MILLER, Henry The Rosy Crucifixion Book One: Sexus. Paris: The Olympia Press.1957.
Small format 8vo., original green card covers, ruled and lettered in black and white; pp. [ix], 10-634, [iv]; a very good example, lightly rubbed to edges, particularly so along the spine, which has also been touched by sun; light vertical crease to rear cover; a couple of spots to
the ffep; otherwise internally clean and bright.
First edition thus, No. 39 in the Traveller’s Companion Series. Printed in June 1957 by Imp. Moderne du Lion, Paris, it was originally sold for 2.400 francs. ‘Sexus’ was originally published in 1949 by the Obelisk Press.
The first book in the ‘Rosy Crucifixion’ series. Banned in both the UK and the US for almost 20 years after the initial publication, the book tells a fictionalised story of Miller’s sexual adventures in New York following ‘my thirty-third year, the age Christ was crucified’. “A
wholly new life lay before me”, he writes, “had I the courage to risk all.”
Kearney (p. 73-4)
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