Ladders Fire by Nin: Signed (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1946. Octavo. Hardcover with a dust jacket. First edition. Inscribed by Nin on the first free end paper. Writing on the spine is faded. Modest foxing to the top and bottom edge of the text block and the first free end paper. Fore edge of the rear board bumped. Unclipped jacket is a touch soiled, torn and edge worn. Book is very good jacket is good. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Softcover Issue, Beige Wrappers Printed In Black; Unpaginated. Inscribed By Nin To A Female Friend, And With The Friend's Signature. Wear, Foxing To Covers, Spine Bowed, Still Very Good. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR, FIRST EDITION, hard cover, is in VERY GOOD CONDITION. No Jacket. 213 pages bound in black cloth, with stamped gilt design on cover. Gilt on spine is mostly worn off. Inscription of ffp reads "For Clarice Brows from her friends, Anais & Hugo". The story of a woman at war with herself. BINDING AND HINGES STRONG AND TIGHT. Light foxing on top of page edges and 1 spot of ffp, not interfering with inscription or signature. PAGES STILL BRIGHT. Hugo, Ian (illustrator). Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Signed presentation inscription from Anaïs Nin to Claude Fredericks, playwright, printer and irrepressible diarist (and, as a classics professor, teacher of Donna Tartt and a person fictionalised in her 1992 novel The Secret History). In 1946 Fredericks was working with Nin at her Gemor Press in Greenwich Village; Nin found herself reading his journals (which eventually ran to a simply staggering 65,000 pages.). The inscription to the front free endpaper reads: 'Claude's diary. There were pages in the diary about an afternoon in the park, in the snow which contained the whole mysterious landscape of adolescent love with the mood of no footprints on the snow, the mood of beginning, the mood of the sharpest pain more naked in the gloved hands and muffled words. Anaïs'. Spotting to the top edge of the text block and light spotting to the preliminaries; a mark to the front free endpaper and front paste down endpaper; a few marks to the black cloth. Text pages largely very clean, bar some spotting at the top edge. Titles faded to spine. Ian Hugo (illustrator). Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Black cloth with gilt lettering and design. Boards and extremities rubbed. Slight water stains to head and tail of spine and boards. Endpapers and pages foxed and stained. Previous owner's gift inscription on ffep. Dust jacket creased and stained with chips and tears. Inscribed by Nin and signed by Hugo on ffep. Ian Hugo (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Jacket is edge worn and soiled. Eighth inch tear to head of front panel, a bit of loss at jacket flap fold and wrinkles to foot. Jacket spine is chipped across head with a jagged, upside down T shaped tear through "Anais Nin" and creasing and a bit of chipping to foot. Rear panel is soiled with an eighth inch tear to head at spine. Titling to book spine worn, end-papers slightly darkened at the gutters. Binding firm. Inscribed to writer Jan Gabrial (pen name of Janine Lowry Singer, Malcolm Lowry's first wife) and signed on front free end-paper. Otherwise unmarked copy. Franklin A7a. Ian Hugo (illustrator). Inscribed by Author(s). …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. With engravings by Ian Hugo. Near fine in a very good dustwrapper missing the bottom one inch of the spine, edgewear, rear panel soiled. Inscribed by the author to painter/sculptor Luke Gwilliam with his bookplate on the front endpaper.…

couverture souple. The Swallow press | Chicago 1959 | 13.4 x 21 cm | Broché | Nouvelle édition. Agréable exemplaire. Envoi autographe signé d'Anaïs Nin à son amie la femme de lettres Christiane Baroche : "Vos paroles Christiane Baroche : "je veux cueillir le feu comme un dernier amant" amitié et concordances. Anaïs Nin." | [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION FOLLOWS] First edition. A pleasing copy. Inscribed by Anaïs Nin to her friend, the writer Christiane Baroche: "Vos paroles Christiane Baroche : 'je veux cueillir le feu comme un dernier amant' amitié et concordances. Anaïs Nin." *.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. First Edition. Signed by Anaïs Nin and inscribed by her husband, engraver and filmmaker Ian Hugo (born Hugh Parker Guiler, 1898-1985) to attorney Ferdinand J. Wolf, with a handwritten thank you card from Nin signed "Anaïs Guiler" laid in. Octavo. Original black cloth binding, with gilt-stamped titling and decoration. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with some light toning and wear along the extremities. The first novel in Nin's celebrated Cities of the Interior series, interweaving the stories of several women, each emotionally inhibited in her own way: through self-doubt, fear, guilt, moral drift, and distrust. The author's own experiences, as recorded in her famous diaries, supplied the raw material for her fiction. It was her intuitive, experimental, and always original style that transformed one into the other. Signed. …

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by Anais Nin and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in gilt. Very Good with a faint stain to front and rear cover at bottom corners, lightly affecting pastedowns as well. In a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with toning, light edge wear and chipping, and short splits started at the flap folds. A presentable copy. Signed.…