MONEY AND HOW IT GETS THAT WAY TOGETHER WITH UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY - INSCRIBED TO HUNTINGTON CAIRNS

by Henry Miller

$3,750 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books · No longer available

First edition · Signed

Paris: Booster Publications, 1938. First Edition. A pair of distinguished copies inscribed to Huntington Cairns, a young Baltimore lawyer who in September 1934 was appointed official U.S. Censor by the Secretary of the Treasury. It was Cairns who declared Miller's 1934 novel Tropic of Cancer and subsequently, Black Spring, Tropic of Capricorn, and The Rosy Crucifixion obscene based on the laws of the day, despite his

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