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Nin, Anais. Children of the Albatross. E.P. Dutton, 1947.
Price: US$13.50 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Pages have some discoloring; some water damage to the covers and gutters; a reading copy still. The dust jacket is present but heavily chipped, torn and soiled. Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Inventory No: 201712.
Seller: Easy Chair Books, Lexington, MO, U.S.A.
Nin, Anais. Children of the Albatross. E. P. Dutton & Company, New York, 1947.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: dj has some soiling and small chip on lower spine, edge wear. S10 6
Seller: COVENANT HERITAGE LIBRIS, Saint John, NB, Canada
Anais Nin. Children of the Albatross. E.P. Dutton & Co., 1947.
Price: US$52.20 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Stated first edition. Unclipped dust jacket with light soiling. Small v-shaped chip to top rear of jacket and three 1/16" closed tears to bottom rear of jacket, now in protective mylar. Black boards with gilt title on spine. Clean text and interior. Tight, square binding. Light soiling to top edge.
Seller: Genesee Books, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Anais Nin. Children of the Albatross. E.P. Dutton & Company, 1947.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Stated first edition. DJ not price-clipped. DJ has chips tops and bottom. Slight foxing to page tops.
Seller: Unique Books, Lexington, KY, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. All edges of the text block have some ground-in dirt, especially the top edge. The dust jacket has some generalized rubbing, edge wear, small nicks and tears and several small to medium edge chips, especially the top spine end. The top corner of the front flap has a small crease. "Nin was a friend, and in some cases lover, of many leading literary figures, including Henry Miller, John Steinbeck, Antonin Artaud, Edmund Wilson, Gore Vidal, James Agee, James Leo Herlihy, and Lawrence Durrell. Her passionate love affair and friendship with Miller strongly influenced her both sexually and as an author. Nin wrote about her infatuation with the Surrealist artist Bridget Bate Tichenor in her diaries. Claims that Nin was bisexual were given added circulation by the Philip Kaufman film Henry & June about Henry Miller and his second wife June Miller. The first unexpurgated portion of Nin's journal to be published, Henry and June, makes it clear that Nin was stirred by June to the point of saying (paraphrasing) , "I have become June," though it is unclear whether she consummated her feelings for her sexually. To both Anaïs and Henry, June was a femme fataleirresistible, cunning, erotic. Nin gave June money, jewelry, clothes, often leaving herself broke." (from Wikipedia)
Seller: S. Howlett-West Books (Member ABAA), Modesto, CA, U.S.A.
Nin, Anais. CHILDREN OF THE ALBATROSS. Dutton, 1947.
Price: US$98.60 + shipping
Description: CHILDREN OF THE ALBATROSS, Dutton, 1947, first edition, just about fine in vg lightly rubbed dust-wrapper with some chipping at and near the head of the dust-wrapper spine. From the library of Ms. Nin's close friend Motion Picture and Television director Curtis Harrington with his ownership signature on the f.e.p. Nice association thus.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
NIN, Anaïs. Children Of The Albatross. E.P. Dutton and Company, New York, 1947.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Bottom edge slightly bumped else fine in near fine jacket with a bit of chipping to the head of the spine and top corner.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Nin, Anais. Children of the Albatross. E.P. Dutton, 1947.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: SIGNED by Anais Nin on the ffep. Flatsigned, no inscription. Jacket has much edge wear with short tears and some rubbing.
Seller: Ahab Books, Glencoe, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$386.25 + shipping
Description: Octavo. 182 pages signed by the author. An abstract novel which uses abstractions to show how the children writes of their dreams in a psycho-analytic way accompanied with their waking fantasies. It is most completely enacted by a boy of seventeen, but in his relationship with others he reveals the persistence of this conflict in mature characters. The craving for freedom and the fear of being possessed. Bound in black cloth, spine lettering gilt, erasure mark to upper corner of front free endpaper, in unclipped dust jacket with a piece torn away along upper edge and chipping to corners, spine ends and front flap at fold. A very good copy.
Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.
Nin, Anais.. Children of the Albatross.. E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc, New York, 1947.
Price: US$525.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Printing. A Fine copy in black cloth, in a Near Fine yellow dustwrapper, not price-clipped, lightly rubbed with tiny loss to spine ends. 182pp. Impressive photo of Nin on rear panel of jacket. This copy gracefully SIGNED (no inscription) on the free front endpaper by Nin. Q18741
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.