Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Durrell, Lawrence, editor. The Henry Miller Reader. A New Directions Book, NY, 1959.
Price: US$4.59 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 397pp. Light wear. Photos on request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Valley Books, AMHERST, MA, U.S.A.
Durrell, Lawrence. The Henry Miller reader. New Directions, 1959.
Price: US$5.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Piece(s) of the spine missing. Mylar protector included. Solid binding. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item.
Seller: Library House Internet Sales, Grand Rapids, OH, U.S.A.
Durrell, Lawrence ed.. Henry Miller Reader. New Directions New York 1959, 1959.
Price: US$7.50 + shipping
Description: Hardbound Good+/Fair., DJ 8vo, 397, General wear to covers. DJ is heavily worn, with multiple edge tears. DJ is price clipped. "Marlboro Book Club" slug on DJ front flap.
Seller: Table of Contents, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.
Durrell, Lawrence ed.. THE HENRY MILLER READER. New Directions, 1959.
Price: US$9.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: (1959), 397pp, slight soiling to cover, wear to dj.
Seller: Russ States, Oil City, PA, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry; (Introduction by Lawrence Durrell). The Henry Miller Rader. New Directions, NY, 1959.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good in a good, priceclipped dustjacket with light edgewear and sunned spine. No markings. (box 69)
Seller: Bruce Davidson Books, Arlington, MA, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry. The Henry Miller Reader. New Directions, 1959.
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Fading to jacket on spine.
Seller: Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA, Austin, MN, U.S.A.
MILLER, Henry. THE HENRY MILLER READER; Edited by Lawrence Durrell. New Directions, NY, 1959.
Price: US$13.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. 397. Includes a chronology and bibliography. Cover faded. VG. Essays, stories and short pieces.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry. The Henry Miller Reader. New Directions, 1959.
Price: US$13.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Nice book club copy that mimics the look of the first edition. Jacket has several short closed tears, and the spine is sunned.
Seller: Craig Hokenson Bookseller, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Durrell, Lawrence. The Henry Miller Reader. New Directions Books, New York, 1959.
Price: US$14.20 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Full-bound red cloth, LOC # 59-15022, Dustjacket in mylar cover, No statement of edition, "From Black Spring" in ink on table of contents - else fine. $6.50 price on dustjacket. Dustjacket has several chips and closed tears.
Seller: Maxwell Books, Port Hadlock, WA, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry. The HENRY MILLER READER. New Directions, Norfolk,Conn., 1959.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover,( Red Cloth); 8vo.397pp. Tight. D/j with two edgetears, small spot of soiling rear panal, Spine slightly sunned, else Near Fine in the bright Marlboro Book Club D/j. (Price of $6.50 has not been clipped).
Seller: Shamrock Books, Lubbock, TX, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry. The Henry Miller Reader. New Directions, 1959.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 397 p. Includes bibliography. A selection of Miller's writing from previous books. This edition is a solid reader copy. Good in fair dust jacket. Book shows wear along top and bottom edges. DJ is missing a quarter piece at lower outside front corner. Chipping along top and bottom. Red Cloth with gilt lettered spine. $6.50 on front flap.
Seller: Outrider Book Gallery, Lacey, WA, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry. THE HENRY MILLER READER. New Directions, NY, 1959.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Marlboro Book Club edition with price on DJ. Spine of DJ is faded, text is clean. ;
Seller: Mostly Useful Fictions IOBA, Commack, NY, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry. The Henry Miller Reader. New Directions, New York, 1959.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Tight and straight typical used copy, jacket nicked, spine sunned.
Seller: Craig Hokenson Bookseller, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Durrell, Lawrence. The Henry Miller Reader. New Directions Books, NY, 1959.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description:
Seller: M & M Books, ATHENS, GA, U.S.A.
Henry Miller. The Henry Miller Reader. New Directions, 1959.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, First Printing. Very Good condition. No dustjacket.
Seller: My Book Heaven, Alameda, CA, U.S.A.
