Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first edition, first printing paperback copy of Ladders to Fire by Anaïs Nin. First Vintage International Edition, stated 1959 Swallow Press. First Printing with no subsequent printing or publishing on the copyright page.
The exterior of this paperback edition is in Near Fine condition, with clean, bright covers with a small discoloration from a removed sticker on the front and somewhat larger one on the back. Otherwise the covers are lightly toned, with no creases, clean page blocks, mild surface wear, strong title on an un-cracked spine, a tight binding with no spine cracks, lightly rubbed spine ends, mild edge wear and lightly rounded corners.
The interior of the book is also in Near Fine condition with a three-line notation on the inside cover of the date read by the previous owner and the ghost of an erased price on the first free end paper. No other marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership inside. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright, making it an excellent addition to any collection.
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.”
Very rare! Ships promptly in a manila envelope with book wrapped in both craft paper and multiple layers of bubble wrap.
