Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller, First Edition (112 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Crack at top of spine covering. xxxiii, 318 pp. Black and blue clot with silver lettering. Small chip top of front cover. Near very good copy.

Condition: Fair. 1963. First Edition Thus. 318 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Pages have slight foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. Gutters somewhat cracked. Binding is firm. Foxing and tanning more noticeable towards start and end of book and on text block edges. Faint creases to some pages. Slight crease and tear to p316, not affecting text. Text block edges are a little tanned and rubbed with minor scratches. Boards have some moderate edge wear, with slight bumping to corners and minor bumping and fraying to spine ends. Boards rather rubbed and marked overall. A faint ring mark to front board. Gilt is bright. Boards are slightly bowed, with a notable forward lean.

Card Wrappers. Condition: Near Fine. First Thus. (iii), 49 + 2 (colophon & pubs. list). Card from Karl & Helene Orend announcing the birth of their daughter laid in. Covers minutely handled. Book.

Printed Wrappers. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ. 1st Edition. First Ballantine Printings, 1973, #23408 And 23409. From The Collection Of Ian Ballantine, Who Was The American Representative Of Penguin Books Prior To His Founding Of Bantam Books And Then Ballantine Books In 1952. Each Book From The Ballantine Collection Comes With A Loose Card Indicating It Is From The Library Of Ian And Betty Ballantine. Books Are Fine, No Wear Or Marks Or Creases.

Condition: Good. 1963. First Edition Thus. 318 pages. No dust jacket. Grey cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Some occasional mild cracking to gutters throughout, binding remains reasonably firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Sunning to spine and board edges. Boards are warped. Boards are bowed.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 287 pp. Blue covers, ledge wear, page ends black, spine creased. 1st Black Cat editon, 4th printing.

Paperback. 49p., frontis, introduction, photos, very good first trade edition thus paperback in black Frenchfold pictorial wraps. Originally published in 1946. Partly a refutation of Perles' dismissal of Fraenkel in his memoirs of Miller.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. Boards in red cloth, very good w/ slight damp damage, stain to cloth, yellowing of pages, some foxing to endpapers. 305p., Japanese label inside back. Pirate, Japanese, 1950s vintage of Henry Miller sizzler. Preface by Anais Nin. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Original Cloth-Backed Boards. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Trace of dampstain on lower corner of cover; outer edges a bit stained; former owner's signature deleted in ink.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good/Fine. 1st Printing. Greenleaf Classics GC210. Extremely light wear along the edges of the wraps, with a thin, light water stain/spot on the upper edge of the rear spine.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Jackson A59 a black covers with yellow printing. Very good with little wear. Photo of Nin is present.

Paperback. First edition with this publisher, but spine largely gone and the remainder of the spine rather sunned. Sides edgeworn but good, contents very good. Acceptable copy, suitable for rebinding? Please see description or ask for photos.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hardback book (318 Pages) stated first printing. Boards show light shelf wear at edge. Bookseller since 1995 (LL-Base2-Door-Bottom-L) rareviewbooks.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. First printing, stated. A first edition, but both book and dust jacket are beat. The book is unmarked; top corner of one page is torn off; some damp-staining and crinkling to pages; boards are flared; staining to bottom page edges, and the blue tint to the top page edges is heavily faded; spine ends bumped and worn at the tips. The dust jacket is not price-clipped (original price $7.50); missing two-inch-square pieces at top and middle of spine, and bottom corner of front wrap; heavily chipped and edgeworn; Brodart protected.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First Edition Third Printing. Hard cover 8vo in slate half-cloth w/silver spine titles. Very Good/No DJ. Boards scuffed and edgeworn, sporadic bracketing. 318pp. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. [Stated First Printing] Bound in publisher's black and blue cloth. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Water damage to top edge (text unaffected). xxxiii, 318 p., 21 cm. Tropic of Cancer is an autobiographical novel by Henry Miller, published in France in 1934 and, because of censorship, not published in the United States until 1961. Written in the tradition of Walt Whitman and Henry David Thoreau, it relates Miller's picaresque life as an impoverished expatriate in France in the early 1930s. The book benefited from favorable early critical response and gained popular notoriety later as a result of obscenity trials. Containing little by way of plot, Tropic of Cancer is composed of anecdotes, philosophizing, and rambling celebrations of life. Despite his poverty, Miller extols his manner of living, unfettered as it is by moral and social conventions. He lives largely off the resources of his friends. In exuberant and sometimes preposterous passages of unusual sexual frankness, he chronicles numerous encounters with women, including his own mysterious wife (in the character Mona), as he pursues his fascination with female sexuality.

Hard bound, 5th printing of the first edition, xxxiii + Pp318. Tight and unmarked - a very good or better copy in an edge-worn, slightly edge-torn dust jacket. 570 grams. We welcome all reasonable offers on our books and also offer local curbside pick-up. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Printing. Covers and protected jacket in very good shape, very slight tilt to the spine, jacket has small pieces missing at top of the spine and other edge wear, price of $7.50 intact, pages clean and unmarked. 2nd printing.

