TELBERG, Val. Anais Nin, House of Incest, Chicago: Swallow Press, 1961. Softcover, 8 x 5-3/8 inches, 72 pages, 9 halftone illustrations. French-born Anais Nin was heralded as a diarist and writer of erotic literature. House of Incest, initially published in 1936 as her first book of fiction, was told from the writer's subconscious, as she tried to escape from a dream in which she was trapped. Telberg's photomontages were well paired with the surrealistic text; they show female figures superimposed with architectural interiors or natural subjects such as water and clouds. It seems that Telberg's imagery appeared with only the 1958 and 1961 Swallow Press printings of the book. Russian-born Vladimir Telberg-von-Teleheim (1910 -1995) was known for his multiple imagery, often making montaged, solarized, and kaleidoscopic photographs. Light edge wear to covers.

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