Lot Details
Lot 183
NIN, ANAIS Typescript character sketch from Collages.
[N.p.: early 1960s?]. A seven-page typed manuscript headed "Sketches", with hand-corrections to most pages and a four line manuscript addition to one leaf, these annotations likely in the hand of an editor. 11 x 8 3/4 inches; the sheets hole punched and with rounded corners. One leaf with a marginal tear and crease, the last leaf with a few short closed tears at margin, folds, else fine.
An interesting original typescript providing character sketches that appear to be published in Nin's Collages, 1964. In this text, names have been omitted and are indicated by ellipses, and these are marked with X's by the editor along with other corrections.
The typescript includes this memorable anecdote, which differs from the published text: "Another time I had a jealous tantrum at the Ritz bar, and I began to break glasses. Count .... calmly called the headwaiter and said: 'Bring a tray with a dozen of your best glasses. If Madame feels like breaking glasses she must have the best.' This embarrassed me so much I left the place. He always wanted the upper hand; he always won and I enjoyed that. He spread the rumor that I had a neurotic fear of automobiles and made me go about in a horse and carriage. Another time he bought me a Rolls Royce with the whitest, blondest chauffeur he could find and insisted I go about in it dressed in dungarees. Entering a cafe one day in this costume, a man stopped me and said: 'You must be .... I am Cocteau.' With us it was not so much a physical fascination as a mental one. We were both as mad. No, he never did marry me, and I never did get a castle in Marrakesh, but he made me laugh for three and a half years."
Materials such as this from Anais Nin are uncommon at auction this is likely the typescript character sketch sold at Swann Galleries in 1988 located in Rare Book Hub.
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