By changing the areas of the plate that are exposed and the length of time the plate is submerged in the acid bath, the engraver can obtain fine and varying shades of gray that closely resemble watercolor washes. Aquatint Copperplate process by which the plate is “bitten” by exposure to acid.Text generally fresh with single tiny closed margin tear (283), light edge-wear, soiling to fragile original wrappers, less than usually found. With errata slip, often not found, tipped to title page. With first issue price of 60 francs printed on the spine, front and rear flaps marked over stamped price of 78 francs on rear free endpaper. “Although his two most important works, Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, were published in Paris in the 1930s, because of their heavy sexual content, they were not published in the United States until the early 1960s, when Miller’s work became the leading battlefield in the war over ‘pornographic’ literature” (Hoffman, 108). Once hailed by Norman Mailer as “the last great American pioneer,” Miller sparked much controversy over the novel’s explicit descriptions of sexual encounters. Tropic of Capricorn, with its focus on on Henry Miller’s Brooklyn youth, concludes his famed autobiographical trilogy-following Tropic of Cancer (1934) and Black Spring (1936). Housed in a custom clamshell box.įirst edition of Henry Miller’s controversial final novel in his landmark trilogy, in original wrappers. Octavo, original red and white stiff paper wrappers, uncut. “I BELIEVE ALL YOUR LIES IMPLICITLY”: FIRST EDITION OF THE FINAL VOLUME IN HENRY MILLER’S AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL TRILOGY, TROPIC OF CAPRICORN

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