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Anais Nin. UNDER A GLASS BELL AND OTHER STORIES. E. P. Dutton & Co, New York, 1948.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Book is quite tight and clean but for a stain on the title page (can't tell what caused it), also some similar small stains on the front end papers. Black boards are quite good with minor wear and shelving soil.
Seller: Dick's Book Barn, Trumansburg, NY, U.S.A.
Nin Anais. under a glass bell and other stories. E.P. Dutton & Co., New York, 1948.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description:
Seller: Ann Open Book, Lansing, MI, U.S.A.
NIN, Anais. UNDER A GLASS BELL AND OTHER STORIES. E. P. Dutton & Co., New York, 1948.
Price: US$48.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Gilt cloth. Rockwell Kent designed bookplate over an earlier ink name on endsheet, else fine in good, somewhat edgeworn dust jacket with chip at crown of spine. First edition thus, including two stories for the first time in book form. Although UNDER A GLASS BELL is now considered one of Anaïs Nin's finest collections of stories, it was initially deemed unpublishable. Refusing to give up on her vision, in 1944 Nin founded her own press and brought out the first edition, illustrated with striking black-and-white engravings by her husband, Hugh Guiler. Shortly thereafter, it caught the attention of literary critic Edmund Wilson, who reviewed the collection in the New Yorker: "The pieces in this collection belong to a peculiar genre sometimes cultivated by the late Virginia Woolf. They are half short stories, half dreams, and they mix a sometimes exquisite poetry with a homely realistic observation. They take place in a special world, a world of feminine perception and fancy. " -- Edmund Wilson, "New Yorker," 1 April 1944.
Seller: Second Wind Books, LLC, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Nin, Anais. Under a Glass Bell and Other Stories. E.P. Dutton & Co., New York, 1948.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 221pp. Black boards, gilt titles on spine.Binding tight, spine straight, corners square. Former owner's book plate on front paste down. Foxing to endpapers. Text block clean and unmarked. Chipping to spine ends of dust jacket. Wear to extremities, but jacket is unclipped, with original $3.00 price on front jacket flap. First American edition of Nin's story collection, which prompted Kirkus Reviews to write that, "Once again Miss Nin creates dream images, illusions of unreality and insanity with poetic if incomprehensible phrases, forming a montage of exotic impressions -- all nebulous."
Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.
Anais Nin. UNDER A GLASS BELL AND OTHER STORIES. E. P. Dutton and Co., New York, 1948.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 6 x 9 in. Black cloth boards. First trade edition, 1948, stated first edition on copyright pg. Condition is VERY GOOD ; covers have some very faint spotting, mild shelf wear. BInding tight, text bright and unmarked. A touch of foxing to text edges. DJ is VERY GOOD ; not clipped ($3.00) very clean but sunned to a grayish color at edges and spine. Edges have wear and chips, small hole in lower spine. In a Mylar wrapper. Fic. RGR.
Seller: Andre Strong Bookseller, Blue Hill, ME, U.S.A.
Nin, Anais. Under a Glass Bell and Other Stories. E.P. Dutton, 1948.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Under the Glass Bell and other stories by Nin. The othrs are: Houseboat, the Mouse, The Mohican, JeSuir Le Plus Malade des Surrealists, Ragtime, The Labyrinth, through the Streets of my own labyrinth, The all-seeing, The Eye's journey, the child born out of the fog, Heja, Birth, Winter of Artifice part I and part I. 221 pages
Seller: Phoenix Books/Joanne's Used Books, Los Banos, CA, U.S.A.
Nin, Anais. UNDER A GLASS BELL AND OTHER STORIES. Dutton, 1948.
Price: US$87.00 + shipping
Description: UNDER A GLASS BELL AND OTHER STORIES, Dutton, 1948, first edition (trade issue), vg+/ near fine in an attractive dust-wrapper with some wear and tear and soiling. From the library of film and television director Curtis Harrington with his ownership signature on the f.e.p. Mr. Harrington was also a friend of Ms. Nin.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Nin, Anais.. Under a Glass Bell and Other Stories.. NY. E.P. Dutton & Co. 1948., 1948.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition (Stated "First Edition" on the copyright page). Very good plus in gleaming black cloth stamped brightly in gold on the spine. In a very good, handsome, complete dustjacket designed by Lester Kohs; jacket is lightly rubbed at the top and bottom of the spine ends and at the corners. Rear panel is lightly soiled. The jacket has the original price of "$3.00" at the bottom of the inside front flap. First Edition (Stated "First Edition" on the copyright page).
