Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch

by Miller, Henry

$1,200 · Offered by Biblio

First edition · Signed · In dust jacket

New York: New Directions, 1957. First Edition. Very Good+/Very Good. Inscribed by Henry Miller to Monterey attorney and good friend of John Steinbeck Webster "Toby" Street, signed and dated 8/19/58. First edition. (Distinguished from later printings by lack of printing statement on jacket flap. Shifreen & Jackson A105a.) (xii), 404 pp. Original orange cloth lettered in black. Very Good+ with sunned spine cloth in Very Good worn and edge-rubbed dust jacket, small tear in front panel top edge, price intact. An autobiographical account of living in the Big Sur area by the taboo-busting American author.

  • Publisher: New Directions
  • Year: 1957
  • Edition: First Edition
  • Printing: later
  • Binding: unknown

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