Tropic of Cancer by MILLER, Henry - 1963 and 1964: [With:] MILLER, Henry. Tropic of Capricorn.

Two vols 8vo, pp. [4], 318; and pp. 316; fine copies, Cancer in a
fine dust-jacket; Capricorn in a good jacket, spine sunned, a fewsmall tears to edges.


First UK editions of both books.

Laid in loose is a rare piece of ephemera, comprising articles
written by Miller for the LA Times ('Why I wrote "Tropic ofCancer"') and by John Ciardi for the Saturday Review in 1963,
'Reprinted by the Henry Miller Literary Society, Minneapolis'. Atthe end Miller has annotated it with the comment 'I wrote this,
not for a newspaper, but for our U.S. Supreme court to read. Wepetitioned them to take the case. HM.' Although first published
in Paris in 1934, Tropic of Cancer's republication by the GrovePress in 1961 led to numerous obscenity trials in US state courts,
until the Supreme Court finally ruled it was not obscene in 1964.