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194532968New York: Gemor Press 1945. Very Good . New York: Gemor Press 1945. First Edition Limited to 50 de luxe copies on Etruria paper this unsigned copy presumably hors série. Octavo 24.5cm; publisher's pink pictorial paper-covered boards; 183pp.; hand-colored woodcut frontispiece four leaves of color plates. Light wear to spine ends margins toned brief ink spotting to top edge of rear cover else a Very Good internally clean and sound copy.<br /> <br /> Exceptional example of this de luxe edition of 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. A trade edition limited to 1000 copies with uncolored illustrations appeared simultaneously though this limitation has two extra plates. <br /> <br /> Franklin A6b. Gemor Press unknown
194532955New York: Gemor Press 1945. Very Good . 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. Light wear and dust-soil else a Very Good or better copy. <br /> <br /> Exceptional example of 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. <br /> <br /> Franklin A6a. Gemor Press unknown
194533870New York: Gemor Press 1945. Very Good -. 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."<br /> <br /> 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. <br /> <br /> 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. <br /> <br /> Franklin A6a. Gemor Press unknown
1945140947165New York: Gemor Press 1945. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition first printing. Signed by Anais Nin on the front free endpaper. Publisher's cream paper covered boards printed in maroon with woodcuts by Ian Hugo. Near Fine with very light wear and soiling to covers small stain to rear cover offsetting to end sheets from binder's glue and light even toning to pages. One of 1000 copies of 1050 total. <p>A lovely copy with firm binding. Anais Nin's novel handles the travails of existing as a woman in a male-dominated world. Gemor Press unknown
1945140947340New York: Gemor Press 1945. First Edition. Very Good. First edition first printing. Signed by Anais Nin on the front free endpaper and inscribed with a French quotation to a previous owner. 184 3 pp. Publisher's cream paper covered boards printed in maroon with woodcuts by Ian Hugo. Very Good with light wear and soiling to covers several small stains to spine and front cover and light even toning to pages. Offsetting to pastedowns from binder's glue. One of 1000 copies of 1050 total. <p>An attractive copy designed and printed by the author. Anais Nin's novel handles the travails of existing as a woman in a male-dominated world. Gemor Press unknown
a509981945 First edition Gemor Press. Limited to 1000 copies. Small octavo five monotone woodblocks by Ian Hugo paper covered boards with attractive woodcut illustration in maroon. Signed by Anais: "Jose Alemany con la amistad de Anais Nin New York 1945." Also LAID IN is an autograph letter signed by Nin. This handwritten letter of 13 lines is also written to Jose Alemany. It discusses Nin's current lecture tour of various colleges and her hopes of arranging a visit to Alemany's college. It concludes: "This is my last winter in New York" and is signed "Anais". VG to Near Fine no wear light toning of cover no DJ. In later removable protective glassine jacket. Pictures supplied on request. . hardcover
194521689New York NY: Gemor Press 1945. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/poor. Octavo standard size. Slight wear to edges of boards. Original tissue dust jacket present but heavily worn at edges and cormers. SIGNED and inscribed by Nin to Myron Wood a mid-20th century American photographer and author of several books on the Southwest. Includes a couple NYT newspaper reviews of other Nin works laid in at rear. 183 6 p. Includes colophon noting 1000 copies of the trade edition were made and 50 signed copies with colored illustrations. This is a copy of the trade edition. <br/><br/> Gemor Press hardcover
1098333462.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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1939mon0003984736Obelisk Press 1939-01-01. Paperback. Acceptable. . Scarce first edition 1939. Wraps loose heavy creasing and loss on the spine tanning. Pages tanned and clean. Name of former owner on first page. Obelisk Press paperback
200706923THE WINTER OF ARTIFICE Sky Blue Press 2007 first American and first hardcover edition as new in dust-wrapper. Of 525 published copies this is 1/25 copies numbered and SIGNED by Benjamin Franklin V the author of the 24 page introduction. Of these 25 five have also been SIGNED by the publisher. This is one of the five so double SIGNED. Also included with this special edition is a rare photographic image of Nin from 1930's Paris and a facsimile of an excerpt from her handust-wrapper ritten 1939 diary concerning the book HENRY MILLER AND LAWRENCE DURRELL. Save for the introduction and other preliminary matter this is a replication of the rare 1939 uncensored Obelisk Press edition and not to be confused with the 1942 privately printed Gemor Press edition of 500 copies whose text was much revised and decidedly different. The contents of this work have been out of print for nearly 70 years. Sky Blue Press hardcover
