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House of Incest
by NIN, Anais
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
[San Francisco]: Gemor Press, 1947. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First American edition. Narrow octavo. 52pp. Orange cloth stamped in black. Light offset browning to endpapers from the jacket flaps, else a fine copy in very good dust jacket has a thin chip at the top edge of front panel, and with some splitting along rear panel where it meets spine, archivally mended on verso.
Synopsis
Originally published in 1936, House of Incest is Anais Nin's first fiction novel. This book is a surrealistic escape from a dream which she describes as "the woman's season in hell." Nin's usage of the word incest in this case is metaphorical, not literal; she intends the term to describe a selfish love where one can appreciate in another only that which is similar to oneself.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 502417
- Title
- House of Incest
- Author
- NIN, Anais
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Gemor Press
- Place of Publication
- [San Francisco]
- Date Published
- 1947
- Keywords
- FrenchLiterature
Terms of Sale
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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About the Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Gloucester City, New Jersey
About Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc., founded in 1985, specializes in first editions of 20th Century American and English fiction. Our inventory of over 75,000 first editions includes: African-American literature & history, Mysteries, Detective Fiction, Drama, Books into Film and Sports books. We routinely issue extensively illustrated color catalogs, available by subscription. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA)and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB). Tom Congalton, founder of Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc., actively promotes the ethics and standards of these professional organizations and served as President of the ABAA from 2000 to 2002.
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- Fine
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- Octavo
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- Flap(s)
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- Jacket
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
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