TROPIC OF CAPRICORN - INSCRIBED IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION
Paris: The Obelisk Press, 1939. First Edition. Item #8321
First Issue, with price of 60 FRS on spine and publisher's errata slip tipped in before title page – one of 1,000 copies. Octavo (19.5cm); pictorial card wrappers with French flaps, printed in red and black; [10],11-367,[2]pp. Inscribed by Miller on the front endpaper in a contemporary hand: "To Miola and Annie / from / Henry Miller / with best of greetings / Paris / 5/25/39." Light wear to extremities, some creasing to lower edge of front wrapper, base of spine internally strengthened, small closed tears to upper and lower front joint, with some dust-soil to rear wrapper and a dampstain to left edge of same; Very Good and sound. Housed in a custom, velvet-lined half morocco clamshell case.
Miller's semi-autobiographical follow-up to his 1934 novel Tropic of Cancer. His early books with contemporary inscriptions are uncommon in commerce. Shifreen & Jackson A21.a.
Price: $3,850.00