REMEMBER TO REMEMBER: Volume 2 of the Airconditioned Nightmare

New Directions, 1947-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. Hardcover, First Edition (with plates) 1947 New Directions Books 427 pages. Near Fine, in a VG+ DJ. Maroon cloth boards with gilt spine titles and accents - corners sharp. Minor shelf/edge wear and two small closed tears to unclipped surrealist DJ (designed by Simon Greco) - now in mylar. Variant first edition with Miller photo facing page viii, Anderson Creek illustration facing page xxxii and 6 additional plates. Vol. 2 of the Air-Conditioned Nightmare.12 essays. As always, Miller is Miller. Henry Valentine Miller (December 26, 1891 – June 7, 1980) was an American writer, known for breaking with existing literary forms and developing a new type of semi-autobiographical novel that blended character study, social criticism, philosophical reflection, stream of consciousness, explicit language, sex, surrealist free association, and mysticism. In 1940, Miller returned to New York; after a year-long trip around the United States, a journey that would become material for The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, he moved to California in June 1942, initially residing just outside Hollywood in Beverly Glen, before settling in Big Sur in 1944. Miller was widely critical of consumerism in America, as reflected in The Air-Conditioned Nightmare (1945). A very handsome vintage copy of the variant edition in the splendid unclipped Simon Greco DJ. LOC FB-03