Anaïs Nin’s first published book, D. H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study (1932), was a typically radical work, defending an author few at the time were willing to champion. Rather than adopting the distance of literary criticism, Nin wrote as a devotee, allowing her fascination with Lawrence to come through. Published in a tiny run, the book has become a small but important piece of literary history – an early signal of the themes and instincts Nin would pursue throughout her own writing life.

This copy is the Swallow Press paperback, third printing, from the same small press that would later publish much of Nin’s work.