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Lot 169

Sale 1262 - Summer Reading: 20th Century Literature and Biography from a Private Collection
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MILLER, Henry (1891-1980). The Rosy Crucifixion: Sexus/Nexus/Plexus. New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1965.

3 volumes, 8vo. Original cloth; publisher’s dust jackets (toning, chipping along extremities); slipcase. 

FIRST AMERICAN EDITIONS. The three books in The Rosy Crucifixion trilogy were initially banned as obscene in the United States, along with Miller’s Tropic of Cancer; these bans were overturned in the 1964 Supreme Court case Grove Press v. Gerstein, and all four books were published for the first time in the United States by Grove Press the following year.

[With]: MILLER. Black Spring. London: John Calder, 1965. 8vo. Original cloth (slight rubbing to spine); publisher’s dust jacket (closed tears, chipping along extremities, tape repairs). FIRST BRITISH EDITION. -- MILLER. Nexus. New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1965. 8vo. Original cloth. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.

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