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Item Details
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| Author: |
Miller, Henry |
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SOLD BY PRIVATE TREATYTropic of Capricorn - carbon typescript first draft |
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Paris |
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| Date: |
1934 |
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206026 |
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424 |
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97 |
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| The Library of Roger Wagner |
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03/18/2010 |
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1pm PST |
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$ 40,000 |
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$ 60,000 |
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| Description: |
| 177 pp., on pink & blue carbon paper, double-spaced, bound in quarter gilt- lettered calf & cloth; a few holograph corrections in Miller's hand. Hand-titled by Miller at front: "Tropic of Capricorn - First draft, scrapped. Begun at Clichy 1934." This page also with two rubberstamps of Henry Miller's address at 18, Villa Seurat, Paris. |
| Having written (but still revising) Tropic of Cancer and feeling more secure with himself as a writer, Miller began in 1930 to first document in book form the turbulent seven years between his first meeting with June, his second wife, and his departure for Europe in 1930. This first version differs significantly in text and tone from the final, published version of the book and demonstrates a writing style that varies from the rest of his published works. Miller's time living and writing at Clichy, rooming with Alfred Perlès and visiting with Michael Fraenkel and Anaïs Nin on a regular basis, has been described by Miller as one of the happiest of his life, whereas the time during which this autobiographical novel takes place, from the vermin-infested cellar of his Brooklyn apartment to the seedy speak-easies of the Village, was without a doubt the most turbulent and poverty-stricken time of his life. With the publication of Crazy Cock and Moloch during 1991 and 1992 by the Grove Press, this early and dramatically different first draft of Tropic of Capricorn becomes Miller's last remaining unpublished work from his most creative days in Paris. This typescript is worthy of separate publication in its own right as well as for literary and historical purposes - this carbon appears to be the only copy, the whereabouts of the original long unknown - Miller obviously went to some pains to have this carbon specially bound, at a time when money was not plentiful for him, and he would not likely have done that if he had the original to bind. |
| Condition: |
| Upper edges slightly trimmed, cutting off one holograph note on page 1 and a couple of typed lines, else very good. |
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