Portfolio. An International Quarterly. Volume II. Spring 1947

(Washington, DC / Paris): Black Sun Press, 1947.

Price: $650.00

Unbound. First edition. Portfolio with 32 loose sheets in paper folder. Edited by Henry Miller, Romare Bearden, Sam Rosenberg, and Harry T. Moore. Folder very good with dampstain, tears, and chips, and split at the fold. Interior sheets show minor signs of toning with the occasional tiny chip or subtle dampstain. Complete set with table of contents and contributors page. Includes works by Harry Thornton Moore, Harry Goode, Conrad Moricand, Edwin J. Becker, Leo Tolstoy, Anäis Nin, Emanuel Carnevali, Albert Cossery, Georg Mann, Rene Batigne, Harry Crosby, Merle Hoyleman, Selden Rodman, Mason Jordan Mason, Charles Olson, René Bélance, Vera Inber, George Leite, Modigliani, Max Ernst, Roberto Fasola, William Calfee, Jim Poe, Scipione, Justin N. Locke, Mirko, Man Ray, Carmelo and Meraud Guevara.

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Item #315980 Portfolio. An International Quarterly. Volume II. Spring 1947. Anaïs NIN, Charles Olson, Harry Crosby, Albert Cossery, Man Ray.

Anais Nin
birth name: Anais Nin
born: 2/21/1903
died: 1/14/1977

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Biography

French-born author of novels and short stories whose literary reputation rests on the eight published volumes of her personal diaries. Her writing shows the influence of the Surrealist movement and her study of psychoanalysis. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature
Nin is also for her erotica. She was a friend (and in some cases lover) to many other leading literary figures including Henry Miller, Edmund Wilson, Gore Vidal, James Agee, and Lawrence Durrell.more