First Evergreen edition. 12mo. [xxxiii], 318 pp. Softcover binding, overall very good condition. (10822). Introduction by Karl Shapiro. Preface by Anaïs Nin.

paperback. First Edition thus, pbo. rack-size pbk, 1" thick, (B-251, $1.75) w/ movie tie-in cover; complete novel including orig 26-pg intro by Karl Shapiro & Nin preface; 318 pgs w/ over 75 photos from Paramount film. quotes by Ben Ray Redman, Harry T.Moore, John Simon & Joseph Morgenstern on back cover. near fine (-) copy: a double crease frames the spine title, but text block still tight & square; a clean, handsome copy w/o creasing or other blemishes.

Paperback. Condition: Near fine(+). Dark blue octavo pocket book, xxvii, 287 pages; 18cm. "A stream-of-consciousness story of a poverty-stricken young American, living in Paris." -- "Miller's groundbreaking first novel, banned in Britain for almost thirty years. A penniless and as yet unpublished writer, Henry Miller arrived in Paris in 1930. Leaving behind a disintegrating marriage and an unhappy career in America, he threw himself into the low-life of bohemian Paris with unwavering gusto. A fictional account of Miller's adventures amongst the prostitutes and pimps, the penniless painters and writers of Montparnasse, Tropic of Cancer is an extravagant and rhapsodic hymn to a world of unrivalled eroticism and freedom. Tropic of Cancer's 1934 publication in France was hailed by Samuel Beckett as 'a momentous event in the history of modern writing'. The novel was subsequently banned in the UK and the USA and not released for publication for a further thirty years." -- Contents: Night people -- The secret life of insects -- The ballad of Easy Earl -- The crime of Marble Lesson. Lacking DJ. Near fine(+) unread copy of the massmarket paperback edition; minor edge-wear. First Black Cat edition, Fourth printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. First printing of the 1961 Grove Press edition. A well read copy with previous owner's name in pencil on front free end-paper & two merchant marine library rubber stamps on front paste-down. Text is clean & binding is secure. Unclipped dust jacket has many chips rips, rubbing & overall wear. 318 pp.

1st edition, hardback, 318pp, page edges browned, text clean and binding sound, no inscriptions, grey cloth, gilt titles, Very Good / Fair dustwrapper; wrapper creased and frayed , torn a spine ends, not price-clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First British Edition Clean tight copy with no inscriptions. Price unclipped. Minor tape marks to wrapper and glue marks to boards. Otherwise clean tight copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A neat bright copy of the First Black Cat Edition, fourth printing - "the complete unexpurgated Grove Press edition originally published at $7.50". Plain blue illustrated wrapper, 287 pages. Light creasing, tiny edge wear, light creasing. "The literary bomb that has been contraband in the U.S. since 1937' (Minneapolis Sunday Tribune) An attractive very early copy. Listing with ABEbooks since 2003, we guarantee our book descriptions, & post the next business day with tracking notification.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Two book set. "Tropic of Cancer", tape ghost and removal damage inside covers. Dust jacket with edge wear, handling, small tears. "Tropic of Capricorn", signed by previous owner. Dust jacket missing small chips. Expedited or International shipping may cost more.

Hardcover. Condition: Used. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. First Edition Thus. Spine slightly cocked. Front and back covers are foxed. Fore-edge page block and fore-edges of many pages are foxed. Otherwise in very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: SIGNED / VG-. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. STATED FIRST PRINTING. used hardcover in mylar covered price clipped dust jacket. jacket is somewhat worn about the edges, with a number of small chips and tears at the extremeties, though still largely intact. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.

Black wraps with yellow lettering, unpaginated (8 pages), 7 5/8 x 5 1/8 inches, tipped in frontispiece photo of Anias Nin. Fine. "Tropic of Cancer was originally issued in 1934 by the Obelisk Press of Paris. It was Miller's first book, and Miss Nin's deeply perceptive preface acquires added significance, therefore, as the first published notice to be taken of his work. Through the years Miss Nin's essay has appeared in the editions issued by the Obelisk Press. The ever alert censors have succeeded, however, in holding to a minimum the number of Tropics to reach our shores; and the preface was omitted entirely (perhaps because it contained no four-letter words and could not be expected to titillate even the most prurient-minded) from the pirated Medusa edition which was produced here shortly before the war. Because it constitutes not merely an introduction to a single book, which most readers will, in any event, have no opportunity to see, but rather an exposition of the basic values and motivations of one of the important writers of our times, its republication should lead to a wider reading and a clearer appreciation of those of Miller's works which are generally available in this country." (Lawrence R. Maxwell, March 15, 1947). (3214017).