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La Tour De Feu (Henry Miller ou Les Mauvaises Frequentations) - Numero 47, Automne 1955.
Author: [MILLER, Henry]. Publisher: (Bordeaux, France): np, 1955. First edition. Some mild toning and soiling to wrappers. Else clean and sound. Very good. Inscribed by Miller and dated on first page to poet and critic Karl Shapiro: "For / Karl Shapiro / Henry Miller / 5/31/59". Binding: Wraps. Condition: Very Good. A remarkable association. Shapiro penned the laudatory essay on Miller, "The Greatest Living Author, " in 1959 in the French literary journal Two Cities. Shapiro's essay - coming as it did from an established critic and Pulitzer-Prize-winning poet - served for many to legitimize Miller's provacative prose. Later Shapiro's essay became the introduction to Grove Press' Tropic of Cancer (1961). When the Grove Press edition led - as expected - to numerous obscenity trials, Shapiro also penned briefs in support of Miller. These legal ordeals culminated in the landmark Grove Press vs. California Supreme Court Decision of 1973 which established the so-called "Miller Test" of obscenity. An significant association from the most important obscenity ruling of the 20th Century. Quantity available: 1. Price: US$500.00 |
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