Features: The House of Death; In Mysterious Senoussi Lana - a story from the heart of the Sahara; Pietro's Lost Mine - fortune knocks on a gold prospector's door, only to vanish in a strange way; The Turk at Play - interesting pastimes, including camel-fighting!; The Undoing of Ba Tin - a curious story of murder from Burma as told by a high police official; Our Trek Beyond the Zambesi - Mrs. Maturin; An American Gretna Green - The Rev. A.H. Burroughs, the 'marrying person' of Tennessee; On the Shoals - a tale of desperate peril and splendid heroism on Lake Erie involving the steamer 'Clarion'; The Mountain of the Ark - a description of an ascent of Mount Ararat; Jim Christie and the Bear, by C.H. Gibbons of the Legislative Assembly, Victoria, B.C. - the story of an appalling adventure with a grizzly, the like of which does not exist in the annals of big-game hunting; My Wanderings in Crete; Professor C.H. Hawes studies head-forms and sets forth his experiences, incidentally describing some very curious customs which he encountered; Iveson's Trap - an extraordinary accident strikes a Yorkshire farmer while shepherding in Shunner Fell, Swaledale; Among Ryper and Reindeer in Norway - C.V. Pell hunts game and relates his experiences; Lighting a Bush Fire - an account of an experience in Victoria during the drought of 1898. Above-average wear. Covers holding but loosely. Bonus: Laid-in is a 2016 feature newspaper article on Jim Christie, who appears on the cover of this issue. The article includes an actual photo of the magazine we are offering. Magazine
Features: The Shwebo Dacoities; The Oldest Industry in England; The Doctor's Escape; Travel and Adventure on the 'Roof' of the World - II; The "Freshmen's Banquet"; On the High Seas - I; A Narrow Shave; Fortune-Tellers of Many Lands; The Secret of Hadfield House; District Life in India; "Held Up" by a Shark; A Feast of Blankets; "Black Jack"; The Man-Hunting Dogs of America; A Modern Free-Lance - I; Eventful Engagements; The Ordeal of Malek Chand; My Adventures on Suwarrow; A Modern Free-Lance II; Among Insurgents and Brigands in Crete - I; The Love of Count Erbach; Showing Him Round; On the High Seas - II; Some Fishing Experiences; A Ten-Thousand-Mile Race; The Woman in Black; Across Mexico on Horseback - I; The Gasparini Mystery; A Snake Hunt in Florida; On the High Seas - III; The Baron's Wooing; An African Slave-Market; A Modern Free-Lance - III; Among Insurgents and Brigands in Crete - II; The Tragedy of Manipur; The Last Buffalo Hunt; The New Hand at the Creek; The Sturgeon Fishers of Russia; My Two Days' Holiday - I; Our "Home from Home" in Rhodesia; The Captain's Bride; Across Mexico on Horseback - II; An Interrupted Tour; In the Service of the Sultan; Unique in the Annals of Crime; Through Arctic Seas; The Kidnapping of Eddie Brathwaite; A Village of Basket-Makers; My Two Days' Holiday - II; Some Sporting Experiences - I & II; The Chief's Bow; Across Mexico on Horseback - III; The Long Arm of Coincidence; Hunting the Great Sea-Slug; A Motor-Car Holdup; On the High Seas - IV; The "Mecca" of China; Three in a Tree; The Festival of the "Whale Guest"; The Director's Peril; Witches and Witchcraft in Brittany; On the High Seas - VI; In the Swirl of the Pentland; The "Luck" of the Lozinsky's; The Smuggler's Paradise; The Conversion of Dodge City; Untrodden Paths - II; My Adventure in Germany; A Doctor in the Bush - II; The Abduction of Eva Carson; A Motor-Car Hunting Trip; Down the River; Where Walking-Sticks Grow; The "Yellow Devil"; and more. Book
Features: Unknown New Zealand - misadventure leads to one of the most remarkable and difficult rescues in New Zealand annals; Saharan Adventure - A memorable camel journey right across the Sahara; Six Wild Sheep - experiences while capturing Alaskan wild sheep for a California zoo - several photos; The Pirates of the 'Ethel' - An authoritative account of one of the most remarkable cases of piracy on the high seas in Australian annals; Slippery - a cat goes to sea; Oakhill's 'Souvenir' - Crocodile hunting on the Gregory River; The Tame Bandit - a Chinese achieves vengeance during the troubles in Malaya; Phases of Life from all over the world - Cockeye, ex-inspector, British South Africa Police; Guardians of the Mountains - the Warden's of Canada's western National Parks; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Book
