D. H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study
NIN, Anaïs.
D. H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study
Paris: Edward W. Titus, 1932
8vo., publisher’s black cloth; titles in gilt to upper cover and spine; lacking the scarce dustwrapper; pp. [xii], 146, [ii]; containing two facsimile manuscript pages from Lady Chatterley’s Lover, a very good copy, light mottling stains to upper board; a couple of spots extending to the lower; faded to spine, as is common, with light compression to spine ends; a clean, bright copy, internally.
Limited edition, one of 550 copies, of which 1-500 for subscribers, 501-550 for press. This copy no. 81.
Anaïs Nin’s first published work, with the rare dust jacket and unopened pages. Harry T. Moore, a long-time professor at Southern Illinois University, Lawrence scholar and biographer, considered it "one of the most valuable books on Lawrence because of its discussion of the texture of his work." The importance of this work was that its focus was literary and not biographical, and concerned with his ideas and the power of his writing, unlike many of the books on Lawrence appearing at this time written by women, which were personal memoirs, including by his wife Frieda (née von Richthofen), but also Jessie Chambers, Dorothy Brett, and Mabel Dodge Luhan. Lawrence, at the time, was a topic of much discussion between Nin and Henry Miller, who wrote The World of Lawrence for his publisher Jack Kahane. Nin's book was apparently written in sixteen days and published by Edward W. Titus (1870-1950) of The Black Manikin bookshop in Paris. Wilson was a Polish-American emigré and husband of the cosmetics magnate Helena Rubinstein, who bankrolled his publishing and bookselling. He was, among others, the publisher of the first widely available edition of Lady Chatterley, as well as Alastair Crowley's translations of Baudelaire and the Mémoires of the noted Surrealist model Kiki de Montparnasse (with photographs by her lover Man Ray and an introduction by Hemingway), as well as Djuna Barnes. Nin and her cousin Eduardo visited Titus' bookshop regularly, which also had rare and expensive books. This was the last title Titus published at the Sign of the Black Manikin, and Nin once claimed that she personally bankrupted Titus' press.
NIN, Anaïs.
D. H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study
Paris: Edward W. Titus, 1932
8vo., publisher’s black cloth; titles in gilt to upper cover and spine; lacking the scarce dustwrapper; pp. [xii], 146, [ii]; containing two facsimile manuscript pages from Lady Chatterley’s Lover, a very good copy, light mottling stains to upper board; a couple of spots extending to the lower; faded to spine, as is common, with light compression to spine ends; a clean, bright copy, internally.
Limited edition, one of 550 copies, of which 1-500 for subscribers, 501-550 for press. This copy no. 81.
Anaïs Nin’s first published work, with the rare dust jacket and unopened pages. Harry T. Moore, a long-time professor at Southern Illinois University, Lawrence scholar and biographer, considered it "one of the most valuable books on Lawrence because of its discussion of the texture of his work." The importance of this work was that its focus was literary and not biographical, and concerned with his ideas and the power of his writing, unlike many of the books on Lawrence appearing at this time written by women, which were personal memoirs, including by his wife Frieda (née von Richthofen), but also Jessie Chambers, Dorothy Brett, and Mabel Dodge Luhan. Lawrence, at the time, was a topic of much discussion between Nin and Henry Miller, who wrote The World of Lawrence for his publisher Jack Kahane. Nin's book was apparently written in sixteen days and published by Edward W. Titus (1870-1950) of The Black Manikin bookshop in Paris. Wilson was a Polish-American emigré and husband of the cosmetics magnate Helena Rubinstein, who bankrolled his publishing and bookselling. He was, among others, the publisher of the first widely available edition of Lady Chatterley, as well as Alastair Crowley's translations of Baudelaire and the Mémoires of the noted Surrealist model Kiki de Montparnasse (with photographs by her lover Man Ray and an introduction by Hemingway), as well as Djuna Barnes. Nin and her cousin Eduardo visited Titus' bookshop regularly, which also had rare and expensive books. This was the last title Titus published at the Sign of the Black Manikin, and Nin once claimed that she personally bankrupted Titus' press.
NIN, Anaïs.
D. H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study
Paris: Edward W. Titus, 1932
8vo., publisher’s black cloth; titles in gilt to upper cover and spine; lacking the scarce dustwrapper; pp. [xii], 146, [ii]; containing two facsimile manuscript pages from Lady Chatterley’s Lover, a very good copy, light mottling stains to upper board; a couple of spots extending to the lower; faded to spine, as is common, with light compression to spine ends; a clean, bright copy, internally.
Limited edition, one of 550 copies, of which 1-500 for subscribers, 501-550 for press. This copy no. 81.
Anaïs Nin’s first published work, with the rare dust jacket and unopened pages. Harry T. Moore, a long-time professor at Southern Illinois University, Lawrence scholar and biographer, considered it "one of the most valuable books on Lawrence because of its discussion of the texture of his work." The importance of this work was that its focus was literary and not biographical, and concerned with his ideas and the power of his writing, unlike many of the books on Lawrence appearing at this time written by women, which were personal memoirs, including by his wife Frieda (née von Richthofen), but also Jessie Chambers, Dorothy Brett, and Mabel Dodge Luhan. Lawrence, at the time, was a topic of much discussion between Nin and Henry Miller, who wrote The World of Lawrence for his publisher Jack Kahane. Nin's book was apparently written in sixteen days and published by Edward W. Titus (1870-1950) of The Black Manikin bookshop in Paris. Wilson was a Polish-American emigré and husband of the cosmetics magnate Helena Rubinstein, who bankrolled his publishing and bookselling. He was, among others, the publisher of the first widely available edition of Lady Chatterley, as well as Alastair Crowley's translations of Baudelaire and the Mémoires of the noted Surrealist model Kiki de Montparnasse (with photographs by her lover Man Ray and an introduction by Hemingway), as well as Djuna Barnes. Nin and her cousin Eduardo visited Titus' bookshop regularly, which also had rare and expensive books. This was the last title Titus published at the Sign of the Black Manikin, and Nin once claimed that she personally bankrupted Titus' press.