My Life and Times
MILLER, Henry
My Life and Times
New York: Gemini Smith Inc., [Playboy Press], [n.d.]
Folio, bound in full red Japanese silk with ‘Special Edition’ and Miller’s facsimile signature in gilt to the upper board; backstrip lettered vertically in gilt; marbled endpapers; housed in both the original clipped publisher’s dustjacket featuring photographs of Miller; the original publisher’s gold silk slipcase; and the cardboard packing case, lettered in black along the backstrip; pp. [iv] 5-204, [viii]; proliferated throughout with black and white, and full colour photographs, facsimile letters and portions of handwriting; the limitation page and afterword note by Miller (confined to this edition) on quarter-sized pages, followed by a timeline of four pages printed on Japanese brown paper; fine in near-fine jacket, slightly toned/faded, and roughly clipped; slipcase fine, aside from one light strip of sunning; the cardboard a little roughly opened with some tearing to the card; a wonderfully complete copy.
This edition printed and bound in Japan; limited to 500 numbered copies signed by Henry Miller; this no. 201; specially-made marbled endpapers to resemble those ‘in vogue during Henry Miller’s childhood’. The silk is in “an interwoven texture to duplicate the old fashioned hand-loom press. It has been dyed a shade of red resembling the brilliant hue of the setting sun. The Japanese call it Oranji Aka.”
SIGNED BY MILLER and with a chronology of his life specially made for this edition. Published by the Playboy Press, the book was produced in Japan and bound in silk. One of 500, this copy retains its original protective paper box with the printed title to the side.
Miller was perhaps Nin's most significant literary connection and her lover in the 1930s in Paris, when she was married to Hugh Guiler and he June Mansfield. The story of their affair, as fictionalised by Nin, is recorded in Henry and June.
When Hugh Guiler’s bank colleague Richard Osborn brought Henry Miller to meet Anaïs at Louveciennes for the first time, she was allegedly living a Madame Bovary life. She had recently been subsumed in D. H. Lawrence, and real-life affairs, or deep flirtations. Hugh Guiler knew instinctively what Miller represented - a Mellors figure from Lady Chatterley’s Lover to fulfil Anaïs’ fantasy. Guiler apparently wept after Miller departed.
MILLER, Henry
My Life and Times
New York: Gemini Smith Inc., [Playboy Press], [n.d.]
Folio, bound in full red Japanese silk with ‘Special Edition’ and Miller’s facsimile signature in gilt to the upper board; backstrip lettered vertically in gilt; marbled endpapers; housed in both the original clipped publisher’s dustjacket featuring photographs of Miller; the original publisher’s gold silk slipcase; and the cardboard packing case, lettered in black along the backstrip; pp. [iv] 5-204, [viii]; proliferated throughout with black and white, and full colour photographs, facsimile letters and portions of handwriting; the limitation page and afterword note by Miller (confined to this edition) on quarter-sized pages, followed by a timeline of four pages printed on Japanese brown paper; fine in near-fine jacket, slightly toned/faded, and roughly clipped; slipcase fine, aside from one light strip of sunning; the cardboard a little roughly opened with some tearing to the card; a wonderfully complete copy.
This edition printed and bound in Japan; limited to 500 numbered copies signed by Henry Miller; this no. 201; specially-made marbled endpapers to resemble those ‘in vogue during Henry Miller’s childhood’. The silk is in “an interwoven texture to duplicate the old fashioned hand-loom press. It has been dyed a shade of red resembling the brilliant hue of the setting sun. The Japanese call it Oranji Aka.”
SIGNED BY MILLER and with a chronology of his life specially made for this edition. Published by the Playboy Press, the book was produced in Japan and bound in silk. One of 500, this copy retains its original protective paper box with the printed title to the side.
Miller was perhaps Nin's most significant literary connection and her lover in the 1930s in Paris, when she was married to Hugh Guiler and he June Mansfield. The story of their affair, as fictionalised by Nin, is recorded in Henry and June.
When Hugh Guiler’s bank colleague Richard Osborn brought Henry Miller to meet Anaïs at Louveciennes for the first time, she was allegedly living a Madame Bovary life. She had recently been subsumed in D. H. Lawrence, and real-life affairs, or deep flirtations. Hugh Guiler knew instinctively what Miller represented - a Mellors figure from Lady Chatterley’s Lover to fulfil Anaïs’ fantasy. Guiler apparently wept after Miller departed.
MILLER, Henry
My Life and Times
New York: Gemini Smith Inc., [Playboy Press], [n.d.]
Folio, bound in full red Japanese silk with ‘Special Edition’ and Miller’s facsimile signature in gilt to the upper board; backstrip lettered vertically in gilt; marbled endpapers; housed in both the original clipped publisher’s dustjacket featuring photographs of Miller; the original publisher’s gold silk slipcase; and the cardboard packing case, lettered in black along the backstrip; pp. [iv] 5-204, [viii]; proliferated throughout with black and white, and full colour photographs, facsimile letters and portions of handwriting; the limitation page and afterword note by Miller (confined to this edition) on quarter-sized pages, followed by a timeline of four pages printed on Japanese brown paper; fine in near-fine jacket, slightly toned/faded, and roughly clipped; slipcase fine, aside from one light strip of sunning; the cardboard a little roughly opened with some tearing to the card; a wonderfully complete copy.
This edition printed and bound in Japan; limited to 500 numbered copies signed by Henry Miller; this no. 201; specially-made marbled endpapers to resemble those ‘in vogue during Henry Miller’s childhood’. The silk is in “an interwoven texture to duplicate the old fashioned hand-loom press. It has been dyed a shade of red resembling the brilliant hue of the setting sun. The Japanese call it Oranji Aka.”
SIGNED BY MILLER and with a chronology of his life specially made for this edition. Published by the Playboy Press, the book was produced in Japan and bound in silk. One of 500, this copy retains its original protective paper box with the printed title to the side.
Miller was perhaps Nin's most significant literary connection and her lover in the 1930s in Paris, when she was married to Hugh Guiler and he June Mansfield. The story of their affair, as fictionalised by Nin, is recorded in Henry and June.
When Hugh Guiler’s bank colleague Richard Osborn brought Henry Miller to meet Anaïs at Louveciennes for the first time, she was allegedly living a Madame Bovary life. She had recently been subsumed in D. H. Lawrence, and real-life affairs, or deep flirtations. Hugh Guiler knew instinctively what Miller represented - a Mellors figure from Lady Chatterley’s Lover to fulfil Anaïs’ fantasy. Guiler apparently wept after Miller departed.