Miller, Henry. TROPIC OF CANCER.

Paris: Obelisk Press, [1934]. First edition of the author's first book. 8vo. With a preface by Anais Nin. Laid into this copy is the original prospectus for the book, a single page printed on orange/pink paper, the laudatory text of which was anonymously composed by Miller himself. The prospectus contains the celebrated cover illustration for the published book, a garishly surreal image of a giant crab bearing a naked, unconscious woman in his claws. The illustration was done by the publisher Jack Kahane's young son, Maurice, who as Maurice Girodias would in the future become the publisher of the Olympia Press in Paris. The only other copy of the prospectus that we have previously encountered was present in the extensive James O'Roark collection of Henry Miller. A notably fine copy of this highspot (imperceptively tightened at the inner folds of the flap by a masterly conservator). Housed in a custom-made slipcase. Pictorial wrappers.