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Opus Pistorum
by Miller, Henry [attributed to]; but possibly written by Caresse Crosby or Virginia Admiral
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0394533747
- ISBN 13
- 9780394533742
- Seller
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Henderson, Nevada, United States
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About This Item
New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1983. Fine condition in a Near Fine dust jacket (only lightly rubbed). NOT price clipped ($12.95). NO owner's name or bookplate. Sharp corners. Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. Pages are fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. 1983. First Printing with "First Hardcover Edition" so stated, and complete number row (10 987654321) on the copyright page. Published 3 years after Miller's death in 1980. Epilogue by Milton Luboviski says only 5 copies of the original 1942 edition were produced (a typescript and 4 carbon copies). Bound in the original black boards with a black cloth spine stamped in bright gold. From the dust jacket: "The Grove Press publication of OPUS PISTORUM brings this recently rediscovered work into print for the first time. Miller wrote OPUS PISTORUM - which translates from the Latin as 'work of the miller' - in 1941 for a Los Angeles bookseller who paid him a dollar a page... We are swept up in his odyssey... Along the way his profoundly original ideas about art, love, and life shine through like jewels." OPUS PISTORUM is said to be an autobiographical account of Miller's erotic adventures in France, where he visited in 1928, and lived from 1930-1939. However the standard bibliography of Miller (by Shifreen & Jackson) says it was not written by him. According to an essay by Roger Jackson in that bibliography (p. 937), Miller formally denied authorship of OPUS PISTORUM on several occasions. The actual authorship is surrounded by mystery, but Caresse Crosby and Virginia Admiral are among the candidates. Anais Nin may have played a role in the sale of the typescript. Shifreen & Jackson A240a.. 1st printing of 1st hardcove edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. Illus. by Morance, Peter (jacket design). 8vo. 288pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020238
- Title
- Opus Pistorum
- Author
- Miller, Henry [attributed to]; but possibly written by Caresse Crosby or Virginia Admiral
- Illustrator
- Morance, Peter (jacket design)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine condition
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- 1st printing of 1st hardcove edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394533747
- ISBN 13
- 9780394533742
- Publisher
- Grove Press, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1983
- Size
- 8vo. 288pp
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography;
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