'Here, even if I had a thousand dollar in my pocket, I know of no sight which could arouse in me the feeling of ecstasy' Looking back to Henry Miller's bohemian life in 1930s Paris, when he was an obscure, penniless writer, Quiet Days in Clichy is a love letter to a city. As he describes nocturnal wanderings through shabby Montmartre streets, caf???s and bars, sexual liaisons and volatile love affairs, Miller brilliantly evokes a period that would shape his entire life and oeuvre. 'His writing is flamboyant, torrential, ...
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'Here, even if I had a thousand dollar in my pocket, I know of no sight which could arouse in me the feeling of ecstasy' Looking back to Henry Miller's bohemian life in 1930s Paris, when he was an obscure, penniless writer, Quiet Days in Clichy is a love letter to a city. As he describes nocturnal wanderings through shabby Montmartre streets, caf???s and bars, sexual liaisons and volatile love affairs, Miller brilliantly evokes a period that would shape his entire life and oeuvre. 'His writing is flamboyant, torrential, chaotic, treacherous, and dangerous' Ana???s Nin
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Like New. Size: 5x0x7; First Edition, First Printing. Hardly any sign of use with No Writing in text. Ships with tracking the same or next business day from New Haven, CT. We fully guarantee to ship the exact same item as listed and work hard to maintain our excellent customer service.
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Book. 10mo., 171 pages. In Good minus condition. Bound in yellow, black, and gray wraps with no lettering to spine. Creasing to spine. A notoriously delicate binding, this copy has glue visible along the gutters, gatherings separated from spine at second free end paper, name on second free end paper, pen on rear flap. States 'First and Original Edition' on title-page. Shelved in Case 2. A novella covering Miller's time living as a struggling writer in Paris during the 1930s, roughly during the same time that he was working on Black Spring. This first edition was published by Olympia Press in 1956 while Miller's work was still being censored in the United States. It would finally see an American release in 1965, after Miller won his obscenity case over the content of Tropic of Cancer. This 1956 edition features black and white photography by Hungarian-born photographer Brassaď (Gyula Halász), who Miller had elsewhere called "the eye of Paris." 1326658. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. First edition, first printing. In publisher's black and grey illustrated dust jacket over plain stiff wraps. Very Good. Lean to spine. Binding over-opened at front hinge. Contents toned and with light foxing to textblock edge. A novella based on Miller's experiences as an American expatriate living in Paris, coupled with the Hungarian-born photographer Brassai's nocturnal images of the city printed in gravure.
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Very good. Paperback. First Edition. Illustrated with photographs by Brassai [here in the matte state] Hairline crease to spine, some light wear to the extremities, else a very good, nicer than usual copy in publisher's wraps and integral dustjacket.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Second edition. Photographs by Brassai. Bound sheets in dustwrapper as issued. About fine in an attractive, about fine dustwrapper with a little modest rubbing at the extremities.
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Fine. Photographs by Brassai. Small 8vo, stiff pictorial wrappers, printed in gray, yellow, white and black. Paris: Olympia Press, 1956. First Edition. Fine, in cloth slipcase. Unobtrusive vertical crease on spine, from opening this stiffly bound book. First printing, with photos in matte finish. Shifreen & Jackson, A100a.