Paris Revisited
NIN, Anaïs
Paris Revisited
Paris: Alyscamps Press, 2011
Large A4 8vo., white card wraps with printed black and white photograph showing a street in Paris; black and white photograph of Nin to the lower panel; pp. [viii], 9-101, [i]; with numerous black and white photographs throughout; aside from light corner crease to the front cover, essentially a fine copy.
Vol I of the Alyscamps Library Series, limited to 100 numbered copies signed by the publisher for private distribution in Paris; this copy no. 80.
George Whitman, founder of Shakespeare and Company, died at his third-floor apartment facing Nôtre Dame in Paris, in December 2011. In the room where he lay, a photo of Anaïs Nin taken in the bookshop downstairs in 1976 was framed and hung upon the book-lined walls. On his bedside table lay a copy of her book Paris Revisited in an illustrated version published especially for him when it became clear he was in decline. According to his daughter Sylvia, he looked at it several times a day, enjoying that he was now linked indelibly with one of his favourite people. Nin's final public event in France, which over three hundred people attended, had been held on 11th November 1974 in the bookshop below. Shakespeare and Company had been a constant in her Paris visits, and those of Henry Miller, and especially Lawrence Durrell, since the late 1950s.
NIN, Anaïs
Paris Revisited
Paris: Alyscamps Press, 2011
Large A4 8vo., white card wraps with printed black and white photograph showing a street in Paris; black and white photograph of Nin to the lower panel; pp. [viii], 9-101, [i]; with numerous black and white photographs throughout; aside from light corner crease to the front cover, essentially a fine copy.
Vol I of the Alyscamps Library Series, limited to 100 numbered copies signed by the publisher for private distribution in Paris; this copy no. 80.
George Whitman, founder of Shakespeare and Company, died at his third-floor apartment facing Nôtre Dame in Paris, in December 2011. In the room where he lay, a photo of Anaïs Nin taken in the bookshop downstairs in 1976 was framed and hung upon the book-lined walls. On his bedside table lay a copy of her book Paris Revisited in an illustrated version published especially for him when it became clear he was in decline. According to his daughter Sylvia, he looked at it several times a day, enjoying that he was now linked indelibly with one of his favourite people. Nin's final public event in France, which over three hundred people attended, had been held on 11th November 1974 in the bookshop below. Shakespeare and Company had been a constant in her Paris visits, and those of Henry Miller, and especially Lawrence Durrell, since the late 1950s.
NIN, Anaïs
Paris Revisited
Paris: Alyscamps Press, 2011
Large A4 8vo., white card wraps with printed black and white photograph showing a street in Paris; black and white photograph of Nin to the lower panel; pp. [viii], 9-101, [i]; with numerous black and white photographs throughout; aside from light corner crease to the front cover, essentially a fine copy.
Vol I of the Alyscamps Library Series, limited to 100 numbered copies signed by the publisher for private distribution in Paris; this copy no. 80.
George Whitman, founder of Shakespeare and Company, died at his third-floor apartment facing Nôtre Dame in Paris, in December 2011. In the room where he lay, a photo of Anaïs Nin taken in the bookshop downstairs in 1976 was framed and hung upon the book-lined walls. On his bedside table lay a copy of her book Paris Revisited in an illustrated version published especially for him when it became clear he was in decline. According to his daughter Sylvia, he looked at it several times a day, enjoying that he was now linked indelibly with one of his favourite people. Nin's final public event in France, which over three hundred people attended, had been held on 11th November 1974 in the bookshop below. Shakespeare and Company had been a constant in her Paris visits, and those of Henry Miller, and especially Lawrence Durrell, since the late 1950s.