![]() ![]() Two exceptionally bright copies of these important works of twentieth-century literature. ![]() In 1964, the US Supreme Court finally declared these works non-obscene. When the 1961 Grove Press edition of Tropic of Cancer was released, it led to the obscenity trials that reviewed American laws of pornography. The United States Justice Department banned the original editions of both Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn. These two works of literature were extremely controversial when first published in the United States in the 1930s, due to their candid depictions and descriptions of sex and sexuality. The first UK editions of these works, enclosed in their original bright dust wrappers. ![]() Written by American author Henry Miller, these two works are semi-autobiographical and narrate the author's early writing career, but also include fictive and free-form elements. His books include Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, the Rosy Crucifixion trilogy (Sexus, Plexus, and Nexus), Black Spring, and Crazy Cock. ![]() Two important works of twentieth-century literature, Tropic of Cancer (1963) and Tropic of Capricorn (1964). First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper ![]()
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