Out of the sea, as if Homer himself had arranged it for me, the islands bobbed up, lonely, deserted, mysterious in the fading light...I had everything a man could desire, and I knew it. I knew too that I might never have it again. I felt the war coming on - it was getting closer and closer every day. For a little while yet there would be peace and men might still behave like human beings. Just before the outbreak of World War II, the American Henry Miller, who had been living in Paris after the publication of his novels ...
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Out of the sea, as if Homer himself had arranged it for me, the islands bobbed up, lonely, deserted, mysterious in the fading light...I had everything a man could desire, and I knew it. I knew too that I might never have it again. I felt the war coming on - it was getting closer and closer every day. For a little while yet there would be peace and men might still behave like human beings. Just before the outbreak of World War II, the American Henry Miller, who had been living in Paris after the publication of his novels "Tropic of Cancer" and "Tropic of Capricorn", took a boat to Athens in the heat of summer. There he met his friend Lawrence Durrell, who took him to Corfu. Miller's exploration of Greece - Athens, the islands and the Pelopponese - was later described by him as the 'high water mark in life's adventures thus far'. In beautiful and passionate prose, he perfectly captures the splendour and magic of the country, concentrating not only on the landscape but also the people. His classic narrative is peppered with fabulous portraits of poets and artists, chief among them Katsimbalis, the Colossus himself.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed. First Edition. First ed. SIGNED and inscribed by Miller on ffep. Tanning to jacket, minor chipping at top back of jacket. Pages/boards clean, binding tight. Very Clean Copy-Over 500, 000 Internet Orders Filled.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Second American edition. Signed by Henry Miller on the front free end paper. Publisher's black cloth with spine decorated in gilt. Near Fine with pages toned, bottom edge of boards lightly rubbed. In a Very Good dust jacket, edge-worn with several large chips, fading to the spine. An impressionist travelogue. Shifreen & Jackson A26g.
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Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. First New Directions edition, after the Colt Press first printing. INSCRIBED by Henry Miller to longtime friend Kenny Du Main on first blank. Near fine in black cloth with some age darkening to rear end paper & paste down & small damp spot at top edge, in very good dust jacket with front panel neatly separated at edge of spine. Light traces of soiling & couple tiny chips. One of Miller's most engaging works.; 8" x 9"; 244 pages.
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Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. True first edition. (Precedes the New Directions printing) Near fine in very good+ or better dust jacket. (244pp. ) (Clear tape mends on interior of dust jacket. Light shelf-wear at spine ends. ) Apart from his Paris books this is Miller's most evocative and insightful work.; 6" x 9 1/2"; 244 pages.
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Good. First Penguin edition. Good plus in moderately worn, but intact wrappers. Inscribed by the author to his former wife June Mansfield: "For June – the very last copy of this edition! Henry 6/21/57 Sent me from Tasmania! " Though Miller and Mansfield, the inspiration and impetus for most of his major works, parted ways in 1934, they remained close for decades and he continued to send her copies of his books long after their divorce.
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Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. True first edition. (Followed by the New Directions edition published in 1946) Close to fine in blue cloth with white paper label at spine in near fine dust jacket with trace of off-setting on rear panel of jacket. ) One of the author's best books. A must read for Pan-Hellenes everywhere. Elusive in nice condition.
