Ladders to Fire

E-156: E. P. Dutton and Company. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1946. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. E. P. Dutton, New York. 1946. 213 pgs. Illustrated. Signed by Anais Nin on the half-title page. DJ heavily chipped and split along the spine with tears present along the spine. Bound in black cloth with gilt titles and design present to the front board and the spine. Tape residue from removed photo present to the reverse of the FFEP and the half-title page. Text is free of marks, binding tight and solid. Anaïs Nin’s Ladders to Fire interweaves the stories of several women, each emotionally inhibited in her own way: through self-doubt, fear, guilt, moral drift, and distrust. The novel follows their inner struggles to overcome these barriers to happiness and wholeness. The author’s own experiences, as recorded in her famous diaries, supplied the raw material for her fiction. It was her intuitive, experimental, and always original style that transformed one into the other. Nin herself memorably claimed that “it was the fiction writer who edited the diary. ” Ladders to Fire is the first book of Nin’s continuous novel, Cities of the Interior, which also includes Children of the Albatross, The Four-Chambered Heart, A Spy in the House of Love, and Seduction of the Minotaur. These loosely interlinked stories develop the characters and themes established in the first volume, leading slowly toward a resolution of inner turmoil and conflict. E-156; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 213 pages; Signed by Author .