8vo. Half-title; yellow errata slip tipped in. Original printed wrappers (some creasing, rubbing and soiling, small tape repair to upper hinge); morocco-backed slipcase. 

FIRST EDITION, second issue, with the 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). Shifreen & Jackson A21b (this copy with 78 francs price on rear free endpaper, rather than 175.00 price on rear wrapper).