The Four-Chambered Heart
NIN, Anaïs
The Four-Chambered Heart
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1950
8vo., publisher’s purple cloth, lettered in gilt with title and author’s name to upper board; backstrip sometime lettered in gilt (now faded); pp. [viii], 7-187, [iii]; bumped at corners; spine and edges sunned, with strip of fading to upper edge of lower board; pushed and scuffed at spine tips, with a little loss of cloth; pages lightly and evenly toned, with some corner creases and a few dirt marks to the endpapers; a good to very good copy, lacking the pictorial dust jacket.
True American first edition, with ‘I’ to the copyright page. Presentation copy, inscribed by Nin to the ffep: For /Mr and Mrs Frank Kingdom/Your understanding of AI YE language makes me feel I can send you more books on the world of ‘AI YE!’/ Anaïs”
The Four-Chambered Heart is an autobiographical novel, continuing the Cities of the Interior series, and is fundamentally the story of Nin's ten year-long, passionate but troubled, relationship with her lover, Gonzalo Moré. Moré, a Communist and bohemian, came from a wealthy Peruvian family, but had a troubled and complicated previous life, together with his wife the former exotic dancer Helba Huara.
While Nin essentially tried to rescue the impoverished Moré, initially renting a houseboat on the Seine and then taking him to New York during WWII and setting up the Gemor Press with him in order to get him interested in a trade, Moré proved ultimately beyond her redemption and by 1948 the relationship had fallen apart. Nin wrote: "The Gonzalo I loved is dead. The one I knew at the end, without illusion, I did not love. People create an illusion together and then it is disintegrated by reality."
The Mr Kingdon of the inscription is probably the English-born American journalist, activist, and academic Frank Kingdon, first chairman of the Emergency Rescue Committee - which worked to rescue people from the Holocaust - and later President of what is now Rutgers university.
NIN, Anaïs
The Four-Chambered Heart
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1950
8vo., publisher’s purple cloth, lettered in gilt with title and author’s name to upper board; backstrip sometime lettered in gilt (now faded); pp. [viii], 7-187, [iii]; bumped at corners; spine and edges sunned, with strip of fading to upper edge of lower board; pushed and scuffed at spine tips, with a little loss of cloth; pages lightly and evenly toned, with some corner creases and a few dirt marks to the endpapers; a good to very good copy, lacking the pictorial dust jacket.
True American first edition, with ‘I’ to the copyright page. Presentation copy, inscribed by Nin to the ffep: For /Mr and Mrs Frank Kingdom/Your understanding of AI YE language makes me feel I can send you more books on the world of ‘AI YE!’/ Anaïs”
The Four-Chambered Heart is an autobiographical novel, continuing the Cities of the Interior series, and is fundamentally the story of Nin's ten year-long, passionate but troubled, relationship with her lover, Gonzalo Moré. Moré, a Communist and bohemian, came from a wealthy Peruvian family, but had a troubled and complicated previous life, together with his wife the former exotic dancer Helba Huara.
While Nin essentially tried to rescue the impoverished Moré, initially renting a houseboat on the Seine and then taking him to New York during WWII and setting up the Gemor Press with him in order to get him interested in a trade, Moré proved ultimately beyond her redemption and by 1948 the relationship had fallen apart. Nin wrote: "The Gonzalo I loved is dead. The one I knew at the end, without illusion, I did not love. People create an illusion together and then it is disintegrated by reality."
The Mr Kingdon of the inscription is probably the English-born American journalist, activist, and academic Frank Kingdon, first chairman of the Emergency Rescue Committee - which worked to rescue people from the Holocaust - and later President of what is now Rutgers university.
NIN, Anaïs
The Four-Chambered Heart
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1950
8vo., publisher’s purple cloth, lettered in gilt with title and author’s name to upper board; backstrip sometime lettered in gilt (now faded); pp. [viii], 7-187, [iii]; bumped at corners; spine and edges sunned, with strip of fading to upper edge of lower board; pushed and scuffed at spine tips, with a little loss of cloth; pages lightly and evenly toned, with some corner creases and a few dirt marks to the endpapers; a good to very good copy, lacking the pictorial dust jacket.
True American first edition, with ‘I’ to the copyright page. Presentation copy, inscribed by Nin to the ffep: For /Mr and Mrs Frank Kingdom/Your understanding of AI YE language makes me feel I can send you more books on the world of ‘AI YE!’/ Anaïs”
The Four-Chambered Heart is an autobiographical novel, continuing the Cities of the Interior series, and is fundamentally the story of Nin's ten year-long, passionate but troubled, relationship with her lover, Gonzalo Moré. Moré, a Communist and bohemian, came from a wealthy Peruvian family, but had a troubled and complicated previous life, together with his wife the former exotic dancer Helba Huara.
While Nin essentially tried to rescue the impoverished Moré, initially renting a houseboat on the Seine and then taking him to New York during WWII and setting up the Gemor Press with him in order to get him interested in a trade, Moré proved ultimately beyond her redemption and by 1948 the relationship had fallen apart. Nin wrote: "The Gonzalo I loved is dead. The one I knew at the end, without illusion, I did not love. People create an illusion together and then it is disintegrated by reality."
The Mr Kingdon of the inscription is probably the English-born American journalist, activist, and academic Frank Kingdon, first chairman of the Emergency Rescue Committee - which worked to rescue people from the Holocaust - and later President of what is now Rutgers university.