On Turning Eighty

Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1972.

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Softcover. First edition, paperbound issue (published simultaneously with a hardbound issue of 200 copies). Light offsetting to one page, one small correction in the text in an unknown hand, else just about fine in wrappers. Inscribed by the author to his second wife, June Mansfield: "For June from Henry 10/31/72 My books are getting smaller and smaller now. Soon I will shut up completely!" A wonderful association.

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ISBN: 0912264438

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Item #32732 On Turning Eighty. Henry MILLER.
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Henry Miller
birth name: Henry Valentine Miller
born: 12/26/1891
died: 6/7/1980
nationality: USA

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Biography

American writer and perennial bohemian whose autobiographical novels had a liberating influence on mid-20th century literature. Because of their sexual frankness, his major works were banned as obscene in Britain and the United States until the 1960s, but they were widely known earlier from copies smuggled in from France. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore

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Miller was very prolific, and his bibliography is huge, and seemingly ever expanding. For us though, the apex of his work seems to boil down to Tropic of Cancer (Paris, 1934) and Tropic of Capricorn (Paris, 1939). Finding copies in really fine condition can be a chore, and expensive when finally accomplished. We think his additional work deserves attention, but there sure is a lot of it!

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