On Writing. With an essay on her art by William Burford
NIN, Anaïs
On Writing. With an essay on her art by William Burford.
New York: Gemor Press, 1947
8vo., cream wraps with printed blue and red title labels to upper cover, pasted label with publisher’s device to lower portion; printed with advertisements in red to lower cover (showing ‘Outcast’ Chapbooks by the Alicat Bookshop Press); pp. [iv], 5-29, [i]; very good, light overall toning to pages, some marks to covers and darkening along the spine, which is a little rubbed and creased, otherwise an uptogether example.
One of 1000 copies, of which just 750 were for sale, printed in August 1947 by the Gemor Press in New York. No 11 of the ‘Outcast Chapbooks’ series, priced at $1 per volume. This copy inscribed by Nin ‘for Gertrude’, with Gertrude Odell’s California address label pasted to the title page.
First edition, INSCRIBED. Nin's Gemor Press issued her essay On Writing in August 1947 accompanied by William Burford’s The Art of Anaïs Nin for the Alicat Bookshop in Yonkers, New York. The 'Outcast Chapbooks' were a series produced by Oscar Baradinsky of Alicat from 1945 to 1950, and included Nin’s Realism & Reality (1946), Obscenity and the law of reflection (1945) and The amazing and invariable Beauford DeLaney (c. 1945) by Henry Miller, as well as Hugo Guiler's New Eyes on the Art of Engraving (1946).
William Skelly Burford (1927-2004) was a poet and professor at the University of Texas, Austin and Fulbright scholar to the Sorbonne. He was the winner of the inaugural Walt Whitman Poetry Award in 1963, and his papers are now at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas, which include letters from Nin, among others.
The 'Gertrude' of the inscription is most likely Gertrude Odell, the former City Librarian of San Bernardino, California.
NIN, Anaïs
On Writing. With an essay on her art by William Burford.
New York: Gemor Press, 1947
8vo., cream wraps with printed blue and red title labels to upper cover, pasted label with publisher’s device to lower portion; printed with advertisements in red to lower cover (showing ‘Outcast’ Chapbooks by the Alicat Bookshop Press); pp. [iv], 5-29, [i]; very good, light overall toning to pages, some marks to covers and darkening along the spine, which is a little rubbed and creased, otherwise an uptogether example.
One of 1000 copies, of which just 750 were for sale, printed in August 1947 by the Gemor Press in New York. No 11 of the ‘Outcast Chapbooks’ series, priced at $1 per volume. This copy inscribed by Nin ‘for Gertrude’, with Gertrude Odell’s California address label pasted to the title page.
First edition, INSCRIBED. Nin's Gemor Press issued her essay On Writing in August 1947 accompanied by William Burford’s The Art of Anaïs Nin for the Alicat Bookshop in Yonkers, New York. The 'Outcast Chapbooks' were a series produced by Oscar Baradinsky of Alicat from 1945 to 1950, and included Nin’s Realism & Reality (1946), Obscenity and the law of reflection (1945) and The amazing and invariable Beauford DeLaney (c. 1945) by Henry Miller, as well as Hugo Guiler's New Eyes on the Art of Engraving (1946).
William Skelly Burford (1927-2004) was a poet and professor at the University of Texas, Austin and Fulbright scholar to the Sorbonne. He was the winner of the inaugural Walt Whitman Poetry Award in 1963, and his papers are now at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas, which include letters from Nin, among others.
The 'Gertrude' of the inscription is most likely Gertrude Odell, the former City Librarian of San Bernardino, California.
NIN, Anaïs
On Writing. With an essay on her art by William Burford.
New York: Gemor Press, 1947
8vo., cream wraps with printed blue and red title labels to upper cover, pasted label with publisher’s device to lower portion; printed with advertisements in red to lower cover (showing ‘Outcast’ Chapbooks by the Alicat Bookshop Press); pp. [iv], 5-29, [i]; very good, light overall toning to pages, some marks to covers and darkening along the spine, which is a little rubbed and creased, otherwise an uptogether example.
One of 1000 copies, of which just 750 were for sale, printed in August 1947 by the Gemor Press in New York. No 11 of the ‘Outcast Chapbooks’ series, priced at $1 per volume. This copy inscribed by Nin ‘for Gertrude’, with Gertrude Odell’s California address label pasted to the title page.
First edition, INSCRIBED. Nin's Gemor Press issued her essay On Writing in August 1947 accompanied by William Burford’s The Art of Anaïs Nin for the Alicat Bookshop in Yonkers, New York. The 'Outcast Chapbooks' were a series produced by Oscar Baradinsky of Alicat from 1945 to 1950, and included Nin’s Realism & Reality (1946), Obscenity and the law of reflection (1945) and The amazing and invariable Beauford DeLaney (c. 1945) by Henry Miller, as well as Hugo Guiler's New Eyes on the Art of Engraving (1946).
William Skelly Burford (1927-2004) was a poet and professor at the University of Texas, Austin and Fulbright scholar to the Sorbonne. He was the winner of the inaugural Walt Whitman Poetry Award in 1963, and his papers are now at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas, which include letters from Nin, among others.
The 'Gertrude' of the inscription is most likely Gertrude Odell, the former City Librarian of San Bernardino, California.