Price: US$21.71 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Foxing, minor wear to cover/. 363 pages.
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
Miller, Henry. The Cosmological Eye. New Directions 1939, 1939.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: hardback near very good condition in brown cloth
Seller: Wonderland Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry:. The Cosmological Eye.. Norfolk / New Directions,, 1939.
Price: US$26.45 + shipping
Description: 371 pp Slight shelfwear, corners slightly crumpled. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550
Seller: Antiquariat Willi Braunert, München, Germany
Miller, Henry. The Cosmological Eye. New Directions ;, 1939.
Price: US$28.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Early prinnting,1939, w/o later prtg stated, but no eye paste down on brown cloth front cover ; 8.3 X 5.5 X 1.3 inches; 363 pages
Seller: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Henry Miller. The Cosmological Eye. New Directions, Norfolk, CT, 1939.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: Pale olive linen over boards. Apparent second issue of first printing lacking paper eye insert on front board. Jacket has corner and edge chipping with a 1/2' piece missing at top of spine. Not price clipped, $3.00 showing. Prev. owner bookplate on front free endpaper. Some age toning.
Seller: The Book Merchant, LLC, Stillwater, OK, U.S.A.
MILLER Henry. The Cosmological Eye.. New Directions, Norfolk CT, [1939], 1939.
Price: US$30.80 + shipping
Description: 8vo., First Edition, endpapers mildly browned; brown cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy.
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Miller, Henry. THE COSMOLOGICAL EYE. New Directions, Norfolk, 1939.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second issue with plain brown cloth - I added the eye on the front. Recollections and various pieces by Miller. A sturdy, square, moderately soiled copy in beige cloth. A book looking for a jacket!
Seller: MARIE BOTTINI, BOOKSELLER, Cotati, CA, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry. The Cosmological Eye. New Directions, Norfolk, 1939.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Shorter prose writings collection taken from Paris books "Black Spring" (1935) and "Max and the White Phagocytes" (1938). Front cover corner gently bumped. Minor wear to spine. Ships same or next business day. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 371 pages
Seller: Good Books In The Woods, Spring, TX, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry (1891-1980). The Cosmological Eye. Norfolk, Conn. : New Directions, 1939.
Price: US$38.57 + shipping
Description: Near fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 363 pages; Description: 363 p. ; 22 cm. Subjects: Miller, Henry (1891-1980) --Fiction. Notes: Short stories, sketches, essays, and an autobiographical note. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Henry Miller. The Cosmological Eye. New Directions, Norfolk, 1939.
Price: US$43.63 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first softcover edition of this notable short story collection by Henry Miller. First edition thus, the uncommon softcover edition of this popular collection of short stories by Henry Miller, containing some of his most important shorter prose. Drawn from theBlack Spring Paris books of 1936 andMax and the White Phagocytes of 1938, both published in Paris by The Obelisk Press.Henry Miller was an American novelist known for developing a new style of semi-autobiographical novel blending character study, stream of consciousness, mysticism, philosophical thought. Most popular works includeTropic of Cancer, Black Spring, Tropic of CapricornandThe Rosy Crucifixiontrilogy. In the original publisher's illustrated wraps. Externally sound with minor shelf wear, lightly soiled with a minor staining mark to front wrap, creased to spine as usual. Internally, firmly bound. Staining mark to fore edge, affecting only pp. 152 and 153 to the external margins. Pages are otherwise bright and clean throughout. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Miller, Henry. The Cosmological Eye. New Directions, 1939.
Price: US$44.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition. This book has rubbing and surface scratching to both covers, a slightly shifted spine, mild fading to the spine, toning and light staining to the interior of the covers, light shelfwear to the edges and corners of the covers and textblock, and an overall gentle aging to the pages, otherwise this book is in good condition with unmarked pages, a tight binding, and a strong, clean cover.
Seller: Recycle Bookstore, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry. The Cosmological Eye. New Directions; Norfolk, Ct; 1939/nd, 1939.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: ; 363 pp.; DJ; VG/VG-; The second edition. The covers show some foxing, the jacket is edge chipped. . 2nd.ed Shifreen=A23.b. [kwA_ 1st Ed. ]
Seller: Watermark West Rare Books, Wichita, KS, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry. THE COSMOLOGICAL EYE. New Directions, Norfolk, Connecticut, 1939.
