First Slovak edition of Henry Miller’s »Tropic of Cancer«, 1970

Beschreibung

Henry MILLER: OBRATNIK RAKA. [Tropic of Cancer]. Translated by Jozef Kot. Epilogue by Dusan Slobodnik. Cover and dust jacket designed by Ivan Kovacevic, incorporating drawings by Pablo Picasso. Bratislava: Tatran (Svornost) 1970.

8vo. 297, [7] pages. Original publisher’s cloth with black title printing on white stock, in multicolour illustrated dust jacket.

First Slovak edition of Henry Miller’s notorious novel »Tropic of Cancer«, originally published in 1934 by the Paris Obelisk Press.

The dust jacket, the frontispiece and some pages of present edition are illustrated with reproductions of drawings by Picasso.

Condition: Spine of dust jacket slightly time-stained, otherwise copy indeed.

Reference: Kormúth, Dezider: Bibliografia anglickej a americkej literatúry 1900 – 1970. Bratislava: Matica slovenská 1995, Pos. 3307.