Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn & Black Spring by Henry Miller [HARDCOVER BOOK CLUB SET / 1963]

Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn & Black Spring by Henry Miller

COMPLETE HENRY MILLER BOOK CLUB SET [1963] GROVE PRESS

Three beautiful leatherette hardcovers with gilded black spines, all Like New. 

Some extremely minuscule wear to covers, but nearly mint.  Inside, pages of all three books are like new and unread.   Gorgeous collection. 

Tropic of Cancer - Now hailed as an American classic Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller’s masterpiece, was banned as obscene in this country for twenty-seven years after its first publication in Paris in 1934. Only a historic court ruling that changed American censorship standards, ushering in a new era of freedom and frankness in modern literature, permitted the publication of this first volume of Miller’s famed mixture of memoir and fiction, which chronicles with unapologetic gusto the bawdy adventures of a young expatriate writer, his friends, and the characters they meet in Paris in the 1930s. 

Tropic of Capricorn - Banned in America for almost thirty years because of its explicit sexual content, this companion volume to Miller's Tropic of Cancer chronicles his life in 1920s New York City. Famous for its frank portrayal of life in Brooklyn's ethnic neighborhoods, and Miller's outrageous sexual exploits, Tropic of Capricorn is now considered a cornerstone of modern literature.

Black Spring - Continuing the subversive self-revelation begun in Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, Henry Miller takes readers along a mad, free-associating journey from the damp grime of his Brooklyn youth to the sun-splashed cafes and squalid flats of Paris. With incomparable glee, Miller shifts effortlessly from Virgil to venereal disease, from Rabelais to Roquefort. In this seductive technicolor swirl of Paris and New York, he captures like no one else the blending of people and the cities they inhabit.