caresse henry (5 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Fine condition. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine dust jacket. Morance, Peter (jacket design) (illustrateur). 1st printing of 1st hardcove edition. New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1983. Fine condition in a Near Fine dust jacket (only lightly rubbed). NOT price clipped ($12.95). NO owner's name or bookplate. Sharp corners. Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. Pages are fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. 1983. First Printing with "First Hardcover Edition" so stated, and complete number row (10 987654321) on the copyright page. Published 3 years after Miller's death in 1980. Epilogue by Milton Luboviski says only 5 copies of the original 1942 edition were produced (a typescript and 4 carbon copies). Bound in the original black boards with a black cloth spine stamped in bright gold. From the dust jacket: "The Grove Press publication of OPUS PISTORUM brings this recently rediscovered work into print for the first time. Miller wrote OPUS PISTORUM - which translates from the Latin as 'work of the miller' - in 1941 for a Los Angeles bookseller who paid him a dollar a page. We are swept up in his odyssey. Along the way his profoundly original ideas about art, love, and life shine through like jewels." OPUS PISTORUM is said to be an autobiographical account of Miller's erotic adventures in France, where he visited in 1928, and lived from 1930-1939. However the standard bibliography of Miller (by Shifreen & Jackson) says it was not written by him. According to an essay by Roger Jackson in that bibliography (p. 937), Miller formally denied authorship of OPUS PISTORUM on several occasions. The actual authorship is surrounded by mystery, but Caresse Crosby and Virginia Admiral are among the candidates. Anais Nin may have played a role in the sale of the typescript. Shifreen & Jackson A240a. 1st printing of 1st hardcove edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. Illus. by Morance, Peter (jacket design). 8vo. 288pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

1st. Edition. First Printing with a complete numberline. 8vo. 288pp. It seems highly unlikely that Henry Miller really was the author of these extremely salacious stories, despite the claim to the contrary in Milton Luboviski's affidavit that is printed on pp. 287,8. The best background account of the history of "Opus Pistorum" we are aware of is to be found in Shifreen & Jackson, "Henry Miller: A Bibliography of Primary Sources" (1993, pp. 931-938). Miller denied authorship; a more likely candidate was Caresse Crosby. From the library of Patrick J. Kearney, with his small name sticker at the bottom of the front pastedown. Cloth spine and boards in dust jacket. Light shelfwear. Very Good.

Etat : Good. Folio. 16 x 11.75 inches. Sheets loose as issued. No cover. .23 of 26 plates, lacking 1, 13 and 21. Broadsides by Henry Miller, Karl Shaprio, Romare Bearden et al. Poet and publisher. She was born Mary Phelps Jacob, later became Polly Peabody, and finally Caresse Crosby. She received a patent for a design for the first modern brassiere which gained wide acceptance. Along with her second husband, Harry Crosby, and after his suicide, on her own, she published and promoted many of the early modernist writers. Their Black Sun Press produced works by D.H. Lawrence, Kay Boyle, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Hart Crane, among others. She was born in New Rochelle, New York into a prominent New England family. She was the first to design and patent an undergarment named 'Brassiere,' derived from the old French word for 'upper arm'. On November 3, 1914, the U.S. Patent Office issued a patent for the 'Backless Brassiere'. In 1915, at age 24, she married Richard Rogers Peabody. They had two children and divorced. On September 9, 1922, at age 28, she married Harry Grew Crosby.In 1937, at age 47, she married Selbert Young, a football player nearly twenty years her junior. She opened an art gallery in Washington D.C. and started Portfolio, a magazine about art and literature. She also was politically active and founded the organization Women Against War. In 1950, Caresse divorced Selbert Young and moved to Rocca Sinibalda, Italy, where she planned to create an artist's colony. She published an autobiography in 1953 called The Passionate Years. In the last years of her life, she tried to build a world citizen center that would bring together political leaders and the artistic community in Greece and then in Cyprus. Frustrated by political obstacles, she died in Rome of heart failure in 1970 at age 79, before its completion.

Etat : Very Good. First Edition. Complete set of the broadsides which comprise the first installment of Portfolio, including Henry Miller's great essay "The Staff of Life" which is INSCRIBED & dated in 1976 by Henry Miller to his longtime friend Kenny Du Main. Also pieces by Kay Boyle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Rene Crevel & several others. A very good+ copy in somewhat rubbed folio-size card covers which are string-tied. The binding on the covers has been neatly strengthened with black archival tape. A few edge tears in some leaves, but not the Henry Miller piece.; Signed by Author(s).

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. First Edition. Volume III, Spring 1946. Complete in 31 broadsides (numbered 1-28, with Book reviews, plus "Cover Leaf" and "Foreleaf") in fragile yellow wraps with pockets. One of approximately 1000 copies. Krumhansl 1. Very Good overall. Wraps, as is typical, are in fair shape-- split, foxed, and chipped. Occaisional corner bumping, edge chipping, and slight creasing to broadsides; foxing spot on TOC page. Bukowski broadside lightly foxed with a bit of edge wear. Apart from being a literary magazine composed of beautifully-printed broadsides with Henry Miller as its prose editor, this issue is quite scarce complete, featuring contributions from such 20th Century luminaries as Henry Miller, Sartre, Boyle, Genet, Garcia Lorca, Rexroth, and the first separate publication of Charles Bukowski, preceding his first book, Flower, Fist and Bestial Wail, by 14 years.