Price: US$45.90 + shipping
Description: Good in boards. Owner name to FEP. End pages darkened. Spine is cocked. A few stains to boards. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
MILLER, Henry. The Cosmological Eye. New Directions, Norfolk, Conn, 1939.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Fourth edition (published in 1946). Publisher's amber brown cloth, gilt spine. Modest toning to the endpapers, near fine in near very good dustwrapper with a few scattered small chips and light creases to the edges and spine ends of the jacket. *Shifreen & Jackson* A23d.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Dust Jacket. Very Good. Some wear, particularly along folds and at corners of front flap. Half-inch tear near head of spine. Price unclipped. (Dust Jacket only. Book not included).
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry (1891-1980). The Cosmological Eye. Norfolk, Conn. : New Directions, 1939.
Price: US$52.00 + shipping
Description: Near fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 363 pages; Description: 363 p. ; 22 cm. Subjects: Miller, Henry (1891-1980) --Fiction. Notes: Short stories, sketches, essays, and an autobiographical note. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Henry Miller. The Cosmological Eye. New Directions, 1939.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second issue, without the eye on the front board. Binding tight and square, modest shelf wear, p.o. signature on the front pastedown. Lacking the dustjacket.
Seller: Dunaway Books, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry. The Cosmological Eye - signiert - signed. New Directions Books, Norfolk, 1939.
Price: US$71.63 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: auf Vortitel mit Widmung und Datum (1978) signiert von dem amerikanischen Schriftsteller Henry Miller (1891-1980), Gebrauchsspuren,Unterschrift leicht verwässert, Papier altersgebräunt,wasserrandig. Signed by author Size: 8°
Seller: Antiquariat Luna, Lüneburg, Germany
Henry Miller; James Laughlin [Intro.]. The Cosmological Eye. New Directions, Norfolk, 1939.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Norfolk: New Directions, 1939. First Edition. Octavo; 363pp. Coarse oatmeal cloth with sepia photo montage of surreal eye in clouds on front board; brown rules and lettering on spine. Binding soiled overall; chewed at upper edges and slightly on spine. Glue browning on endpapers front and back. Textblock tanned throughout, but clean and unmarked. Lower corner of p. 5 torn off, about 1/2". Miller's first publication in the U.S. is a collection of short pieces. Laughlin's opening "Word from the Publisher" justifies the publication despite the scandal of Miller's earlier banned novels: "Welcome, Henry MIller, to your native land . . . You help us to believe that we have not been doomed to live in an age of pygmies." [Harrison, Newth, and Candido p. 3].
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Henry Miller. The Cosmological Eye. New Directions, 1939.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New Directions, Norfolk, Conn., 1939. First edition with second state DJ (price of $3 on front flap). In VG condition with light soiling to boards and toning to endpapers and text block. Protected and unclipped DJ is in VG condition with shelf wear to corners and top/bottom of spine but no tears or chips. Contains a number of Miller's most important shorter prose writings.
Seller: White Square - Fine Books & Art, Easthampton, MA, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry. The Cosmological Eye. New Directions, New York, 1939.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Slip with printed illustration of the eye mounted on upper cover. Spine a bit darkened; pastedown darkened; small light stain on upper cover.
Seller: By Books Alone, Woodstock, NY, U.S.A.
MILLER, Henry. The Cosmological Eye. New Directions, Norfolk, Conn, 1939.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition. Publisher's beige linen cloth with the printed paper label (illustration of an eye) on the front board. Both pastedowns are toned with modest soiling to the back pastedown, old stain to the bottom right page corners causing a few pages to stick together at the corner tips, else good or better, lacking the dustwrapper. Miller's first American publication. *Shifreen & Jackson* A23a.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Henry Miller. The Cosmological Eye. New Directions, 1939.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: "The Cosmological Eye" by HENRY MILLER. 1939 1st edition, 1st printing; New Directions; Norfolk, CT. The book is a collection of Miller's most important shorter prose writings from about the same time as 'Tropic of Capricorn,' the period of Miller's life in the famous Villa Seurat in Paris. Condition: Tanning to the cloth along the edges of the covers and along the spine. Small cloth tears at the top 2 cover corners. Tiny cloth tears at the top and bottom edges of the spine. There is a crack at the rear hinge between the last numbered page and the end paper resulting in the back cover being just a bit shaky. The text pages are lightly age-toned, though clean with only a small stain at the top-left corner of page 58. The outer edge of the front end paper has one large stain, and a few smaller stains. Heavy tanning along the gutter between the end papers and pastedowns. Overall the book is in Good condition.