DURRELL, Lawrence (ed). The Henry Miller Reader. New Directions, New York, 1959.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good/Hardcover no dustwrapper Very light browning. Cover lightly rubbed, very minor wear on spine ends. Spine browned. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Durrell, Lawrence, edited by. The Henry Miller Reader. New Directions, (New York), 1959.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition. Edited and with an introduction by Lawrence Durrell. Modest edgewear, near fine in a good only edgeworn dustwrapper with internal tape repair, spine sunned.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Edited with an introduction by Lawrence Durrell. Edges of red cloth and pages lightly soiled, else very good in a good only dustwrapper with edges chipped and stained. Marboro Book Club dustwrapper.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry. The Henry Miller Reader. New Directions, 1959.
Price: US$24.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Ed. with Intro. by Lawrence Durrell. Sturdy, thicker book, quality red cloth, bright gilt lettering on spine, 397 pages. DJ glossy and colorfully designed, a close-up photo of Miller at center front. DJ has many tiny and larger tears to all edges. Fair DJ/Very Fine book.
Seller: Callaghan Books South, New Port Richey, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Edited and with an introduction by Lawrence Durrell. Also prints an author's introduction. Binding slightly cocked, edges lightly foxed and topstain a bit sunned at the crown, very good in a moderately worn, about very good dust jacket with a short tear on the upper shoulder and a sunned spine (although not as bad as sometimes seen on this title).
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. First edition. Top edge a bit dusty, endpapers just a bit tanned, a nearly fine copy in very good or somewhat better dust jacket with orange ink on spine panel faded and spotting along flap folds. (#157789)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry. The Henry Miller Reader. New Directions, Norfolk, Conneticut, 1959.
Price: US$27.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Red cloth with gilt lettering very close to fine. Minor crimping at head of spine, else fine. Tight, square and clean. No markings. Jacket spine sunned on spine where orange background has become beige, even white. One very small closed tear. In mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Timothy Norlen Bookseller, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry ; (Lawrence Durrell--ed.). The Henry Miller Reader. New Directions, Norfolk, CT, 1959.
Price: US$28.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Edited, with a 3-pp. introduction by Lawrence Durrell. A clean, unmarked, very good+ copy in a spine-faded, moderately worn, unclipped dustjacket with tiny bit of chipping at points and spina l extremities. 1st ed. Binding is HB.
Seller: Tony Power, Books, North Vancouver, BC, Canada
Miller, Henry; Lawrence Durrell [Introduction}. The Henry Miller Reader. New Directions, 1959.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Copyright 1959, no additional printings/editions indicated. Very good hardcover with a good DJ, from a personal collection (NOT ex-library). Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; light edgewear to red cloth boards, gold gilt titling on spine remains bright and bold. Text is very good throughout. Interior appears free of markings. Unclipped dust jacket ($6.50) is good with edgewear, rubbing, sunning to spine, small closed tears. Jacket arrives wrapped in protective Mylar. Due to the size/weight of this book extra charges may apply for international shipping. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Seller: Book House in Dinkytown, IOBA, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Lawrence Durrell, Editor. The Henry Miller Reader. New Directions - James Laughlin, 1959.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First American Edition / First Printing. very Good DJ has light edge wear. Rear panel has darkened somewhat with age. Someone in the past taped the DJ to the book covers, front and back, top and bottom. Tape residue remains on the DJ. It is in a mylar cover. Book has clean covers with sharp corners; solid squared binding. Clean textblock. There is a pasted down newspaper 1" clipping giving a Tropic of Cancer quote on the ffep. In addition, there is a laid in newspaper clipping on Miller. Appended Aphorisms; Defense of the Freedom to read; Chronology; Bibliography.
Seller: North American Rarities, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
MILLER, HENRY. The Henry Miller Reader. New Directions, Norfolk, CT, 1959.
Price: US$32.50 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition. Edited with an Introduction by Lawrence Durrell. Includes a prickly preface and selection commentaries by Miller, with a bibliography of Miller's works through 1959. Fine in about very good dustjacket with pale orange color uniformly faded to yellow on spine, short closed edge tear, light dustsoiling, foxing to reverse side.
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Close to fine in a Vg.+ dj. (A few short edge nicks at corners of dj. Spine on dj. discolored as usual. A few mild traces of shelfwear to dj.)
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry. The Henry Miller Reader. NY: New Directions, 1959.
