Miller, Henry - Tropic of Capricorn

The Obelisk Press/Les Editions Du Chene, Paris, 1952. Reprint, Hardcover (Half Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. green cloth spine & corners over pattern printed boards. Tropic of Capricorn is a semi-autobiographical novel by Henry Miller, first published by Obelisk Press in Paris in 1939. A prequel of sorts to Miller's first published novel, 1934's Tropic of Cancer. The novel covers Miller's growing inability and outright refusal to accommodate what he sees as America's hostile environment. It is autobiographical but not chronological, jumping between Miller's adolescent adventures in Brooklyn in the 1900s, recollections of his first love Una Gifford, a love affair with his nearly-30-year-old piano teacher when he was 15, his unhappy marriage to his first wife Beatrice, his years working at Western Union (called The Cosmodemonic Telegraph Company in the book) in Manhattan in the 1920s, and his fateful meeting with his second wife June (known in the book as Mara), who he credits with changing his life and making him into a writer. It was banned in the United States until a 1961 Justice Department ruling declared that its contents were not obscene. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 362 pages. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact, some fading to spine colour. Pages browned with age. Previous owner's inscription in ink, neat, to fep.. Black titles spine. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Fiction; Novel; American Literature; Biography & Autobiography; United States; 1900-1920; Literature & Literary. Dewey Code: 577.630941. Inventory No: 4501.

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