MONEY AND HOW IT GETS THAT WAY by HENRY MILLER - 1938

Berkeley, CA: Bern Porter, 1946. Book. Illus. by Wright, Jack. Very Good. Soft cover. 2nd Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Paperback, 4 1/2" x 9 1/2", illustrated in black and white. Wear to top and bottom edges wear wraps extend beyond edges of text block. Pages fine..

Paris: Booster Publications, 1938. Uncut copy and in very good condition This copy is not signed by Miller and does not have the manuscript copyright information found in most examples 64 pp pp.

Bern Porter, 1946. Softcover. Good. Signed. Second edition, one of 1500 copies. Inscribed to his friend and collector, Pierre Sicari, and SIGNED by Henry Miller on the front fly. Bookplate of Pierre Sicari on verso of front cover. The lightly soiled covers are edge rubbed, bent at the extremities (conforming to the size of the text sheets), and chipped (about 1/2") at the spine ends. The interior is lightly age toned.

Paris: Booster Publications, 1938. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Wraps. With the copyright statement handwritten by Miller on the verso of the dedication page: "First published September 1938, Copyright by the author in all countries, including greater and lesser Germany, Japan and Soviet Russia." Covers a bit rubbed and scuffed; first page starting.

Paris: Booster Publications, 1938. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Small octavo. 64pp. Black wrappers printed in gold. Very slight tanning in text printed on acidic paper, else a fine copy with the wrappers very bright and crisp. Limited to 495 copies. *Shifreen & Jackson* A18a, issued as Booster Broadside No. 1. A very nice copy.

Paris: Booster Publications, 1938. 1st Edition. Paper. Good/No Jacket. Wrappers. Inscribed on dedication page by Miller. First edition. Good only, cover detached, first few pages loose, in custom cloth slipcase. Good.

Pairs: Booster Publications, [1938].. First edition.. 64 pp. Very near fine in printed black wrappers. Miller has added a holograph statement opposite the title page, “First published September 1938 / Edition limited to 495 copies / Copyright by the author in all/ countries including greater and / lesser Germany, Japan and / Soviet Russia.” Booster Broadside No. 1. Shifreen & Jackson A18A.

Paris,: Booster:, 1938. A beautiful copy; original wrappers burnished in gold. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY HENRY MILLER TO AUTHOR WILLIAM SAROYAN - "For Bill Saroyan, Greetings! Henry Miller, 1938" . Housed in a custom cloth chemise and 1/4 gilt-lettered clamshell box.. First Edition. Original Green Cloth. Near Fine. 8vo..

Paris: Booster Publications, 1938. First Edition. A pair of distinguished copies inscribed to Huntington Cairns, a young Baltimore lawyer who in September 1934 was appointed official U.S. Censor by the Secretary of the Treasury. It was Cairns who declared Miller's 1934 novel Tropic of Cancer (and subsequently, Black Spring, Tropic of Capricorn, and The Rosy Crucifixion) obscene based on the laws of the day, despite his admiration for Miller as an author and artist. His decision led to a 25-year correspondence and friendship between censor and author. In Money, Miller offers his "meditations and lucubrations" on the subject - the direct result of receiving a postcard from Ezra Pound, who asked him "if he had ever thought of money, what makes it and how it gets that way. The truth is that until Mr. Pound put the question to me I had never really thought about the subject. Since then, however, I have thought about it night and day" (from the foreword). The proof copy, printed on paperstock a notch above… Read More