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Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller - 1961

Tropic of Cancer

by Henry Miller

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VERY GOOD condition --- DUST JACKET: Wear & tear to top and bottom edges of panels, spine and folds. Chipping to top of spine, left to right.. Minor chipping to bottom of spine, left & top and bottom outside corners at folds. Price clipped. Tears mended on reverse with archival tape. In first 2 pics, paper inserts placed inside for improved appearance. BOARDS: Very good condition. Bottom outside corners scuffed. BOOK: Very good condition. Ink markings on top of FFEP and LFEP. Please inspect photos closely for condition details. If unsure, please ask.


Here on offer is a very nice copy of Henry Miller's controversial 1930s novel, Tropic of Cancer, originally banned in the United States on obscenity claims. This a true 1st American edition, 1st printing of the work published by Grove Press in 1961. The authentic dust jacket is protected from further wear by a Brodart sleeve.

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" 'Tropic of Cancer' is a novel by Henry Miller that has been described as "notorious for its candid sexuality" and as responsible for the "free speech that we now take for granted in literature." It was first published in 1934 by the Obelisk Press in Paris, France, but this edition was banned in the United States. Its publication in 1961 in the U.S. by Grove Press led to obscenity trials that tested American laws on pornography in the early 1960s. In 1964, the U.S. Supreme Court declared the book non-obscene. It is regarded as an important work of 20th-century literature."

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"Now hailed as an American classic, 'Tropic of Cancer', Henry Miller's masterpiece, was banned as obscene in this country for twenty-seven years after its first publication in Paris in 1934. Only a historic court ruling that changed American censorship standards, ushering in a new era of freedom and frankness in modern literature, permitted the publication of this first volume of Miller's famed mixture of memoir and fiction, which chronicles with unapologetic gusto the bawdy adventures of a young expatriate writer, his friends, and the characters they meet in Paris in the 1930s. 'Tropic of Cancer' is now considered, as Norman Mailer said, "one of the ten or twenty great novels of our century."

The above text was taken from Wikipedia and Grove Atlantic Publishers (via Google Books)[Miller, Henry. Tropic of Cancer. United Kingdom: Grove Atlantic, 2007.]



This handsome copy would be a worthy addendum to your 1st editions library.
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  • Jacket Condition Good+
  • Edition 1st edition
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Grove Press
  • Place of Publication USA
  • Date Published 1961
  • Keywords 1st printing

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