Winter of Artifice [Signed and Inscribed by Nin]
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- SIGNED
- New York: Gemor Press, 1942
New York: Gemor Press, 1942. Very Good +. [New York]: [Gemor Press], n.d. [ca. 1942] First American Edition, Limited to 500 copies. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's black pictorial paper-covered boards; [4],155pp.; copper engravings throughout. Brief rubbing to spine ends and corners, white spine titling browned, textblock lightly toned, else a Very Good or better example. Inscribed and signed by the author on front free endpaper: "Dorothy Perera - one of the new women! this decadent world we are transcending / Anaïs Nin / New York, 1943."
The first work to come out of the Gemor Press, which Anaïs Nin and her lover Gonzalo More established in Greenwich Village in 1942, naming it the Gemor Press after Gonzalo, though Nin raised the money, taught herself to set type, and did the lion's share of the physical work. Distribution in turn was aided by Frances Steloff at the Gotham Book Mart.
The works Gemor published--eight titles all together, six of them by Nin herself--were frequently illustrated by Nin's husband Hugh Parker Guiler, who went under the pseudonym Ian Hugo. The colophon in this work notes that Hugo "used the tecnique [sic] which William Blake called 'revealed' because it was revealed to him by his brother in a dream. This is the first time this technique, as developed by S.W. Hayter, has been employed since Blake invented it."
Winter of Artifice was first published by the Obelisk Press in 1939 but the contents were revised for this edition, which Nin's bibliographer Benjamin Franklin (yes, that's right) claims is one of the hardest to date. Nin's diary usefully notes that the work was delivered fully bound on May 15, 1942.
Franklin A3b.
The first work to come out of the Gemor Press, which Anaïs Nin and her lover Gonzalo More established in Greenwich Village in 1942, naming it the Gemor Press after Gonzalo, though Nin raised the money, taught herself to set type, and did the lion's share of the physical work. Distribution in turn was aided by Frances Steloff at the Gotham Book Mart.
The works Gemor published--eight titles all together, six of them by Nin herself--were frequently illustrated by Nin's husband Hugh Parker Guiler, who went under the pseudonym Ian Hugo. The colophon in this work notes that Hugo "used the tecnique [sic] which William Blake called 'revealed' because it was revealed to him by his brother in a dream. This is the first time this technique, as developed by S.W. Hayter, has been employed since Blake invented it."
Winter of Artifice was first published by the Obelisk Press in 1939 but the contents were revised for this edition, which Nin's bibliographer Benjamin Franklin (yes, that's right) claims is one of the hardest to date. Nin's diary usefully notes that the work was delivered fully bound on May 15, 1942.
Franklin A3b.