MILLER, Henry. Tropic of Capricorn. London: John Calder. 1964. 8vo. First British edition, first printing. Publisher’s red cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket with the publisher’s list of other titles to verso. A very good copy. The boards clean, bright and sharp, the binding tight and square, the contents generally fine, with some mild marks to the textblock edges and endpapers. The dust jacket unclipped (25s net), gently rubbed and nicked to spine tips and corners with some creases, but still a presentable enough copy.
A semi-autobiographical prequel-of-sorts to his lauded Tropic of Cancer which deals with his earlier American experiences but was written subsequently and first published in 1939 by The Obelisk Press. It is here ‘we see Miller in his prime, living and working, delightfully at odds with the American civilisation that bred him, continually in revolt against his environment but nevertheless very much a part of it’ (blurb).
MILLER, Henry. Tropic of Capricorn. London: John Calder. 1964. 8vo. First British edition, first printing. Publisher’s red cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket with the publisher’s list of other titles to verso. A very good copy. The boards clean, bright and sharp, the binding tight and square, the contents generally fine, with some mild marks to the textblock edges and endpapers. The dust jacket unclipped (25s net), gently rubbed and nicked to spine tips and corners with some creases, but still a presentable enough copy.
A semi-autobiographical prequel-of-sorts to his lauded Tropic of Cancer which deals with his earlier American experiences but was written subsequently and first published in 1939 by The Obelisk Press. It is here ‘we see Miller in his prime, living and working, delightfully at odds with the American civilisation that bred him, continually in revolt against his environment but nevertheless very much a part of it’ (blurb).
