{"id":3188,"date":"2016-09-28T20:56:32","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T20:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/?p=3188"},"modified":"2016-09-28T20:56:32","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T20:56:32","slug":"rare-first-edition-discovered-within-book-sale-donations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/2016\/09\/28\/rare-first-edition-discovered-within-book-sale-donations\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare, first edition discovered within book sale donations!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An incredible rare book was found during a review of the recent gift book donations. The novella,\u00a0<em>Under a Glass Bell,\u00a0<\/em>was written by\u00a0Ana\u00efs Nin in 1944. It is a first edition, and is one of 300 unnumbered copies printed at the Gemor Press.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure style=\"width: 277px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"George Leite and Ana\u00efs Nin at Daliel's Bookstore in Berkeley, CA, 1946.\" src=\"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/s_bookstore_in_Berkeley_CA_1946.jpg\" width=\"277\" height=\"277\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Leite and Ana\u00efs Nin at Daliel&#8217;s Bookstore in Berkeley, CA, 1946.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ana\u00efs Nin began writing the stories collected in\u00a0<em>Under a Glass Bell<\/em>\u00a0in Paris during the mid to late 1930s and finished in New York after she fled France because of the war.\u00a0 When she could not find a publisher for her original collection of eight short stories, she resorted to self-publishing\u00a0with her Gemor Press in 1944.<\/p>\n<p>Designed completely at the Gemor Press, the text was handset by Nin\u00a0in Bernhard Gothic Light Italic, ten point, and printed on Watermarked Zurich Plate Finish paper.\u00a0 The cover and the seventeen engravings on copper\u00a0were designed and created by Nin&#8217;s husband, Ian Hugo.<\/p>\n<p>The book is in excellent condition with little wear to its spine or edges,\u00a0considering no dust jacket was issued.\u00a0 It has an interesting provenance as it is was once owned by Harold Geisse, Jr.&#8211; a former librarian in the Bartle Library.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Geisse inscription\" src=\"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Geisse-inscription.jpg\" width=\"317\" height=\"268\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This book can be considered\u00a0an association copy\u00a0due to this\u00a0inscription written on the front free endpaper:\u00a0\u00a0<em>Harold L. Geisse, Jr. Camp Ritchie, April 1944<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>According to Wikipedia, during World\u00a0War II, Fort (Camp) Ritchie became the U.S. Army Military Intelligence Training Center, the first time in the history of the U.S. military that it\u00a0had a facility for this type of centralized intelligence training. Once soldiers arrived, they were told not to identify themselves as \u201cmilitary intelligence\u201d to anyone, not even their families.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands lived and worked at Fort Ritchie during World War II. The Army conducted signal intelligence training, instruction regarding interrogation techniques and close-combat training (in a mock German village constructed at the site) throughout the war.\u00a0 More than 10,000 students graduated from the Army\u2019s intelligence program at Fort Ritchie by the end of the war.<\/p>\n<address>Our thanks to Mr. Geisse for his support of the University Libraries. This book will become part of the rare book collection in our Special Collections Department.<\/address>\n<address>\u00a0<\/address>\n<h5>For more information, contact Beth Kilmarx, Curator of Rare Books at bkilmarx@binghamton.edu\u00a0or 607-777-3403.<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An incredible rare book was found during a review of the recent gift book donations. The novella,\u00a0Under a Glass Bell,\u00a0was written by\u00a0Ana\u00efs Nin in 1944. It is a first edition, and is one of 300 unnumbered copies printed at the Gemor Press. Ana\u00efs Nin began writing the stories collected in\u00a0Under a Glass Bell\u00a0in Paris during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-books","7":"category-new-acquisitions"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}