Item #140942590 Tropic of Cancer. Henry Miller, Karl Shapiro, Introduction.
Tropic of Cancer
Tropic of Cancer
Tropic of Cancer
Tropic of Cancer
Tropic of Cancer
Tropic of Cancer
Tropic of Cancer

Tropic of Cancer

New York: Grove Press, 1961.

First American edition, signed limited issue. One of only 100 unnumbered hors commerce copies specially bound and signed by Henry Miller. Bound in original marbled boards over brown spine cloth, titled in gilt. Near Fine with rubbing to edges heaviest at corners, former owner rubber stamp to front paste down.

The famous novel with a multiple decades-long journey through the courts in different countries. This Grove first American edition triggered a landmark obscenity case that ended in 1964 with it being officially declared "not obscene." Item #140942590

Price: $3,800.00

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