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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.
Henry Miller; Bezalel Schatz. Into the Night Life. Henry Miller and Bezalel Schatz, 1947.
Price: US$850.00 + 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.
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.
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$1610.59 + 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
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.
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.