Miller, Henry

Nexus (The Rosy Crucifixion, Book Three)

New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1965. First American Edition. Hardcover. "This is the last book of the trilogy called The Rosy Crucifixion, of which the first two are Sexus and Plexus. In these three novels Henry Miller fictionalizes the seven years of his "crucifixion" before he left this country for France. His first wife, his second marriage to the great love of his life, his struggles to make a living and to become a writer, his strange assortment of friends and stranger adventures form the substance of the narrative. In this trilogy, Miller is working at the height of his mature powers, bringing fresh insight and a more intense vision to the effort to picture "the whole man" that he began in Tropic of Cancer. Looking back, he sees himself in conflict with his own complex being. A "roving desperado," a searcher after not just sex but love as well, an avid and boisterous pursuer of life's experiences, Henry Miller is for us a prism through which we may view, obliquely, the society which fostered him." (from front & rear flaps) The final, third volume in the epic personal-mythological trilogy by Henry Miller (1891-1980), the great American writer & artist whose earlier works were an influential precedent for the Beat Generation, especially its Founding Father Jack Kerouac. Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket, first American edition preceded by a French edition five years earlier (1960), first printing as stated on copyright page. A production of Barney Rosset's fearless Grove Press imprint, a champion of authors as daring as they were brilliant, including Miller & William S. Burroughs. Grove's triumphs against the censoring or confiscation of its previous Miller productions as if they were "obscene" as of the previous year (1964) paved the way for the free availability of later works including this trilogy. A classic collectible in the Miller canon. Book in near-fine condition with moderate rubbing & spotting to black-cloth front, back covers & spine (with no substantial effect on gilt facsimile signature on front cover or gilt letters on spine); very light wear & moderate fading at thin edges & corners of same; moderate rubbing & spotting to upper edge of text block; much less to side & lower edges of same. Interior very fine with only mild browning & occasional spotting to blank paste-downs & endpapers; tiny bumps at upper corners of a few page leaves. Dust jacket fine with mild rubbing & scratching to front, back covers & spine; mild wear & some tiny bumps, creases at edges & corners of same & flaps; one thin horizontal crease across upper width of rear flap, through edge & slightly onto back cover (so neat we believe it might very well be a minor flaw as issued). Near Fine / Fine. [Item #4552]

Price: $90.00