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Nin, Anais. HOUSE OF INCEST. Gemor Press [1947], [San Francisco], 1947.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 52 pages; VG; bound in publisher's orange cloth, black titling, plain spine; very mild rubbing; interior clean; shelved case 0. Initially self-published in Paris in 1936, and self-published in the US in 1947.; 1351759. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Nin, Anais. House of Incest. Gemor Press, [San Francisco], 1947.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Slight bump to lower spine, else fine in very good, lightly toned dust jacket with a clean, straight split to rear spine fold, separating rear panel and with small chips to spine tips, in mylar cover.
Seller: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Nin, Anais. House of Incest. Gemor Press, 1947.
Price: US$248.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: No date. Copyright by the author. Orange cloth with an illustration on front. Tanning.
Seller: SuzyQBooks, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Anais Nin. House of Incest. Gemor Press, 1947.
Price: US$249.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Originally published in 1936, House of Incest is Anaïs Nin's first work of fiction. Based on Nin's dreams, the novel is a surrealistic look within the narrator's subconscious as she attempts to distance herself from a series of all-consuming and often taboo desires. Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. No date. Copyright by the author. Orange cloth with an illustration on front. Tanning. Photos available by request. International customers will be charged actual shipping costs.
Seller: Bergen Book Studio, Hillsdale, NJ, U.S.A.
NIN, Anais. A CHILD IS BORN OUT OF THE FOG. Gemor Press, New York, 1947.
Price: US$320.82 + shipping
Description: Six page booklet with orange stiffened paper covers. First publication of this essay. The last page has an advertisement for the limited edition of House of Incest. A fine copy.
Seller: Worlds End Bookshop (ABA, PBFA, ILAB), LONDON, United Kingdom
Nin, Anäis:. House of Incest. Mit 8 Vignetten.. New York, Gemor Press, (1947)., 1947.
Price: US$330.62 + shipping
Description: 52 S. First American edition, first printing. Erste amerikanische Ausgabe, erster Druck. - Anais Nin erster Roman - ein ausgedehntes Prosa-Gedicht. Mit einer handschriftlichen Signatur der Autorin (innen vereinzelt mit Unterstreichungen). Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 0 8°. Oranges Original-Leinen mit Deckelillustration.
Seller: Antiquariat Langguth - lesenhilft, Köln, Germany
NIN, Anais. House of Incest. Gemor Press, [San Francisco], 1947.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First American edition. Narrow octavo. 52pp. Orange cloth stamped in black. Light offset browning to endpapers from the jacket flaps, else a fine copy in very good dust jacket has a thin chip at the top edge of front panel, and with some splitting along rear panel where it meets spine, archivally mended on verso.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Anais, Nin. HOUSE OF INCEST. Gemor Press, 1947.
Price: US$451.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIrst edition self published inscribed by the author "Dr. Margaret Fries, Anais Nin with thanks for understanding that beneath the poetry lies psychoanalysis." Dr. Fries was a NY analyst. The book is clean, no DJ. The cloth spine has been professionally mended. ; Signed by Author
Seller: Mostly Useful Fictions IOBA, Commack, NY, U.S.A.
NIN, Anaïs. HOUSE OF INCEST. New York: Gemor Press., 1947.
Price: US$1020.20 + shipping
Description: First US edition, first printing. Signed and inscribed presentation copy. Original orange cloth lettered and decorated in black to the front panel, lacking the scarce dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout. The cloth is a little dusty with a few light surface marks. Rubbed to spine tips, with a small split (c. 2.5 cm) to the cloth along the rear edge of the spine. Inscribed by the author in black ink to the front free endpaper, "Marcus Blechman / a woman's Season / in Hell / Anaïs Nin". The recipient is the renowned photographer, Marcus Blechman, who was responsible for a number of memorable portraits of stars of Hollywood theatre and film (including Tallulah Bankhead, Gloria Swanson, and Helen Hayes). 'House of Incest', Nin's first work of fiction, was originally published in 1936 as 'The House of Incest' (later editions dropping the definite article) by Siana Editions in Paris. This edition, published the following decade, was issued by Nin's own Gemor Press. A short, concentrated, personal work, it is, according to her biographer Noel Riley Fitch, "her most complex work,[and] the best illustration of her literary beliefs in the primacy of psychological reality and the Jungian dreamworld". Her description of the work as "a woman's Season in Hell" in this copy's inscription, with its allusion to Rimbaud's great long prose poem (a work famously championed and translated by Nin's lover, Henry Miller) was one that she used again in a 1959 letter to Laurence Durrell, and is an indication that Nin thought of this strange, enigmatic work more as a poem in prose than as a novel. (Noël Riley Fitch, 'Anaïs: The Erotic Life of Anaïs Nin', Boston: 1993; Franklin A2b). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
Anais Nin. HOUSE OF INCEST. Gemor Press, Nueva York, 1947.
Price: US$4628.68 + shipping
Description: Magnífica obra de Anais Nin escrita en inglés. Con 3 grabados originales del artista y cineasta Ian Hugo firmados a mano por él. Edición de 50 ejemplares numerados y firmados por la autora, éste es el nº 1. Dedicado por Anäis y Hugo. Cartoné en estuche. 30x42. 1947. Novela 21 páginas
Seller: Librería Pérez Galdós, Madrid, Spain