MILLER, Henry.

£1,950 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Tropic of Capricorn. First edition, first printing, first issue, with the price of 60 francs printed on the spine and the errata slip tipped onto the title page.The novel, initially scheduled for February 1939, was delayed until 10 May 1939, "as a result of which few copies were sold before the beginning of the war, the death of Kahane, and the shutting down of the Obelisk Press" (Pearson). It was banned in America until the 1961 trial that saw Tropic of Cancer declared non-obscene. This watershed moment in 20th-century publishing was instrumental in ushering in the liberal social attitudes of the Sixties.

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