Max and the White Phagocytes
by Henry Miller
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Indeed
- Seller
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Paris : The Obelisk Press, 1938. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 9.5" by 6" . None . A smart copy of this first edition collection of short stories by Henry Miller, rebound in full cloth. The first edition of this work, one of one-thousand copies printed of this edition (A Bibliography of Primary Sources by Lawrence Shifreen and Roger Jackson, A19a). Second work in the 'Villa Seurat' series by Henry Miller, containing a collection of twelve short prose pieces.Rebound in full cloth, with renewed endpapers.Henry Miller was an American novelist known for his innovative work with the genre of semi-autobiographical novel. Rebound in full cloth, renewed endpapers. Externally smart with minor shelf wear, minor bumping to head and tail of spine and extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and browned, as usual due to type of paper used. Very Good Indeed
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rooke Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 830A7
- Title
- Max and the White Phagocytes
- Author
- Henry Miller
- Illustrator
- None
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Indeed
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Obelisk Press
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1938
- Size
- 9.5" by 6"
- Keywords
- first editions henry miller short stories henry miller
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Rooke Books
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BATH, Somerset
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- Cloth
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- Shelf Wear
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- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- 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....