Moloch or,This Gentile World
1992 (First Edition).
Grove Press
, New York, United States
Published posthumously, (the died in California in 1980), it is set in a rapidly changing New York City of the early 1920's and is often both brutal and shocking as well as occasionally awkward and rambling. Probably marking his first steps to a theme and motif that was to become his hallmark ie. the scathingly direct hero striving for an unflinchingly honest view of himself in a world created out of the writer's life. the had already become a liberating influence in mid 20th -century literature. Rare in Australia.
$55.00
Specifications
| Author | Miller Henry |
| Publisher | Grove Press |
| Place Published | New York, United States |
| Year Published | 1992 (First Edition) |
| Date of First Edition or Edition Notes |
1992 |
| Size | 8vo - Octavo, 152mm x 229mm |
| Chapters | Unspecified |
| Pages | 266pp |
Condition Report
| Cover | Hard cover in bright silver lettered magenta half cloth over matt buff boards, with a tight, sound spine with unclipped original pictorial dust wrapper featuring sepia photo to upper and Miller's portrait photo to rear both in a genuinely near fine condition, with clean crisp corners and edges, now protected in clear archival covering. |
| Overall | Text is likewise in excellent condition devoid of any inscriptions original marks of any kind. |