Yonkers, Alicat Bookshop, (1947). Outcast Chapbook No. 11. A short essay on writing by Nin in the Alicat Chapbook series. One of 1000 copies. With an essay on Nin's writing style by poet William Burford. Nin's first book was a study of D. H. Lawrence, one of her important influences, which was published in 1932, and her first novel was published in Paris in 1939. However, her writing fell well outside what was considered acceptable and publishable in the U.S., and her first book in this country was not published until 1946. Nin's diary, to which she refers at length in this essay, was considered a masterpiece of 20th century literature by Henry Miller long before any of it was ever published. When volumes of it began to appear in print in the 1960s, Nin quickly became a heroine not only of the literary avant garde but also of the Sixties counterculture and the emerging women's movement. Very good in stapled wrappers. A fragile and now uncommon item. [#005982] SOLD