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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
NIN, ANAÏS. Group of 8 items, each Signed, "Anaïs" or in full, to editor William Kozlenko: Two Typescripts * 4 Autograph Letters * Two Autograph Notes. The typescripts: each a screenplay treatment or single act play adapted from a portion of Cities of the Interior (1959): Spy in the House of Love and The Party, each with holograph title and signature on front cover. Together 30 pages, written on rectos only. 4to, wrappers or paper folder; 3 punch holes in left margin, moderate scattered soiling, few scattered corrections in unknown hand. The letters, sending short writings [typescripts in this lot, possibly others not present], discussing current projects and personal news. Together 4 pages. 12x12 inches or smaller, one on personal stationery, one on verso of printed artwork for long playing record: "Anais Nin Reading Under a Glass Bell." Two with the original envelope. The notes, one on a postcard, promising to bring novels or stating that [Robert] Wise has a script by [Marguerite] Duras. Each 1 page, 12mo. Vp, 1958-59
Nd: ". . . [M]y life in New York is intense, over-full, over-active like a bout of fever! But rich and Kaleidoscopic. . . ." [27 October 1958]: ". . . [Y]ou thought I didn't see you because I felt disappointed that 'Spy' didn't get filmed . . . I do know too much about publishing and filming to hold that against you! . . . How many of our projects just don't become concrete. Robert Wise was not satisfied with Marguerite Duras script--and so it goes. . . ."
