Genesis Two

L.P. Davies

Doubleday and Co

Dust jacket notes: "A new book by Henry Miller is a rare and important literary event. INSOMNIA differs from all his other works. It is a love story. Always a romantic at heart, Henry Miller fell passionately, completely, but not hopelessly, in love at the age of 75. The object of his affection was a lovely and talented 25 year old singer, Hoki Tokuda, from Japan. Hoki spoke some English; Miller spoke no Japanese. Hoki was a featured singer in a piano bar in Hollywood. Henry was a semi-retired, divorced, lonely, literary giant. He pursued her for a year. Out of the frustration of sleepless nights, out of a clear vision of himself as an aging romantic, out of his compulsion to court and marry this 'young nightingale,' Miller has fashioned a deeply moving, revealing romance. With fantasies of Hoki impinging on his restless mind, Miller wrote this love story - and turned a part of his sleepless nights into a series of 12 watercolor paintings that are shown in full color in this unique volume. The text has been faithfully reproduced in Henry Miller's own handwriting - just as he wrote it. The plates for the watercolors were made in Italy and printed on a facsimile watercolor weave paper. Henry Miller has long been recognized as one of the world's most influential writers. He has been called the prime mover of today's sexual revolution. This volume reveals him as a writer of romantic insight with an acute sense of human frailty. But, more than anything else, it proves that Henry Miller is one of the great storytellers of all time. He has written a love story that is a testament to an international understanding of the nature of love. It is also a revelation of the youthfulness of Miller's mind. Miller's belief in love as an integral component of longevity and happiness is expressed both in the sensitive text and the spirited watercolors."

Insomnia Or the Devil at Large

MILLER, HENRY

Oblong Octavo, 1973, Unpaginated, Wimsical Plant Illustrations and Names

The Floriculturist's Vade-Mecum of Exotic and Recondite Plants, Shrubs and Grasses, and One Malignant Parasite

Van Rooten, Luis dantin

Here, in a completely revised and updated edition of the popular and widely consulted guide to private flying, ABC science commentator Jules Bergman has written a down-to-earth introduction to this lofty and often intimidating but always exciting sport. Unlike other books in this field, Anyone Can Fly focuses not so much on the aircraft as on the actual aerial maneuvers themselves which are an invaluable part of understanding the art and science of flying.

Anyone Can Fly

History

Bergman, Jules

Americas

Hardcover: 224 pages Publisher: Doubleday & Company (1972)

Homemade Ice Cream and Cake

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Cooking by Ingredient

"He was precocious, alert, intelligent, brash, challenging, irreverent, literary, self-conscious, insecure, often ostentatiously crude, sometimes insufferable," Wallace Stegner says of Bernard DeVoto, who, in the words of a childhood acquaintance, was also "the ugliest, most disagreeable boy you ever saw." Between the disagreeable boy and the literary lion, a life unfolds, full of comedy and drama, as told in this definitive biography, which brings together two exemplary American men of letters. Born within a dozen years of one another in small towns in Utah, both men were, as Stegner writes, "novelists by intention, teachers by necessity, and historians by the sheer compulsion of the region that shaped us." From this unique vantage point, Stegner follows DeVoto's path from his beloved but not particularly congenial Utah to the even less congenial Harvard where, galvanized by the disregard of the aesthetes around him, he commenced a career that, over three and a half decades, would embrace nearly every sort of literary enterprise: from modestly successful novels to prize-winning Western histories, from the editorship of the Saturday Review to a famously combative, long-running monthly column in Harper's, "The Easy Chair." A nuanced portrait of a stormy literary life, Stegner's biography of DeVoto is also a window on the tumultuous world of American letters in the twentieth century.

The uneasy chair;: A biography of Bernard DeVoto

Biographies & Memoirs

Stegner, Wallace

Arts & Literature

HARDCOVER w/DUST JACKET &amp; SLIP CASE

Abraham Lincoln, his story in his own words

Lincoln, Abraham

The Crosby : Greatest Show in Golf

The Crosby : Greatest Show in Golf

NETLAND, Dwayne, with a prologue by Bing Crosby

They Had Strange Powers

Wilson,Colin

Halter-Broke

Halter-broke

Literature & Fiction

Reese, John

Genre Fiction

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