Pages 87-168 plus 32 pages of nice vintage advertisements. Features: The Queer Side of Things - The Haunted Rest-House - an occult story from West Africa; In the Hands of the Bedouin - part I of Anton Hauptmann's story; Hitting the Iron Trial - part I of the author's train-hopping adventure from Vancouver, British Columbia to New York before he carried on to England; Update on the "Harpist of Alexandria", made famous in the July 1928 issue of this publication; The "Fool Afoot" in Italy - part II; "Lo! The Poor Indian" - An amusing account of the ways and wiles of the Red men of British Columbia - with photos; The Taxi-Cab Murder Mystery - one of the most remarkable crimes in the annals of the West Australian Police; The Elephant-Slayer - an amusing story from Kenya colony in 1905-6; A Weighty Problem - young Captain Gillon and the vessel Saragossa; Piano Tuner Kenneth J. McCombie's Adventure; In a Hole - the author fell into a hole at a New Mexico gravel pit; "Wide World" Sequels; The "Fleet of the Lost" - great article about the old windjammers residing at Alameda, on the shores of San Francisco Bay - article with nice photos; Man and his Needs; House and Garden; Stamps of the World. Average wear. Small protective pieces of tape at each end of backstrip. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
Features: Seeking the Golden Cliff - a prospecting expedition in the Central Australian desert; The Hyena - a veteran mining prospector and his story of African Ju-Ju; The Train was Late; A Fool Afoot in France - Part II of an Englishman's walk in France; Murder by Witchcraft - the Crown Prosecutor recounts an amazing case from British East Africa; Crackerjack - interesting stories of serving under a 'character' British sea-captain; The Sadhu's Gift - an interesting Indian tale; Chinese Makeshifts - how the Chinese adapt obsolete products into tools of use - photos; The Mad Trapper - a most extraordinary tale from the annals of the Canadian "Mounties"; How Holland Fights the Sea; The Conquered the Desert - a tribute to the camel - photos; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Backstrip missing chips. 3" x 2" chunk from bottom edge of back cover. Unmarked. Book
Features: Unknown New Zealand - Two young men set out to explore unmapped territory between Lake Te Anau and the coast, only to meet with disaster - A lake (Bloxham) and waterfall (Dorizac) discovered by these plucky young climbers are officially named after them; Saharan Adventure - includes encounters with the blue-eyed Tuaregs, the veiled nomads of the desert, who wear chain-mail armour of the Crusades and carry swords and lances; Six Wild Sheep - Describes author's experience trying to capture Alaskan wild sheep for a California zoo; The Pirates of the Ethel - First published in 1929, this is an authoritative account of one of the most remarkable cases of piracy on the high seas in Australian annals; Oakhill's "Souvenir" - the adventure of a crocodile hunter; The Tame Bandit - An amusing story arising out of the troubles in Malaya - Dragged away from farm and family by the terrorists, and forced to serve with them under the threat of death, an inoffensive little Chinese secretly vowed vengeance, and at long last achieved it; "Cockeye" - Phases of Life From All Over the World - Vivid little close-ups of manners and customs around the world; Guardians of the Mountains - The Wardens of Canada's National Parks. Colour 'Butlin's Holiday Camp' brochure laid-in. Staining to page i of advertisements. Front cover detached. Heavy wear externally. Contents in decent condition. Magazine
Features: The Mine that Disappeared - a story related by a mining engineer about the Bocanegra Mine; Casshel's Escape - the story of Ernest Casshel, one of the few criminals to ever escape from the "North-West Mounted" (locale - Calgary, Alberta); On the trail of the Dinosaur - a recent expedition into the Colorado River section of the great American Desert, in the State of Arizona, claims to have found not only fossil tracks of the three-toed dinosaur, but a rock-carving of a dinosaur - a picture which man could not have made unless he had seen the reptile he attempted to portray - photos; Babes in a boat - a neophyte sailor and his wife set sail across the Pacific - Part II (conclusion); The Padded Room - one of the most amazing plots in the annals of the French police; Five Greenhorns in Canada - An amusing and illustrated account of the adventures of five inexperienced Englishmen who set forth to make homes for themselves in the Canadian wilderness; Lost in the heart of Peru - an explorer is abandoned by his guide in the upper reaches of the Amazon - part IV (conclusion); The Demon Lion of Bandari - Lion Hunt; At Grips in the Girders - an extraordinary battle; An Alligator-Hunter's Story in Mexico; Part IV of In Search of the Lost Oases - a desert trip from Sollum on the Mediterranean to El Obeid in the Sudan - many photos; The Phantom Reporter - a story from Canada's Pacific Coast by Charles Harrison Gibbons. Above-average wear. Faint owner's name atop front cover else unmarked. Binding intact. Nothing loose. Decent copy of this broadly interesting issue. Book
