The Diary of Anais Nin

by NIN, Ana•s

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New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World [Jovanovich later eds], 1966-1980. First editions of all seven volumes. Octavos. Publisher's cloth with original dust jackets. Minor wear to jacket extremities. Overall, a very good set.This set belonged to an employee of A Different Light Books bookshop, a gay and lesbian bookshop active in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles in the 80s and was a friend of Rupert Pole, Anais Nin's "West-Coast husband". Mr. Pole, who was trained as an actor, worked as a forest ranger and later taught science at a Los Angeles middle school. Technically, he and Nin were married only from 1955 to 1966. But he was by all accounts her devoted companion for three decades, from 1947, when they first locked eyes in a Manhattan elevator, until her death from cancer in 1977. For all that time, Nin was married to her first husband, Hugh Guiler, whom she wed in 1923. (A banker, Guiler later became an experimental filmmaker under the pseudonym Ian Hugo.) For years, she performed a precarious balancing act, dividing her time between Mr. PoleÕs spartan cabin in the Sierra Madre and GuilerÕs opulent apartment in New York. If Mr. Pole knew of NinÕs double life Ñ and for years he apparently did not Ñ he did not object much.From the owner; "When I worked at A Different Light Books in Silver Lake I coordinated a celebration to honor Anais Nin on the anniversary of her birth on Thursday, February 21, 1985. Rupert chose a steamy scene between Nin and Henry Miller from the unexpurgated diary he was then editing and read it with enormous brio. His listeners were amused that there in a gay/lesbian bookstore Rupert chose an unabashed hetero-erotic passage. Rupert enjoyed his role as executor and editor and as the person who kept NinÕs legacy alive. He also enjoyed traveling with Kazuko. The last time I saw him was in the late 80s at a signing for one of the published unexpurgated diaries." At the time of that celebration, the set owner asked Rupert Pole to sign some her of volumes of Nin's diary and he complied by gracing five of them with signatures and inscriptions. All of the inscriptions are meaningful and well crafted. They are as follows; "For Ann, the Diary comes to California - the beginning of a "Little Weekend" that lasted 30 years, With love, Rupert, Feb., 1985": "For Ann, the first published Diary with a volume number! N one - even Anais - thought there would be a volume two. With love, Rupert, Feb. 1985": :For Ann, the Diaries are finally published - the beginning of fame and all its problems. Love Rupert, Feb., 1985": "For Ann, the beginning of the New York diary. Anais buys the press for $75! Joaquin called her "The Steel Hummingbird" Bob Synder called her "Gossamer and Guts". With love, Rupert, Fe. 1985". Pole inscribed a copy of Volume 7 to the owner in 1980 following a reading he did from it for about eight people after one of his Sunday evening string recitals at the Hidalgo Street home he occupied with Nin.": "For Ann, the first to hear and appreciate the Epilogue. The Lost Diary but never the Lost Work. With love, Rupert, June 1980?". All volumes have the owner's discreet embossed stamp on the title pages.

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