A175a 1970 FIRST LOUJON "A" EDITION
White 14-ply art pebble board cover. Orange, gold, yellow and black foil dust jacket.
Portfolio Case: A specially made wooden box with slide out wooden cover with a 12 x 18 inch photograph of Henry and Hoki Miller glued to the top. Gold name plate. 12 prints, all signed and inscribed to buyer. Original watercolor inscribed to buyer.
Published in October 1970, at $1200.00, as edition "A" limited to 12 copies.
Note: Only four or five copies of this Edition were made.
Insomnia was named Best Book of the Year for 1970, by the Library Journal.
A175b 1970 FIRST LOUJON "B" EDITION
White 14-ply art pebble board cover. Red on gold foil dust jacket.
Portfolio Case: A specially made wooden box with slide out wooden cover with a 12 x 18 inch photograph of Henry and Hoki Miller glued to the top. Gold name plate. 12 prints, all signed and inscribed to buyer.
Publication price was $500, with an edition of of 26 copies planned.
A175c 1970 FIRST LOUJON "C" EDITION
White 14-ply art pebble board cover. Red on gold foil dust jacket.
Portfolio Case: A specially made wooden box with slide out wooden cover with a 12 x 18 inch photograph of Henry and Hoki Miller glued to the top. Gold name plate. 12 prints; all signed.
Published at $295, in a planned edition of 192 copies, but later reduced to 39 due to slow pre-publication sales.
Note: It is believed that less than 10 copies of this edition were actually published.
A175d 1970 FIRST LOUJON "D" EDITION
White 14-ply art pebble board cover. Blue on silver foil dust jacket (book not signed).
Portfolio Case: A specially made wooden box with slide out wooden cover with a 12 x 18 inch photograph of Henry and Hoki Miller glued to the top. Sterling silver name plate. 12 prints; 9 signed.
Published at $225, in a planned edition of 192 copies, but later reduced to 59 due to slow pre-publication sales.
Note: It is believed that no more than 10 copies of this edition were actually published.
A175e 1970 FIRST LOUJON "E" EDITION
White 14-ply art pebble board cover. Blue on silver foil dust jacket (book not signed).
Portfolio Case: A specially made wooden box with slide out wooden cover with a 12 x 18 inch photograph of Henry and Hoki. Sterling silver name plate. 12 prints; 6 signed.
Published at $165, in a planned edition of 192 copies, but later reduced to 79 due to slow pre-publication sales.
Note: It is believed that no more than 10 copies of this edition were actually published.
A175f 1970 FIRST LOUJON "F" EDITION
White 14-ply art pebble board cover. Blue on silver foil dust jacket (book not signed).
Portfolio Case: A specially made wooden box with slide out wooden cover with a 12 x 18 inch photograph of Henry and Hoki Miller glued to the top. Copper name plate. 12 prints; 3 signed.
Published at $110, in a planned edition of 192 copies, but later reduced to 99 copies due to slow pre-publication sales.
Note: It is believed that no more than 35 copies of this edition were actually published.
A175g 1970 FIRST LOUJON "G" EDITION
White 14-ply art pebble board cover. Blue on silver foil dust jacket (book signed)
Portfolio Case: A specially made wooden box with slide out wooden cover with a 12 x 18 inch photograph of Henry and Hoki Miller glued to the top. Brass name plate. 12 prints; none signed.
Published at $60, in a planned edition of 192 copies, but later increased to 385 when sales of the more limited editions of this title were lagging.
Note: Because only 300 of the handcrafted storage cases were built before Jon Webb.s death, approximately 200 only would remain after completion of the limited editions mentioned previously.
A175h 1970 FIRST LOUJON ECONOMY EDITION
White 14-ply art pebble board cover. Blue on silver foil dust jacket (some books signed).
No Portfolio case, 12 prints.
A175i 1971 SECOND LOUJON EDITION
White 14-ply art pebble board with dust jacket in orange, gold, yellow and black foil.
Publisher's box covered in bright orange cloth. 12 prints plus a limited signed lithography by Paul Giovanopopulos.
Published in Summer 1971, in an edition of 20 copies.
Note: Colophon is a holograph message written on a photocopy of Jon Webb's obituary as it appeared in a New Orleans, Louisiana newspaper on Friday, June 11, 1971. The colophon reads: "Because of the enclosed writeup, I need money for a memorial, full page ad to run in the Village Voice for Jon, and this set is one of the 20 copies of "Insomnia" we set aside for ourselves. -- Mrs. Jon E. Webb."
A175j 1974 FIRST DOUBLEDAY LIMITED EDITION
Black Moroccan leather. Blue-black monks cloth slip case.
Published in 1974, at $100.00, in an edition of 150 copies, 100 in English, 50 in French.
Note: Though the book itself is not signed, the limited edition lithograph which is laid in at the front of the book is. The 125 word statement by Miller on love is a holograph facsimile printed on light blue paper (11 x 6 inches) and has been bound into the front of the book, creating two additional preliminary pages. The limitation page is printed on a light gold paper (11 x 4 3/4 inches) creating another two pages not found in the trade edition.
A175k 1974 FIRST DOUBLEDAY TRADE EDITION
Black cloth boards. Black dust jacket
Published in 1974, at $10.00.
A175l 1975 FUMINSHÔ ARUIWA TOBIHANERU AKUMA
FIRST YOMIURI SHIMBUN-SHA EDITION
Black leather boards. No dust jacket.
Published on May 20, 1975, at ¥5000.
Note: This Bi-lingual edition of Insomnia or the Devil at Large includes the sheets from the 1974 Doubleday edition with additional pages added for the Japanese text. While the English text of Insomnia or the Devil at Large is included, the "Cadenza" is not, and appears in Japanese only. A photograph of Henry Miller which appears on page 85 of this edition is not included in the 1974 Doubleday edition, nor the essay by Junnosuke Yoshiyuki.
A175m 1977 INSOMNIA ODER DIE SCHÖNEN TORHEITEN DES ALTERS
FIRST ROWOHLT EDITION
Orange, white and blue illustrated wrappers with detail of watercolor by Henry Miller
Printed in July 1977.
Note: The English and German text are printed on alternating pages. The English text follows the holograph form as it appeared in the 1974 Doubleday edition.
A175n 1991 UYKUSUZLUK
FIRST BÜYÜLÜDAG EDITION
Tan wrappers
Published in 1991.
Note: The English and Turkish text are printed on alternating pages with only the Turkish pages numbered [1-33]. The cadenza appears on pp. 34-43 and is in Turkish only.
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