Seller: CraigsClassics, Hudson, NH, U.S.A.
Henry Miller. THE COSMOLOGICAL EYE. New Directions, Norfolk, CT, 1939.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 5 1/2 x 8 3/4 in. Sienna cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. First edition, second state. Condition of book is VERY GOOD ; slight wear to corners, covers very clean, spine slightly lightened by water (which is evident on the inside of the DJ.) Mild foxing to endpapers, binding tight, text very clean, with almost no markings, but a few lines are marked with pencil, easily erased. DJ is GOOD ; not price-clipped ($3.00). Old scotch tape repairs inside, chipping and wear to edges, open tears upper right cover, also lower spine (hole) large closed tears upper spine, some mild foxing. Archivally taped by us and in new Mylar wrapper. Fiction. RGR.
Seller: Andre Strong Bookseller, Blue Hill, ME, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry. The Cosmological Eye. New Directions, Norfolk, Conn., 1939.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: No other printings noted on copyright page. Textblock still tight and square, some dusting to top page edges. Light brown cloth. Jacket has price of $3 on first flap at bottom and has same cover design as true first but back panel mentions Miller on Rimbaud that appears in New Directions 1946 so this jacket and possibly book date to 1946, not 1939. Jacket is whole but there is 3" closed tear on back panel that links to small chip and another small chip at bottom of back panel and quite a bit of creasing and edgewear on front panel (not excessive, still collectible). IN mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Timothy Norlen Bookseller, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$93.68 + shipping
Description: Near fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 363 pages; Description: 363 p. ; 22 cm. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Miller, Henry. THE COSMOLOGICAL EYE. New Directions (1939), Norfolk, 1939.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first issue, with eye on front cover of book. This collection contains a number of Henry Miller's most important shorter prose writings. They are taken from the Paris books Black Spring (1936) and Max and the White Phagocytes (1938) and were for the most part, written at about the same time as Tropic of Capricorn--the period of Miller's and Durrell's life in the famous Villa Seurat in Paris. These critical and philosophical essays, prose poems, surrealist fantasies, travel sketches, and scenarios, show Miller's passion for fiction, for telling the endless stories of his life. In fine condition with pastedowns a little darkened and the photograph on the front cover a touch rubbed. Lacking dust jacket.
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry. THE COSMOLOGICAL EYE. New Directions, 1939.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Large 8vo, about fine in 1st issue d.j.somewhat worn and creased but pretty much all there.VVbrmtv2/2
Seller: NUDEL BOOKS, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry. The Cosmological Eye. New Directions; Norfolk, Ct; 1939/nd, 1939.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: ; 363 pp.; ; VG; The correct first binding cloth is slightly darkened. Lacks the issued jacket. . O'Roark=A65 Shifreen/Jackson=A23.a. [kwA_ 1st Ed. ]
Seller: Watermark West Rare Books, Wichita, KS, U.S.A.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Description: Hard Cover. First Edition. HBDJ, 1939, 1st edition, 2nd Issue, DJ some Rub, Scuff & Wear & some small mended Tears Here & There, Tiny Chips DJ & couple pieces missing approx 1 or 2 inches or so, some Creases DJ, Brown Tan Cloth Gold Gilt, 363 pgs, Interior Nice, Tight , Clean, VG+/G, AS-IS
Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$112.00 + shipping
Description: Near fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 363 pages; Description: 363 p. ; 22 cm. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry (signed). The Cosmological Eye. New Directions, Norfolk, Connecticut, 1939.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: hardcover, brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine, first edition, second issue with no "eye" on front cover, 1939, signed by Henry Miller on front endpaper, very good condition, no dust jacket, writings by Henry Miller. Size: Octavo
Seller: Casa Paloma Books, Green Valley, AZ, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry. The Cosmological Eye. New Directions, Norfolk, Connecticut, 1939.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: In Near Fine condition. Bound in full beige buckram. The spine is stamped in brown; the front panel of this first-state binding has the inset label of 'the cosmological eye.' Octavo. [ix] + 363pps. No dustjacket. There is a faint touch of sunning to the spine and browning to either pastedown (as is common, due to the binder's glue). Otherwise clean, bright, square, and soundly bound. All tips are sharp. No previous ownership markings. A very nice copy of the author's first U. S. publication. ".This collection contains a number of Henry Miller's most important shorter prose writings. They are taken from the Paris books 'Black Spring' (1936) and 'Max and the White Phagocytes' (1938) and were for the most part, written at about the same time as 'Tropic of Capricorn' -- the period of Miller's and Durrell's life in the famous Villa Seurat in Paris." Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be promptly refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books. To assist with your decision, photos can be emailed upon request.
