![]() ![]() This is the true First Edition of this title with First Published September 1934 on the copyright page Details Terms of Sale Store Description Bookseller James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA. First Black Cat edition, Fouruth printing. One of only a 1,000 copies and genuinely rare. Near fine(+) unread copy of the massmarket paperback edition minor edge-wear. The novel was subsequently banned in the UK and the USA and not released for publication for a further thirty years." - Contents: Night people - The secret life of insects - The ballad of Easy Earl - The crime of Marble Lesson. Tropic of Cancer's 1934 publication in France was hailed by Samuel Beckett as 'a momentous event in the history of modern writing'. ![]() A fictional account of Miller's adventures amongst the prostitutes and pimps, the penniless painters and writers of Montparnasse, Tropic of Cancer is an extravagant and rhapsodic hymn to a world of unrivalled eroticism and freedom. Leaving behind a disintegrating marriage and an unhappy career in America, he threw himself into the low-life of bohemian Paris with unwavering gusto. A penniless and as yet unpublished writer, Henry Miller arrived in Paris in 1930. ![]() "A stream-of-consciousness story of a poverty-stricken young American, living in Paris." - "Miller's groundbreaking first novel, banned in Britain for almost thirty years. Dark blue octavo pocket book, xxvii, 287 pages 18cm. ![]()
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