8vo. Original cloth (rubbing). Provenance: June Mansfield Miller (1902-1979), second wife of Henry Miller and the inspiration for characters in works by Miller and Anais Nin (bookseller's notation).

LIMITED EDITION, number 73 of 100 copies, SIGNED BY MILLER. Tropic of Cancer was initially published by in 1934 by the Obelisk Press of Paris, and was immediately banned from import or publication in the United States. Grove Press opted to publish in 1961, and their edition saw numerous challenges throughout the U.S.; a Pennsylvania Supreme Court judge wrote that Tropic of Cancer was "a cesspool, an open sewer...a slimy gathering of all that is rotten in the debris of human depravity." Shifreen & Jackson, A9rr.

[With]: MILLER. Tropic of Capricorn. Paris: The Obelisk Press, 1939. 8vo. Half-title with yellow errata slip. Original printed wrappers (some creasing, spotting to rear cover, rubbing). FIRST EDITION, second issue. Shifreen & Jackson, A21b. -- RIMBAUD, Arthur (1854-1891). Illuminations. Brockport, NY: Boa Editions, 1979. 8vo. Lithograph by Henry Miller. Original cloth; publisher's dust jacket. FIRST EDITION.