Seller: Nooks Of Books , Elkins Park, PA, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry. The Cosmological Eye. New Directions, 1939.
Price: US$140.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Second State of Book & Jacket. Unclipped DJ in archival cover, large chips, wear.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry. The Cosmological Eye. New Directions, Norfolk, Conneticut, 1939.
Price: US$144.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Solid copy of first printing with beige cloth boards with brown fiber specks. Eye framed in center of front board. It does not appear on later printings. Neat printing of f/o name and June 1941 on front endpaper. Top page edges tanned a bit and has two faint tea drops. Price intact jacket ($2.50 on rear flap) has 2 1/2" chip along head of front panel. Shallow chip at head of spine. Jacket is also the first issue with white lettering over black background along spine which was changed to black lettering with subsequent printings. In mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Timothy Norlen Bookseller, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry. The Cosmological Eye. New Directions, Norwalk, CT, 1939.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printing. First state in publisher's beige cloth boards with brown fiber specks, with spine lettered in brown, and brown and white image of an eye in clouds pasted on the front cover. Very Good, with light lean to spine. Cloth toned at edges and spine. Pages toned, with some corners bent, and several tiny stains to edge of page block. A nice copy, lacking the dust jacket. Shifreen & Jackson A23a.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry. The Cosmological Eye. New Directions, 1939.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book of the Month club edition inscribed by Miller to Bill Pickerall. Wear to the jacket at corners, edges,spine ends, and along the folds. Book Club Edition.
Seller: Ink, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
MILLER, Henry. The Cosmological Eye. New Directions, Norfolk, Conn, 1939.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, second state. Near fine in about very good dustwrapper with modest chips and closed tears. From the library of Steven Heller, renowned art director and author of *Jackets Required: An Illustrated History of American Book Jacket Design*, with his receipt laid in.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, first binding in buckram with tipped on plate on the front cover. Some offsetting to the gutters, as usual with this title. In fine second state dust jacket with the original price of $3.00 intact on the front flap, and the lettering on the spine in black. Very scarce in this nice condition.
Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry.. The Cosmological Eye.. New Directions [1939], Norfolk, 1939.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Later Issue. Pale tan cloth stamped in pale maroon brown, in a black and white dustwrapper, not price-clipped ("$3.00") on front flap. Book is Fine. Dustwrapper is Near Fine with light wear to points, but no tears or chips. 363pp. Q18728
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry. The Cosmological Eye. New Directions, Norfolk, 1939.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A clean example of First Issue of the Book, bound in oatmeal colored cloth with an inserted cover plate. In the First state jacket with $2.50 on the rear flap, white spine lettering. The jacket misses about half the spine panel and shows general edge wear and modest chipping elsewhere. The First Issue jacket is scarce! ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: Gerry Kleier Rare Books, Martinez, CA, U.S.A.
Henry Miller. The Cosmological Eye. New Directions, 1939.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine Copy In Like Jacket. Light offset to Paste dows. First Edition.Second State of Book & Jacket. Excellent Copy.
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA, ILAB, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry. Cosmological Eye.. New Directions, New York, 1939.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition 363 pp First book published in the US. no dj; light wear, glue of binding bleeding through end papers
Seller: Book Stage, Stratford, ON, Canada
Henry Miller. The Cosmological Eye. New Directions, 1939.
Price: US$265.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition. Near fine in the 'first' state oatmeal cloth binding. DJ is VG- and 'first' issue with $2.50 printed on rear flap. . DJ is has been repaired and a has a chip along bottom front and 1/2 inch tear at top with edgewear. Appearance of smudge on rear of DJ over "American Grain" is not actually present. Tanning to inside pastedowns and owner inscription to inside cover. 2000 copies printed. Author's FIRST American book publication.
