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Miller, Henry. The Cosmological Eye - signiert - signed. New Directions Books, Norfolk, 1939.
Price: US$72.10 + 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
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 [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. 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.
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, 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.