Lot 239
  • 239

Miller, Henry

Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 USD
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Description

  • Tropic of Cancer. New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1961
  • paper, ink
8vo. Cloth-backed brown marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine, number 79 of 100 copies signed by the author on the limitation page. Extremities a bit rubbed. 

Literature

Shifreen & Jackson A9rr

Catalogue Note

THE SIGNED, LIMITED EDITION of Miller's controversial work of autobiographical fiction. This edition was distributed privately and available commercially. Tropic of Cancer was originally published in Paris in 1934 by the Obelisk Press, but had been banned in the United States for 27 years until the Grove Press's trade edition in 1961.