Miller, Henry. Topic of Cancer. Grove Press,, New York:, 1961.

Price: US$2100.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: No. 33 of 100 copies SIGNED BY HENRY MILLER on the limitation page. Millers sprawling masterpiece was launched by the Obelisk Press, a French publisher of soft pornography as Tropic of Cancer, with a cover by Maurice Girodias, who would later become famous as the leading French publisher of erotic literature. Wrapped in an explicit warning ("Not to be imported into Great Britain or USA"), it set a new gold standard for graphic language and explicit sexuality. From the outset, Millers "barbaric yawp" shook US censorship and inflamed American literary sensibility to its core. Tropic would remain banned for a generation, by which time it had become part of postwar cultural folklore, smuggled into the US wrapped in scarves and underwear. Rarely has a book had such thrilling and desperate underground beginnings. ( The 100 Best Novels, Guardian Press). A Fine copy. Size: 8vo.

Seller: Quaker Hill Books, Redding, CT, U.S.A.