Counterculture and the 1960s
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Lot 112
Trocchi, Alexander. Cain’s Book. Grove Press, 1960. First e...
Estimate: $300 - $500
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Trocchi, Alexander. Cain?s Book. Grove Press, 1960. First edition (stated), first printing. Extremely slight shelf wear to the unclipped dust jacket. The book remains fine. A novel of heroin addiction by this beat writer. This book was the subject of a famous obscenity trial in the U. K. (the writer was Scottish). The book was declared obscene by the court, not for sexual content, but for the lifestyle (of a heroin addict) it depicts. It was published without censorship in the United States and France.