Seller: EGR Books, Centreville, VA, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry (1891-1980). The Cosmological Eye. Norfolk, Conn. : New Directions, 1939.
Price: US$270.01 + shipping
Description: Finely bound in modern aniline calf over marble boards. Raised bands with gilt-blocked title. Spine compartments uniformly tooled in gilt. An exceptional copy; of presentation quality - scans and additional bibliographic detail on request. ; 363 pages; Description: 363 p. ; 22 cm. Notes: Short stories, sketches, essays, and an autobiographical note. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Miller, Henry. THE COSMOLOGICAL EYE. New Directions, Norfolk, Connecticut, 1939.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo; VG-/G; 393 pages; White jacket spine with black lettering; First edition in second state dust jacket with "3.00" on jacket flap. Jacket is torn with several tears running at the flaps, creasing and tearing to all edges, large chip missing from lower spine; Binding tight; bumping and light wear to the edges of the boards; Interior is age toned as is typical; CX consignment; Shelved case 2. 1345602. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry.. THE COSMOLOGICAL EYE.. New Directions, 1939.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good. First edition second issue without the eye on the cover and price of $3.00 on the dj. SIGNED presentation from Henry Miller. in very good dj with light chipping. light water stain to cover.Endpaper browned from newspaper article.
Seller: Vagabond Books, A.B.A.A., PASADENA, CA, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry.. The Cosmological Eye.. New Directions [1939], Norfolk, Connecticut, 1939.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition Thus, [1939]. Fourth Edition, Schifreen and Jackson A23d, chocolate brown cloth in grey dustwrapper, the design of which (human eye close-up among clouds) bleeds around spine. A Fine copy, in a Very Good or better dustwrapper, not price-clipped, with minor wear to points. This copy INSCRIBED "For _____ _____ from Henry Miller Bon Voyage! 7/30/50." 363pp. Q10088
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry (1891-1980). The Cosmological Eye. Norfolk, Conn. : New Directions, 1939.
Price: US$304.00 + shipping
Description: Finely bound in modern aniline calf over marble boards. Raised bands with gilt-blocked title. Spine compartments uniformly tooled in gilt. An exceptional copy; of presentation quality - scans and additional bibliographic detail on request. ; 363 pages; Description: 363 p. ; 22 cm. Notes: Short stories, sketches, essays, and an autobiographical note. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry. The Cosmological Eye. New Directions, Norfolk, Conneticut, 1939.
Price: US$315.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: States copyright 1939 by New Directions. Has beige cloth boards with brown fiber specks. White lettering on title of DJ spine. The cosmological eye at center on front board panel. Thin line of tanning on endpapers near hinge. Tight and square, attractive copy. Facsimilie of dust jacket is professionally made and without flaw. It is protected in transparent mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Timothy Norlen Bookseller, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry. Cosmological Eye. New Directions, 1939.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Bright oatmeal cloth with eye label on front cover (first issue). Interior is fine. Inscribed and dated. Jackson A 23A
Seller: Route 3 Books, Sandstone, MN, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry.. The Cosmological Eye.. Norfolk New Directions, 1939.
Price: US$330.62 + shipping
Description: IX, 363 pp. Original cloth with dust jacket. First Edition and first printing. First state jacket with $2.50 on the rear flap, white spine lettering. One of 2000 copies. - Browned. Jacket stained and with tears (repaired). Gewicht (Gramm): 578
Seller: Müller & Gräff e.K., Stuttgart, Germany
Miller, Henry. The Cosmological Eye. New Directions, 1939.
Price: US$345.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition, FIrst Printing, First State with tan cloth, toned, with pictorial paste down on front of eye in clouds. Wear at head of spine edge and upper right hand corner. Prior owner name on ffep. Front hinge starting. One of 2,000 copies published. In archival cover.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
MILLER, Henry. The Cosmological Eye. New Directions, Norfolk, Conn, 1939.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Publisher's beige linen cloth with the printed paper label (illustration of an eye) on the front board; and the price "$2.50" printed on the back flap of the dustwrapper. Toning to the endpapers and spine ends, a few pages with a tiny crease to the corner, else near fine in good only stained dustwrapper with noticeable chips to the spine ends, and a few tape repairs on the inside of the jacket at the top of spine. Miller's first American publication. *Shifreen & Jackson* A23a.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
MILLER, Henry. The Cosmological Eye (Review Copy). New Directions, NY, 1939.
