1. "The Rosy Crucifixion: Book one Sexus" by Henry Miller - The Obelisk Press, Paris - 1950 This edition of Sexus corresponds to no. A76d in the Shifreen/Jackson Henry Miller: A Bibliography of Primary Printed Sources (1993), where it is described as the 'Second edition/Paperback Issue/First Combined Edition/Second Obelisk Press Edition.' To clarify this, the first Obelisk Press edition was published in 1949 in two volumes in an edition of 3000 copies. This was reprinted in July 1950 in two one-volume issues, one on cloth and the other, the one offered here, in wrappers - 14cmx12cm - condition: original wrappers with some wear 2. "Nexus: Volume I" by Henry Miller - The Obelisk Press, Paris - 1960 edition - 14cmx12cm - condition: original wrappers with some wear The Rosy Crucifixion, a trilogy consisting of Sexus, Plexus, and Nexus, is a fictionalized account documenting the six-year period of Henry Miller's life in Brooklyn as he falls for his second wife June and struggles to become a writer, leading up to his initial departure for Paris in 1928. The title comes from a sentence near the end of Miller's Tropic of Capricorn: "All my Calvaries were rosy crucifixions, pseudo-tragedies to keep the fires of hell burning brightly for the real sinners who are in danger of being forgotten.