Tropic of Cancer, Black Spring. Tropic of Capricorn, Henry Miller. Published by Grove Press, New York, 1961, 1963. First American Editions. 8vo up to 9½” tall., xxxiii, 318pp., 243pp., 348pp. Tropic of Cancer is a Fifth printing; Black Spring and Tropic of Capricorn are First printings. Cloth Boards with gilt titles. Tiny inked name to free endpapers and otherwise volumes are in near fine condition and housed in very good jackets.
First published by Obelisk Press in Paris during the 1930s, these three semi-autobiographical works were initially banned in the US and the UK for obscenity before becoming landmarks of modern literature. Referred to as the “Tropic Series” or the Obelisk Trilogy.
