Henry Miller (1891-1980) cover of the first US edition in paperback the autobiographical novel Tropic of Capricorn; following the Tropic of Cancer; published just came out (1939); only in Paris. In the United States the book was totally censored and its publication was banned for 22 years; until in 1961 a judgment of the Department of Justice ruled that its content was not considered obscene. On the cover a shriek shows that this pocket exactly reproduces the first uncensored edition; published by Grove Press; priced at $ 7.50. Grove Press; NYC; USA 1961