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The Cosmological Eye
by Miller, Henry
- Used
- very good
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Norwalk, CT: New Directions, 1939. First Edition. Very Good. 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.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 140937261
- Title
- The Cosmological Eye
- Author
- Miller, Henry
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- New Directions
- Place of Publication
- Norwalk, CT
- Date Published
- 1939
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
Terms of Sale
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2010
Portland, Oregon
About Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Burnside Rare Books specializes in literary first editions and works of cultural and historic significance. We are located in Portland, Oregon and welcome visitors by appointment.
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- First State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
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