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
Nin, Anaïs. Under a Glass Bell. E.P. Dutton, New York, 1948.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Hugo, Ian. First Trade edition. Line engravings on copper by Ian Hugo. 1 vols. Thin 8vo. Black cloth. Fine in fine dust jacket by Lester Kohs Line engravings on copper by Ian Hugo. 1 vols. Thin 8vo
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Anais NIN. Under a Glass Bell and Other Stories. New York: E P Dutton, 1948.
Price: US$140.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST EDITION stated on copyright page, hardcover in black cloth clean tight unmarked, light foxing to endpapers, as is usual with books of this post-WWII period; dust jacket with light edge rubbing, short split at top of front flap fold, not price-clipped $3.00, now protected in acetate plastic cover; light dust to top of text block
Seller: Stony Hill Books, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
Nin, Anais. UNDER A GLASS BELL. E. P. Dutton & Company, New York, 1948.
Price: US$140.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 221 pages; VG/G-; spine black and grey with white titling; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price uncut '$3.00', numerous small chips and tears to extremities, some rubbing and wear; shelved case 2. 1343250. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Nin, Anaïs. UNDER A GLASS BELL, AND OTHER SHORT STORIES. E. P. Dutton and Company, New York, 1948.
Price: US$140.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 221 pages. In Very Good condition with a Good plus dust jacket. Spine black and gray with white lettering. Dust jacket protected in mylar covering, with price uncut: "$3.00". Mild shelfwear. Chipping along edges of dust jacket. Open tear to top right corner of front cover, and closed tear running down from top edge. Back flap partially detached. Soiling and rubbing to front and rear covers. Age-toning to textblock, with foxing on top edge. Pages 209-221 uncut at fore edge. Shelved in Case 2. 1370791. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
NIN, Anais. Under a Glass Bell and Other Stories. E.P. Dutton, New York, 1948.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First trade edition, and with two additional stories. Fine in a very good dust jacket with tiny nicks and tears, and modest rubbing.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
NIN, Anais. Under a Glass Bell and Other Stories. E.P. Dutton, New York, 1948.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First trade edition, and with two additional stories. Fine in slightly spine-faded near fine dustwrapper.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Nin, Anais. Under a glass bell and other stories. E. P. Dutton, [New York, 1948.
Price: US$281.25 + shipping
Description: First edition (crossed out in ink by Nin on the copyright page an in its place, in ink, "1957" edition; 8vo, pp. 101; original pictorial wrappers; dampstains in the bottom margin throughout; prelims also with stains; all else good or better. This copy inscribed: "For Terrence Williams, Anais Nin." At the time of the inscription, Williams, a student at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, was proprietor of a small independent venture publishing the new poetry of poets soon to be famous, including Allen Ginsburg, Robert Creeley, Ed Dorn, and Tomas Transtromer.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Anais Nin. Under a Glass Bell (Signed Association Copy!). E. P. Dutton, 1948.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition Thus; A Very Good or better book in a Very Good dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed by the author to Sascha Laurance, a Hollywood Script Supervisor, later owned by Elton John co-writer Bernie Taupin; Taupin's blind stamp to the front free paper, below the inscription. A unique association copy of this collection of stories, the 3rd collection from Nin, all containing the title story with other mixed content. This copy is in very good or better condition with a square, tight binding, bright gold lettering over clean black boards, and crisp pages throughout free from markings; the book does show some mild rubbed areas to the boards and a couple of small indentions to the edges, else near fine or better. Housed in a clean and bright original dust jacket that shows some mild fading to the spine (common for the title), and some light rubbing and chipping to the edges with a couple of associated short closed tears. Overall, a highly presentable copy, greatly enhanced with Nin's signature and the unique association. Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in a fresh Mylar sleeve and will ship carefully wrapped in a sturdy box.
Seller: Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA, Tomball, TX, U.S.A.