Under a Glass Bell and Other Stories de Nin, Anais - 1948

Chicago: The Swallow Press [1948]. 1948. Later Printing. Paperback. Very Good. In pictorial wraps, 8vo 101pp. (minor light toning to extremities)

Chicago, IL: Swallow Press, 1948. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Stiff illus. wraps. Covers mildly tanned in a few areas, light crease to bottom rear corner. Firm binding, clean interior beyond former owner's signature on upper half-title. .

Denver: Alan Swallow, 1961. Soft cover. Very Good-. Engraving by Ian Hugo.

Peter Owen, 1968. Hardcover. Acceptable/Good. 1968. First British Commonwealth . 128 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth with gilt lettering. Library copy, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Front free endpaper torn and missing. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Front pastedown heavily scratched. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Tape to boards. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing.

Athens: Swallow Press, 1995. First Edition. Paperback. As New. Octavo. With a foreword by Nin scholar Gunther Stuhlmann, this is a posthumous first Swallow edition of these scarce Nin stories. A pristine copy, clean and unmarked.

Chicago: The Swallow Press slight wear to covers and cover edges, owners note front endpaper, otherwise book clean and tight. Reprint. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Dutton, 1948. Hardcover. 221p., nonauthorial gift inscription else good first edition stated in black cloth boards with heavily rubbed gilt spine title. Grier A**. Includes the complete "Winter of Artifice" in two parts which was issued by Obelisk with more explicit passages.

Denver: Alan Swallow. Edition Not Stated . Soft cover. Very Good-. Hugo, Ian; Engraving By. Copyright 1948. 1/2" tear to rear cover, moisture stain to bottom, exterior corner. 1.00 price on cover.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1948. 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.". First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good-. 8vo.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1948. First edition. Near fine./Good.. 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… Leer más