ISBN10: 088496082X, ISBN13: 9780884960829, [publisher: Capra Press] Hardcover New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 2.15
[North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1978]

Capra Press. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Capra Press ISBN 088496082x 9780884960829 [US]

ISBN10: 088496082X, ISBN13: 9780884960829, [publisher: Capra Press] Hardcover First Edition Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
[Reno, NV, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1978]

ISBN10: 088496082X, ISBN13: 9780884960829, [publisher: California : Capra Press] Hardcover First Edition Near fine cloth copy in a very good slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 560 pages; Description: xi, 560 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Subject : Miller, Henry, -- 1891-1980. Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography. 1 Kg.
[Galway, Ireland] [Publication Year: 1978]
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Santa Barbara: Capra Press, Date: 1978. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x6x2. Signed by author. First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Edges lightly rubbed and foxed. 1978 Hard Cover. xi, 560 pp. "Practically everything bohemian Miller's ever written has been about himself--so any attempt at biography is almost automatically placed in a competitive position. Martin gives it his all. The life boils down to three basic stages. A miserable existence until age 35, working for Western Union as a dispatcher, not yet writing, and suffering like a Marcel over Albertine-like, gold-digging June, second wife of an eventual run of five. Then, Paris: relief at being free and an explosion of bohemianism--Tropic of Cancer. Finally, the return to America: more poverty (not until he was 60 did Miller earn more than $3000 a year), but success growing on the slopes of scandal; the censorship trials; fame; Big Sur; guruhood thrust on a man who remained a German-meticulous romantic hoping to make up for a life haft down the tubes. Martin is nothing if not sympathetic; Miller's own terms, so massively spelled out in his books, are the ones in operation here. To the point that-and this is where readers will divide over this book-Martin consciously writes like Miller: all the obscenity, corny metaphysics, and baroque sufferingartist stuff. Martin, who approached Nathanel West previously in a very different fashion, clearly made a conscious ...

ISBN10: 088496082X, ISBN13: 9780884960829, [publisher: Capra Press] Hardcover First Edition First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Edges lightly rubbed and foxed. 1978 Hard Cover. xi, 560 pp. "Practically everything bohemian Miller's ever written has been about himself--so any attempt at biography is almost automatically placed in a competitive position. Martin gives it his all. The life boils down to three basic stages. A miserable existence until age 35, working for Western Union as a dispatcher, not yet writing, and suffering like a Marcel over Albertine-like, gold-digging June, second wife of an eventual run of five. Then, Paris: relief at being free and an explosion of bohemianism--Tropic of Cancer. Finally, the return to America: more poverty (not until he was 60 did Miller earn more than $3000 a year), but success growing on the slopes of scandal; the censorship trials; fame; Big Sur; guruhood thrust on a man who remained a German-meticulous romantic hoping to make up for a life haft down the tubes. Martin is nothing if not sympathetic; Miller's own terms, so massively spelled out in his books, are the ones in operation here. To the point that-and this is where readers will divide over this book-Martin consciously writes like Miller: all the obscenity, corny metaphysics, and baroque sufferingartist stuff. Martin, who approached Nathanel West previously in a very different fashion, clearly made a conscious decision--that there was ...

ISBN10: 088496082X, ISBN13: 9780884960829, [publisher: Sheldon Press, Santa Barbara: Capra Press/ London] Hardcover First Edition First edition. 560pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with edgewear. Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip laid in. Signed by Jay Martin.
[Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1978]
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Santa Barbara: Capra Press/ London Sheldon Press 1978 Hardcover Fine in Near Fine jacket First edition. 560pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with edgewear. Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip laid in. Signed by Jay Martin.

ISBN10: 088496082X, ISBN13: 9780884960829, [publisher: Sheldon Press, Santa Barbara: Capra Press/ London] Hardcover First Edition First edition. 560pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with edgewear. Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip laid in. Signed by Jay Martin.
[Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1978]
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