Price: US$36.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine hardcover in a Near Fine dj (a few small 1/4" tears to top dj spine). A nice copy - clean text, tight binding, bright dj. Edited, with an introduction, by Lawrence Durrell. Dj covered in protective mylar. No edition or printing stated to copyright page. Original dj printed price still present at upper front inner dj flap.397pp.
Seller: Peter Lenz Bookseller, Cohoes, NY, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry. The Henry Miller Reader. NY: New Directions, 1959.
Price: US$36.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near Fine hardcover in a Near Fine dj (slight wear; small 1/4" triangular chip top dj spine). First Edition, First Printing. Edited, with an introduction, by Lawrence Durrell.
Seller: Peter Lenz Bookseller, Cohoes, NY, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry. THE HENRY MILLER READER. New Directions, NY, 1959.
Price: US$38.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Marlboro Book Club edition with price on DJ. One small stain on FFEP. ;
Seller: Mostly Useful Fictions IOBA, Commack, NY, U.S.A.
Henry Miller. The Henry Miller Reader. New Directions, 1959.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Publisher: New Directions, Norfolk, CT, 1959. NEAR FINE hardcover book in NEAR FINE mylar-protected dust-jacket. Not remainder marked. Not price-clipped. First Edition, First Printing.
Seller: Glands of Destiny First Edition Books, Sedro Woolley, WA, U.S.A.
Henry Miller. The Henry Miller Reader. New Directions Books, New York City NY USA, 1959.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Book is in good condition, very clean with writing or markings anywhere. Inside end paper has foxed slightly. Does have dust jacket that has a lot of wear and tear, with many rips on upper and lower spine and on edges of cover. This is an anthology of Henry Millers best! It is edited by and an introduction by Lawrence Durrell. It is a Marboro Book Club edition. The Table of Contents is divided into six sections, Places; which contains excerpts from Tropic of Cancer and Black Spring, Stories, Literary Essays, Portraits, Aphorisms and an Appendix which contains The Defense of the Freedom to Read, a Chronology and Bibliography.
Seller: Calm Water Books, Shediac, NB, Canada
[Miller, Henry]. Durrell, Lawrence (ed.). The Henry Miller Reader.. New Directions Books, 1959.
Price: US$44.35 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: xvi, 397 pp. Original cloth. Spine very lightly sunned. No dust jacket. Chronology, Bibliography, A selection of stories and essays.
Seller: Yushodo Co., Ltd., Fuefuki-shi, Yamanashi Pref., Japan
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition of this selection of works by Henry Miller, edited with an introduction by Lawrence Durrell and commentary by Miller. A fine copy in red cloth, gilt titles to the spine in a near fine pictorial dustwrapper with some light use. 8vo. 397 pp. Including excerpts from, Black Spring, Tropic of Cancer, The Colossus of Maroussi, Sexus, Big Sur et al.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
MILLER, Henry.. The Henry Miller Reader.. NY: New Directions (1959)., 1959.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: xvi + 397 pp w/chronology & bibliography. Very near fine in very good plus dust jacket with one closed tear, light edgewear, and sunned spine. Edited, with an introduction by Lawrence Durrell with a preface by Miller. Review slip laid in. Shifreen & Jackson A119a.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry. The Henry Miller Reader. New Directions, NY, 1959.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: This is a Fine copy of the first edition in a Fine dust jacket. No tears, chips or other flaws. NOT price clipped.
Seller: Nilbog Books, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry. THE HENRY MILLER READER. New Directions, 1959.
Price: US$58.00 + shipping
Description: THE HENRY MILLER READER, New Directions, 1959, lst ed., near fine in vg+ dust-wrapper with one closed tear.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Durrell, Lawrence (Ed.). The Henry Miller Reader.. New Directions Books (1959), 1959.
Price: US$61.36 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: xvi, 397pp. Cooth.
Seller: Yushodo Co., Ltd., Fuefuki-shi, Yamanashi Pref., Japan
Miller, Henry.. The Air-Conditioned Nightmare.. New Directions, New York, 1959.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Originally published by New Directions in 1945, this is the Third American Edition, Fourth overall. Shifreen & Jackson A50d. A Fine copy in smooth pale grey cloth (spine-ends slightly pinched), in a Very Good or better grey pictorial dustwrapper, not price-clipped, with a new tiny nicks. 292pp. Essays about America. Q14550
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: With owner's signature, otherwise like new in a bright, practically perfect jacket with original $6.50 price. An anthology of the best of Henry Miller edited by Lawrence Durrell. Jacket has Miller's portrait on front panel.
