The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder

The Hague: L.J.C. Boucher, (1948).

Price: $125.00

Hardcover. First Dutch edition. Near fine with the board edges and spine lightly sunned, lacking the dustwrapper. The text of this edition is in English, although the volume was offered for sale in Holland only; this particular copy belonged to Helen Ivy, wife of noted scholar James W. Ivy (editor of *The Crisis*, the magazine of the NAACP), and has her name inscribed on the front pastedown.

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Item #68495 The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder. Henry MILLER.

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

Collecting tips:

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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