[pseud. KAHANE, Jack] BARR, Cecil. Bright Pink Youth. The Obelisk Press, Paris, 1934.

Price: US$1395.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition August 1934. 'Cecil Barr' was the sometime pseudonym of Jack Kahane, proprietor of the Obelisk Press, whose favorite watering hole in Paris was the bar of the Cecil Hotel. This tale recounts the marital, and extra marital, adventures of Tommy Trans-Wood and his ‘charming’ wife. This is a very good copy in wrappers illustrated by by G. Goursat. A little spotting on the wraps, but still a remarkably fresh, fine copy. The rear flap of the wrapper advertises the publisher's list including the upcoming *Tropic of Cancer*. A beautiful copy. 5½" - 7¼"

Seller: Sekkes Consultants, North Dighton, MA, U.S.A.

Miller, Henry. Tropic of Cancer. Obelisk Press, Paris, France, 1934.

Price: US$1500.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First edition. Preface by Anais Nin. Book is rebound. Book good, copyright page is missing, wear, bookplate attached to front paste-down, front and rear gutter have black tape, verso of front free end paper has previous owner's name and date, parts of pages 321-323 were repaired, verso of title page has a number stamp. Housed in custom-made slipcase.

Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.

MILLER HENRY. TROPIC OF CANCER. Obelisk, Paris, 1934.

Price: US$6093.12 + shipping

Description: (Paris: Obelisk Press 1934). First Edition. Rebound in near contemporary red cloth (with no lettering to indicate the title of the book). Ownership name in ink to both the front and rear end-papers. Original printed front and rear wrappers (featuring a giant crab holding a naked woman in its pincers, designed by Maurice J. Kahan) bound in, wrappers torn and relaid with the inner flaps pasted down. The original spine of the book is missing. Now hailed as an American classic, the author's masterpiece was banned as obscene in the United States for 27 years. One of only a 1,000 copies and genuinely rare. This is the true First Edition of this title with First Published September 1934 on the copyright page

Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United Kingdom

MILLER, Henry. NIN, Anais.. Tropic of Cancer.. The Obelisk Press, Paris, 1934.

Price: US$7500.00 + shipping

Description: Preface by Anais Nin. 323 pp. 8vo, publisher's wrappers illustrated by Maurice J. Kahane (rear wrapper detached). A dark brown stain affects the bottom 1-1/4 inch of the spine, extending to a larger (unprinted) area on the back panel; small chips at the edges of the spine, affecting the lettering at the bottom of the front panel. Old pencil ownership signature; contents otherwise clean and fine.

Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.

MILLER, Henry.. Tropic of Cancer. Preface by Anaïs Nin.. Paris: The Obelisk Press, 1934, 1934.

Price: US$35275.94 + shipping

Description: First edition, first printing, in the scarce original wrappers. The publication of Tropic of Cancer by Jack Kahane's expatriate Obelisk Press was a seminal event in 20th-century publishing, and the book became the subject of a landmark obscenity trial in the 1960s. It was later a significant influence on the Beat Generation. The majority of surviving copies of the first edition were rebound either at the time of publication or in later years. The design is by Kahane's son Maurice (later Maurice Girodias) of whom, Neil Pearson notes, "we must forgive since he was fourteen years old at the time". Neil Pearson, Obelisk: A History of Jack Kahane and the Obelisk Press, 2007. Octavo. Original wrappers lettered and decorated in blue and black. Housed in a custom black morocco slipcase and chemise. Publisher's single leaf prospectus loosely inserted. Expert repairs to spine ends and extremities, hint of rubbing to wrappers, minor marks to fore-edge, a near-fine copy.

Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom