ORIGINAL SIGNED LITHO "BLUE FACE" by HENRY MILLER NR. Start Price USD 1,500.00 Current Price USD 1,500.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Monday, May 12, 2008 End Time Monday, May 19, 2008 Location Columbus, Ohio See more about 'ORIGINAL SIGNED LITHO "BLUE FACE" by HENRY MILLER NR.' Description ORIGINAL SIGNED LITHO "BLUE FACE" by HENRY MILLER NR. Here for auction is a original litho, pencil signed BY Henry Miller and numbered [38/65]  entitled BLUE FACE by the great literary and artistic genius Henry Miller 1891 -1980 [see partial Wikpedia bio below.  This litho was purchased from book dealer in 1975 and is still in it's original frame from that time.    Technical: Image measures 18 3/4" x 13" with the framed size being 24" x 18" And is printed on a heavy wove printing paper.I have not opened the frame to see how it was mounted and there is some age toning so it should probably be re matted at some point in the future.Condition from what I can see is quite good with no visual defects.IMPORTANT NOTE ON VALUE Both of the Henry Millers I have listed in this auction are currently for sale on the web at a sales site by Henry Miller's daughter Valentine Miller at HTTP//.henrymiller.info/gallery/henrymiller.php or Google- Henry Miller: Gallery. Price on the site for tis edition is listed at $15000.00 dollars and is offered here for a fraction of the price with no reserve! Terms;Postage, insurance and confirmation number by priority mail is 15.00. within the U.S.A. International orders please contact me before auction end for postage price quote. Personal checks only are accepted with the exception of Bank of America checks which can not be verified before cashing.Check must clear the bank before shipping. I guarantee that items sold through eBay are in the condition described in the listing. Items may be returned for purchase price less shipping and insurance costs  within 5 business days after arrival for reasons of authenticity or material inaccuracies. I contact the winning bidder within 3 business days after the close of the auction.Henry MillerFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, searchFor the kickboxer, see Rich Osborn. Henry Miller photo taken by Carl Van Vechten, 1940For other persons named Henry Miller, see Henry Miller (disambiguation).Henry Valentine Miller (December 26, 1891 – June 7, 1980), was an American writer and painter. He is known for breaking with existing literary forms and developing a new sort of "novel" that is a mixture of novel, autobiography, social criticism, philosophical reflection, surrealist free association, and mysticism, one that is distinctly always about and expressive of the real-life Henry Miller and yet is also fictional. His most characteristic works of this kind are Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, and Black Spring. He also wrote travel memoirs and essays of literary criticism and analysis. [edit] BiographyMiller was born to tailor Heinrich Miller and Louise Marie Neiting, in the Yorkville section of Manhattan, New York City, of German Catholic heritage. As a child he lived at 662 Driggs Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. As a young man, he was active with the Socialist Party (his "quondam idol" was the Black Socialist Hubert Harrison), he tried a variety of jobs and briefly attended the City College of New York. In both 1928 and 1929, he spent several months in Paris with his second wife, June Edith Smith (June Miller). He moved to Paris the next year unaccompanied, where he lived until the outbreak of World War II. He lived an impecunious lifestyle that depended on the benevolence of friends, such as Anaïs Nin, who became his lover and financed the first printing of Tropic of Cancer in 1934.[1]In the fall of 1931, Miller got a job with the Chicago Tribune (Paris edition) as a proofreader, thanks to his friend Alfred Perlès who worked there. Miller took the opportunity to submit some of his articles under Perlès name, since only the editorial staff were permitted to publish in the paper in 1934. This period in Paris was highly creative for Miller, and during this time he also established a significant and influential network of authors circulating around the Villa Seurat.[2]His works contain detailed accounts of sexual experiences, and his books did much to free the discussion of sexual subjects in American writing from both legal and social restrictions. He continued to write novels that were banned in the United States on grounds of obscenity. Along with Tropic of Cancer, his Black Spring (1936), and Tropic of Capricorn (1939), were smuggled into his native country, building Miller an underground reputation. One of the first acknowledgments of Henry Miller as a major modern writer was by George Orwell in his 1940 essay Inside the Whale, where he wrote:“ Here in my opinion is the only imaginative prose-writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past. Even if that is objected to as an overstatement, it will probably be admitted that Miller is a writer out of the ordinary, worth more than a single glance; and after all, he is a completely negative, unconstructive, amoral writer, a mere Jonah, a passive acceptor of evil, a sort of Whitman among the corpses. ” [3]In 1940, he returned to the United States, settling in Big Sur, California, and continued to produce his vividly written works that challenged contemporary American cultural values and moral attitudes. He spent the last years of his life in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California.While Miller was establishing his base in Big Sur, The tropics books, still banned in the USA, were being published in France. There they were acquiring a slow and steady notoriety amongst both the Europeans and the various enclaves of American cultural exiles. As a result, the books were being frequently smuggled into the states, where they would prove to be a major influence on the new Beat generation of American writers (most notably Jack Kerouac) some of which would adopt many stylistic and thematic principles found in Miller's oeuvre.The publication of Miller's Tropic of Cancer in the United States in 1961 led to a series of obscenity trials that tested American laws on pornography. The U.S. Supreme Court, in Grove Press, Inc., v. Gerstein, citing Jacobellis v. Ohio (which was decided the same day in 1964), overruled the state court findings of obscenity and declared the book a work of literature; it was one of the notable events in what has come to be known as the sexual revolution. Elmer Gertz, the lawyer who successfully argued the initial case for the novel's publication in Illinois, became a lifelong friend of Miller's. Volumes of their correspondence have been published.[4]In addition to his literary abilities, Miller was a painter and wrote books about his painting. He was a close friend of the French painter Grégoire Michonze. He was also an amateur pianist.Before his death, Miller filmed with Warren Beatty for his film Reds. He spoke of his remembrances of John Reed and Louise Bryant as part of a series of cameos or witnesses. The film was released a year and a half after Miller's death.Miller died in Pacific Palisades. After his death, he was cremated and his ashes scattered off Big Sur.Miller's papers were donated to the UCLA Young Research Library Department of Special Collections. The Henry Miller Art Museum at Coast Gallery in Big Sur, the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin, and UCLA all hold a selection of Miller's watercolors, as did The Henry Miller Museum of Art in Omachi City in Nagano, Japan, before closing in 2003. A portion of the correspondences between the Grove Press and Henry Miller are currently housed in the Special Collections Research Center at Syracuse University. Special Collections at the University of Victoria holds a significant collection of Miller's manuscripts and correspondences, including the corrected typescript for Max and Quiet Days in Clichy, as well as Miller's lengthy correspondence with Alfred Perlès.[ Place a Bid!