Price: US$360.00 + shipping
Description: Bound in tan buckram stamped in brown with the huge illustration of an eye on the front panel. This is a review copy stamped on the front free endpaper with the release date (Nov 21 1939). Dust jacket shows some chipping to extremes, but not affecting any text. Obviously scarce. The author's first American publication. 363 pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Michael J. Toth, Bookseller, ABAA, Springtown, PA, U.S.A.
MILLER, Henry. The Cosmological Eye. New Directions, Norfolk, Conn, 1939.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Publisher's beige linen cloth with the printed paper label (illustration of an eye) on the front board; and the price "$2.50" printed on the back flap of the dustwrapper. Light toning to the endpapers, two pages with a small crease at the corner, near fine in about very good dustwrapper with a few scattered small chips and light creases to the edges and corners. *Shifreen & Jackson* A23a.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, first issue binding of buff or "oatmeal" buckram with tipped on illustration of eye in the clouds. A tight, bright example, offsetting to the half-title from a now absent newspaper clipping or other paper item. In the first issue dust jacket with $2.50 price above publisher's name on rear flap, near fine with a trace of rubbing and a tiny chip at the lower guttre corner of the rear panel. Printed in an edition of 2000 copies only. A collection of various pieces---stories, sketches, an autobiographical note, prose poems, philosophical and critical essays---that revela the scope of Miler's talent and the versatility of his style. A collectible copy indeed.
Seller: Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABAA, ILAB), Bordentown, NJ, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry.. THE COSMOLOGICAL EYE.. NEW DIRECTIONS., NORFOLK, 1939.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Near fine in the 'first' state oatmeal cloth binding with 'eye' label on front cover and 'first' issue Vg.+ or better dj. with $2.50 printed on rear flap. (Price on rear flap crossed out but consistant with 'first' issue point. A few tiny edge chips & traces of light shelf wear to dj. 1 & 1/4"-inch closed tear at head of rear panel of dj.) 2000 copies printed. Author's FIRST American book publication. (GC)
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$585.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 363 Pp. Beige Cloth With Paste-On Illustration Of Eye. First Issue Book And Dj, One Of 2000 Copies, Miller's First Book Publication In The U.S. Bright, Clean Example, Pages Square. No Fading Or Aging To Cloth, A Few Pinpoint Rubs To Cover Paste-On Illustration Of An Eye In The Clouds, A Little Browning To Edges Of Page Block. Some Aging To Endpapers, With Faint Outline Of A Removed Bookplate. On Front Endpaper Is Some Erased Red Pencil "Get Circus Of Dr. Lao - Artzybasheff Illus.", Not In Miller's Hand, With 4 1/2" X 2 3/4" Finely Drawn, High Quality Drawing Of A Bearded Man's Head Looking Just Past The Viewer, In Which Tiny Lines In The Right Of The Beard Include Letters '4M." And Possibly A Few More Letters, Apparently By Pierre Sicart. Inscribed By Miller To Pierre [Probably His Collector And Friend, The Artist Pierre Sicart], "For Pierre - Henry Miller 5/25/1973". Dj Is First Issue, Priced $2.50 On Rear Flap, Eye On Front Panel, Very Slight Wear, 1/8" Deep X 1/4" Long Triangular Chip At Top Of Front Panel With Associated Short Crease, And A 1/4" Closed Tear At Top Of Rear Flap Fold, Exceptionally Well Preserved.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry. The Cosmological Eye.. New Directions, Norfolk, CT, 1939.
Price: US$662.12 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: First edition. vi, 364 pp. Original cloth, without dust jacket. Presentation copy with the author's signature: "To J. Payet-Frederick, in commemoration of what I must say has been the most astonishing since I ever attended. Henry Miller 11/26/45." Cloth. A seal of bookseller pasted on front end paper.
