Anais Nin.
 
E.P. Dutton: 1946. Octavo. Signed first edition. Inscribed by Nin on the first free end paper. Writing on the spine is faded. Modest foxing to the top and bottom edge of the text block and the first free end paper. Fore edge of the rear board bumped. Unclipped jacket is a touch soiled, torn and edge worn. Book is very good jacket is good.
 
“I suffered from other kinds of pangs. I was prone to the most excessive dreaming, of such intensity and realism that when I awakened I felt I lost an entire universe of legends, myths, figures and cities of such color that they made our room seem a thousand times more bare, the poverty of the table more acute.”