Ultra Rare with drawings , poems and daily toughts and accounts recorded -
Here collectors we have what we can call without mistaking the best Dennis Nilsen related item available for sale on the internet in the world as you read this right now.
This book shows different shift in Nilsen’s writing and mood since being arrested in February 1983. Parts of the diary is also written by his cell neighbour of the time as well. A one of kind 104 diary including great poems written by Dennis Nilsen is the middle of this book. if You find these two examples titled Trying and Silver Boy, where he clearly talks about two différent victims he killed and dissected in the month of April and November and that are haunting him. He scattered the bones after curing the appart boiling them and flushing parts of their flesh down the drain.
It is powerful and it gives you a rare glimpse into Dennis Nilsen’s mind and it goes like this:
Trying
I try to smile
Despite the vengeance looking at me.
Covered in your tomato paste
A man of many parts
I try to forget
Even the perfume of your passing
Lingers on.
More problems now
With all your bits and pieces
I try to run
And pinioned to this spot
In acres full of you,
Of dust and bones
I try to remember
All our going on
To tie up the systems
Neat finale.
I try to ween
With you looming large in my cell
Of problems to the grave
I try, I try
To unravel enigmas
And each way I turn
I’m still holding you.
I try to breach
The broken dreams that spring
On chivered ends.
I try to smile but your not smiling now
In April death is dead
And the new life lives
Upon our garbled inquest
Wow! Have you seen anything like this? That’s one poem signed at the end in a totally different bold writing that you can see copied here and revised Monday 10th April 1983. DENNIS ANDREW NILSEN - (the his unusual bolf writing and signature his more know and seen writhing and signature Dennis Nilsen. Remember he was arrested in February 1983 and this is April 1983 pre trial before his conviction.
Another example of a reflexion/ poem about a victim is
Silver Boy
I see my life,
In the eyes and the sights
Of the silver boy in November
They file past his bed as if he were dead
And refuse to even, remember.
It’s as if the person
Held him dead,
Unnisen. In deep space-black November
Initialed DN 7/11/83 - 7th of November 1983
Different shifts in handwritting on different pages totaling 104 pages.
Great drawings and different accounts and stories. So many pages I cannot put them all in auction pictures but there is drawings pointed out as being also different body positions, victim drawings done by himself. I would say the book is signed and I’ve seen at least 5 signatures minimum from Dennis Andrew Nilsen to Dennis Nilsen with also DN initials.
Recent letters from 2000-2015 typed with a Dennis signature are commanding 400-500$ as we speak. Anything handwritten is very rarely seen and pre trial letters are even more difficult to come by. There is even Nielsen’s arrival recorded inside this diary by his fellow neighbor. A pre trial and post trial diary journal with all the Informations like this one on 104 pages is just never came up for sale. I haven’t seen one before.