Tropic of Cancer
New York: Castle Books, 1961. Introd. Karl Shapiro. First printing thus, published by arrangement with Grove Press. Octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, pp xxx, 318. Near-fine condition in very good dustjacket, protected.
"Tropic of Cancer", first published in 1934, was Henry Miller's first published novel. It was banned in the United States on the grounds of obscenity; it was first published in the US by Grove Press in 1961. In the UK (where copies had to be smuggled in), George Orwell wrote: "I earnestly counsel anyone who has not done so to read at least Tropic of Cancer. With a little ingenuity, or by paying a little over the published price, you can get hold of it, and even if parts of it disgust you, it will stick in your memory. ... Here in my opinion is the only imaginative prose-writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past." Despite its controversy "Tropic of Cancer" was admired by many writers and critics and is considered an important work of twentieth-century literature. Item #106864
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