Unpublished Selections from The Diary

NIN, Anaïs

Verlag: The Duane Schneider Press, 1968

NIN, Anaïs Unpublished Selections from The Diary Athens, Ohio: The Duane Schneider Press, 1968 4to., black cloth-backed yellow card wraps; printed in black to the upper cover; pp. [x], 3-43, [v]; a near-fine copy, a couple of very light red dots to the upper cover; an excellent example. Provenance: Embossed library stamp of B. J. T./ Bernie Taupin to the second fly-leaf. Limited edition, one of just 140 copies, of which 125 for sale, boldly signed by Nin facing the title. This copy no. 66. Hand set and pressed at the Duane Schneider Press Athens, Ohio, over a fourteen-month period between September 1967 to October 1968. The last page, it is noted in the colophon, went to press on Sunday, October 27, 1968. The collector's blindstamp is presumably that of Bernard John Taupin, CBE, one half of the Elton John songwriting partnership. SIGNED BY NIN and with an interesting provenance. Nin's diaries, in various versions, started appearing in the 1960s. Harry T Moore said they would 'probably be one of the most exciting literary achievements of the century'. Alan Swallow published the first volume jointly with Harcourt Brace, which was a huge success, and Durrett Wagner continued his legacy with assistance from Ohio University Press (which Duane Schneider would later run). It was primarily Nin s diaries which would lead her to become famous and acclaimed internationally. Occasionally she would allow a friend to issue a special publication, such as this book of unpublished extracts. Duane Schneider (1937-2012) was a Professor at Ohio University, and chair of the English department. He maintained a close friendship with Nin, which grew out of an appreciative book he wrote on her work together with Benjamin Franklin V. Schneider set up a publishing concern, Croissant & Co, in the 1970s, printing on a hand press short works by Nin, Joyce Carol Oates, and Ray Bradbury. Schneider hand printed extracts that were left out of volume one of the published Diary at Hiram Haydn s (a senior editor at Harcourt Brace and Random House) request. He wrote perceptively about Nin s work, sometimes with Benjamin Franklin V., Nin s official bibliographer. This copy with the collector's blindstamp of Bernie Taupin ('BJT'), almost certainly the Oscar-winning lyricist for Elton John, Bernard John Taupin CBE. Taupin has had a longstanding collaboration with Elton John as a lyricist (from 1967 to the present day), and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2023, as well as being the winner of the Ivor Novello Award in 2024. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 333

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Unpublished Selections from The Diary
Verlag: The Duane Schneider Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 1968
Einband: Soft cover
Zustand: Near Fine
Signiert: Signed by Author(s)
Auflage: Limited Edition