Seller: Yushodo Co., Ltd., Fuefuki-shi, Yamanashi Pref., Japan
Miller, Henry. The Cosmological Eye. New Directions, Norwalk, CT, 1939.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printing, first state. Signed by Henry Miller, with a long inscription on the front free end paper reading "For Marie - to replace the Cyclopean eye with which she scans the horizon in search of buzzards, evening stars and moth balls from the Grand Cosmocrator / [signed] Henry Valentine / Santa Monica / 8/24/41." Bound in publisher's beige cloth boards with brown fiber specks, with spine lettered in brown, and brown and white image of an eye in clouds pasted on the front cover, lacking the dust jacket. Very Good or better, with toning to edges and spine, and a small stain to the spine. Pages toned, endsheets offset. Hinge at title page exposed, though binding is firm. Uncommon signed in the first state. Shifreen & Jackson A23a.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Description: Letters one page each, one letter enclosing a one page POEM IN TYPESCRIPT carbon. 4to. Laughlin to fellow young publisher Charles A. Pearce, on Henry Miller, New Directions, etc. A small but rich group of letters from James Laughlin at the outset of his influential publishing career, to Charles A. Pearce, himself about to strike out on his own as a publisher. Pearce (1906-1970, whom Laughlin addresses in these letters as "Cap") spent ten years as an editor at Harcourt before co-founding (in the year of the present correspondence) the house of Duell, Sloan & Pearce, for which he served as chief editor until its sale to Meredith Press in 1961. Laughlin famously founded New Directions while he was still a student at Harvard, following a suggestion by Ezra Pound and using money he'd inherited from a steel fortune. New Directions published its first work in 1936, and went on to be one of the foremost publishers of modernist literature in its day. The present letters include much discussion of Henry Miller and New Directions' inaugural publication of his work, and make mention of Lawrence Durrell, the New Yorker, the publishing business in general, Laughlin's funding sources, and the end of Laughlin's college career at Harvard. Excerpts: May 4: "Yes, that's a surprise about your leaving Harcourts . I imagine that you were responsible for most of the good things they did and now they'll sink down to the usual level. I'm interested in what you write about Miller. He suggested . I should see you . I have my Divisionals and then my Finals here at Harvard next week and I have to . work like hell, having done no schoolwork the rest of the year. I'm sorry if I've hurt Henry's feelings. He thinks he's God & I just think he's a swell writer . My present plan is to get out a book of Miller's essays and stories in the Fall. This is because I am at present somewhat too hard up to give TROPIC the promotion it would need." June 6: "About your business venture [i.e. Duell, Sloan & Pearce]. It sounds good . If I had the dough free I would invest in you in a minute, providing the two other guys are OK and will do what you tell 'em. The trouble is that all my principle is tied up in the Godforshat stock of J & L [the Jones & Laughlin Steel Company]. I want to get rid of it and move into something else but the market is so depressed at the present time. So I just sit tight . waiting for Roosevelt to get down off his cross and let the boys play dirty like they used to. [T]here are some reasons for doing something of Miller right away - to keep him pacified, to keep people here from thinking he is just a myth. My plan would be to make up a book that would be representative of hiw whole talent. Some essays, some fantasies, some stories, some surrealism." July 26: "Durrell is OK. We'll have sections in ND39. He charges more current into his stuff than any of them. It's exhausting to read. Not pornography so much as sadism. The enclosed is just for your personal perusal. Keep it. It came out in PARTISAN REVIEW" [referencing a 24 line poem about burning books, titled "A Letter to Hitler," present here]. July 5: "The NEW YORKER sounds pretty good to me. They have been printing a lot of good stuff lately and perhaps you can push in a little more. I've about decided to do a miscellaneous volume of Miller this fall entitled THE COSMOLOGICAL EYE . I agree with you that it would be best to do one of his big works first, but I can't handle the financing this year, yet feel I must do something. Both Miller and the stores will lose all patience with me if I don't produce some goods. Choice of evils. Have you read CAPRICORN? . Part of it will go into NEW DIRECTIONS to fix the copyright. It has some powerful passages, some silly ones, and some disgusting ones. Would you and your wife care to come up here some weekend? I hope you are not one of those bastards who play golf instead of tennis." On New Directions letterhead. Paperclip rust at top edge of letters, poem typescript toned and brittle at edges Letters one page each, one letter enclosing a one page POEM IN TYPESCRIPT carbon. 4to
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.