Seller: MARIE BOTTINI, BOOKSELLER, Cotati, CA, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry; Lawrence Durrell, editor. The Henry Miller Reader. New Directions, New York, 1959.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: DJ in archival cover. Precious owners stamp.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry; Durrell, Lawrence (editor). The Henry Miller Reader. New Directions, 1959.
Price: US$128.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Jacket chipped and soiled. Spine faded. Tanning. Marboro BOok CLub.
Seller: SuzyQBooks, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry. The Henry Miller Reader. New Directions, 1959.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Singed and dated inscription by Miller. Near fine book with bright gilt and a clean interior in a very good clipped jacket with a sunned spine and a few small chips and tears. Jackson A 119A. Introduction by Lawrence Durrell. Stories, essays, portraits and writings about people and places. A very good cross section of Miller's writings up to this time.
Seller: Route 3 Books, Sandstone, MN, U.S.A.
Miller, Henry. The Henry Miller Reader - signiert - signed. New Directions Books, Norfolk, 1959.
Price: US$191.44 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: auf Titel signiert von dem amerikanischen Schriftsteller Henry Miller (1891-1980), leichte Gebrauchsspuren, Papier altersgebräunt, etwas stockfleckig, Schnitt stockfleckig. Signed by author Size: 8°
Seller: Antiquariat Luna, Lüneburg, Germany
Miller, Henry. The Henry Miller Reader. New Directions, New York, 1959.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st Edition. SIGNED by Miller on a bookplate decal affixed to front end page (signature only). Previous owner's small address label on front pastedown (covered by DJ flap). Light shelf edge wear. DJ has light rubbing and fade to spine. $6.50 price on DJ flap; mylar protected. Intoduction by Lawrence Durrell. (Bonus: Comes with an unsigned 1st Edition hardcover copy of "Dear, Dear Brenda: The Love Letters of Henry Miller to Brenda Venus" plus another unsigned 1st Printing hardcover copy of Miller's "Crazy Cock"). Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Daniel Montemarano, Newfield, NJ, U.S.A.
Henry MIller. The Henry Miller Reader. New Directions, 1959.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Inscribed to (friend and collector) Pierre Sicari, SIGNED, and dated by Henry MIller on the half title page. The volume is edge rubbed, has some soiling on the spine and rear panel, and is sunned on the rear panel. Pasted to penultimate and rear endpaper are jacket flaps. The dust jacket (married) has a horizontal section clipped (along with the $6.50 price) from the top edge of the front flap. The jacket is chipped at the spine ends and corners, rubbed with some abrasions on the front panel and edges, soiled on the rear panel, and sunned on the spine. The jacket is sleeved in mylar.
Seller: Trilby & Co. Books, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
MILLER, Henry. (Lawrence Durrell). The Henry Miller Reader. New Directions, [New York, 1959.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Edited with an introduction by Lawrence Durrell. Galley proofs of Durrell's Introduction, and Miller's Author's Preface. Two folio leaves, each folded to make 8 pages. From the library of former New Directions publicity director Edwin V. Erbe. Scarce, possibly unique.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Stringbound proof with New York Times Book Review slip paper-clipped to the cover sheet, requesting 500 words by November 2nd from one Harry T. Moore (note - NOT murdered NAACP leader Harry Tyson Moore, who was killed in 1951). This Moore seems to have reviewed books for the Times in the late '50s and early '60s; more info seems impossible to find online, due to the much more famous man of the same name. String-bound sheets, as pictured. Generally good+, showing light wear, creasing, some damage to page edges; NYT slip tanned, creased, chipped, torn; some rust stains from the paperclip, other minor stains. Front matter including the title page & table of contents absent, up to and including page [iv], probably as issued - at least, it's been this way for a while. Text clean; pages v-x, [1]-368, printed on one side only - though Miller's introduction mentions an index & bibliography, they are not included. Size: 5½" By 9¼"
Seller: Bookworks [MWABA, IOBA], Beloit, WI, U.S.A.