This Hunger. [Limited Edition, Inscribed and Signed by Nin to George Davis]

Anais Nin; Ian Hugo [pseud. Hugh Parker Guiler] [illus.]

Published by Gemor Press, New York, 1945

About this Item

[New York]: Gemor Press, 1945. First Edition, Limited to 1000 copies. Octavo (21cm); publisher's cream pictorial paper-covered boards printed in magenta; 183pp.; woodblock prints by Hugo throughout. Boards rubbed and worn at corners and spine ends, general dust-soiling and brief damp stain at bottom margin of rear cover, internally clean and sound. A Good to Very Good copy. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper, "For George Davis avec amitié / Anaïs." One of the few works to come out of the Gemor Press, which Anaïs Nin and her lover Gonzalo More established in Greenwich Village in 1942. Though named after Gonzalo, Nin raised the money, taught herself to set type, and did the lion's share of the physical work for the press. Distribution in turn was aided by Frances Steloff at the Gotham Book Mart. Many of the works, as is the case here, were illustrated by Nin's husband Hugh Parker Guiler. Excellent association copy inscribed and signed on front free endpaper to Harper's Bazaar and Mademoiselle editor George Davis (1906-1957). Davis and a collection of like-minded friends had founded a bohemian artist's commune in Brooklyn Heights in 1940 to which Nin was a regular guest. It was Nin who gave the commune its name, February House, after noticing that most of its residents had been born in that month. Franklin A6a.

Seller Inventory # 33870

Bibliographic Details

• Title: This Hunger. [Limited Edition, Inscribed and Signed by Nin to George Davis]
• Publisher: Gemor Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1945
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good -
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Women
  • Women Printers
  • Signed
  • Illustrators
  • Fiction