Women writers who have buried under the fame of the canonical writers of the Modernist era.
Greenwich & New York: The Dial, April 1923. Octavo. Bound in publisher's original salmon wraps printed in black. xvi,[2],329-432,xxviii pp. Plates, one tipped in. Usual oversized wrappers, else a fine copy. Barney's poem, which appears on pages 379-80, queries the usefulness of change for change's sake. NCB, as she was.....
New York: Simon & Schuster, [1948]. First edition. Original orange cloth, titles in black, signature block to front board in black. Pastedowns slightly darkened at gutters, lower edges a trifle shelf-worn, else a very good copy in a lightly edgeworn, hand-soiled pictorial dust jacket. First edition. A topic Boyle often.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962. First edition. Red cloth. Typography, binding, and dust jacket designed by Vincent Torre. Fine, in near fine dust jacket. First edition. This volume includes seventeen new poems, a selection of poems written in the 1920s and 30s, and an excerpt from her long wartime.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1936]. First edition. Pale green cloth, stamped in silver. Ownership signature and stamp of Boyle's publisher, James Laughlin [New Directions]. Tiny Gotham Book Mart label affixed to rear pastedown (upside down, as you would expect it to be). Spine sunned, else a near fine.....
London: Faber & Faber, [1946]. First edition. Gilt blue cloth. First British edition. Hunting love and the elusive fascist in post-war France. A near fine copy in a very good, lightly nicked and foxed typographic dust jacket.
![Item #315 A GLAD DAY [with Autograph Typescript Poem]. Kay BOYLE](https://secondwindbks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/315.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1675284400)
Norfolk: New Directions:, [1938]. First edition. Gilt red cloth. Minor darkening at edges of cloth, tiny rub to lower edge, otherwise fine in good, moderately chipped dust jacket with mends on verso. First edition, limited to 500 copies printed at the Rydal Press. Accompanied by a 6pp. clean typescript of.....
New York: New Directions, 1988. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Gilt cloth. First U.S. edition, clothbound issue. Edited with an introduction by Sandra Whipple Spanier. Issued in the New Directions Revived Modern Classics series. Fine, in a near fine pictorial dust jacket featuring Marcel Duchamp's "The Chess Game." HARRISON, NEWTH & CANDIDO.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1938]. First edition. Cloth. Discreet bookseller's label tipped in, cloth faded at the edges and head and toe of spine, but a good copy in a very worn, soiled and chipped dust jacket. First edition. A departure for Boyle, she serves up a kind.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1934]. First edition. Pale green cloth. Ownership signature of her future publisher, James Laughlin on front free endsheet. Spine and extremities of cloth faded, else very good, lacking the jacket. First edition. Epigram: "Knife will be my next bride." -- Laurence Vail. Dedicated to.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955. First edition. Yellow cloth. First edition. Slight foxing to endsheets at gutters, else a very good copy in edgeworn dust jacket. Dust jacket designed by Harry Ford.
London: Faber and Faber Ltd:, [1948]. First edition. Gilt cloth. Foreword. Offsetting to endsheets, old label mark to front free endsheet, else very good in two-color dust jacket with some bumps along top and bottom edges, smudges to both panels. First UK edition. Dedicated, in gratitude, to her friend Caresse.....
New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, [1930]. First edition. Cloth, and decorated boards, matching endsheets. The ownership signature of her occasional publisher, James Laughlin appears on the first free endsheet. Spine faded, light wear to corners and edges, but a good or better copy, lacking the dust jacket. First.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1936]. First edition. Blue cloth. Ownership inscription of Boyle's occasional publisher, James Laughlin on the front free endsheet. Boards and spine heavily sunned, else a very near fine copy, without the dust jacket. Seemingly scarce. First edition. A fine collection of short stories featuring.....
New York: Harrison Smith, 1932. First edition. Red cloth, stamped in gilt. Ownership inscription, dated the year of publication, of her future publisher James Laughlin [New Directions] on first free endsheet. Spine faded, else very good, lacking the jacket. First edition. Boyle's second novel, dedicated to the Italian-American poet.....
![Item #639 D. H. LAWRENCE: PILGRIM OF THE APOCALYPSE A CRITICAL STUDY BY [ ... ]. D. H. Lawrence,...](https://secondwindbks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/639.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1723493106)
New York: Grove Press, Inc., [1957]. Signed limited edition. Cloth and paper boards, gilt stamped. [4],xxii,118,[2] pp. Extensive introduction. Specially bound, limited edition of 100 copies, of which this is copy number 69, signed by the author. Minor sunning to very top and bottom of boards, else a fine, unmarked.....
London: Chatto & Windus, 1935. Octavo. Plum pebble cloth, gilt spine lettering. First edition. 119 pp. Spots along fore-edge, else very good in a very good dust jacket with spine lightly sunned. From the library of noted Bloomsbury collector William Beekman with his elegant bookplate affixed to the front pastedown. .
London: Chatto & Windus, 1924. First edition. Octavo. Plum and black cloth, paper spine label. T.e.g. Wood-engraved tile page vignette, dust jacket, and text illustrations by R. A. Garnett, the author's first wife. Very good, off-setting to endsheets, the book label of collector William Beekman, whose stunning Hogarth Press /.....
Hackney, London: The Stourton Press, 1988. Private, Limited Edition. Tall, thin octavo. Red cloth, gilt stamped spine. Frontispiece photograph of Rylands tipped-in. Privately printed for Lord Rothschild, limited edition № 32 of two hundred. Signed by Lord Rothschild on the Rylands photograph "Victor Rothschild," in black ink, and signed below.....
Camden & New York: The Dial, April 1927. Octavo. Bound in publisher's original salmon wraps printed in black. iv,[3],272-360,v-vii pp. Plates, frontis color plate by Paul Gauguin tipped in. Usual oversized wrappers, else a very fine, pristine copy. Lawrence's work appears here in its first publication on pages 287-301. Other.....
Camden & New York: The Dial, May 1929. Octavo. Bound in publisher's original salmon wraps printed in black. iv,[3],362-450,viii pp. Plates. Usual oversized wrappers, else a very fine copy. Lawrence's poem, which appears on pages 383-84, examines the modern reaction to bodies at play in its first appearance in print.....
Camden & New York: The Dial, July & August 1925. Octavo. Bound in publisher's original salmon wraps printed in black. Two issues. Plates, frontis color plates by Pierre Bonnard & Marie Laurencin tipped in. Usual oversized wrappers, else a very fine, pristine copies. The first appearance of this important Taos story.....
London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1950. First edition. Small octavo. Cloth boards, gilt spine. 86 pp. A slender book of essays and poetry, recipes, ghost stories, and songs, compiled by the poet Edith Sitwell mainly about the pleasures to be found in Winter. Cats are mentioned, as are spirits -.....
London: Dennis Dobson Ltd., [1950]. Small octavo. Lavender cloth. 332 pp. Reproduced by photolithography from the original Faber & Faber 1933 edition. Tiny bookseller's label on rear pastedown; very good or better, in a moderately worn dust jacket with a snag at the top edge. .
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927. Deep green buckram, gilt spine. [2],69,[1] pp. Half title, frontispiece by William F. Matthews printed in red, title page in black with red decorative borders. Most leaves unopened, which makes for a near fine copy, without dust jacket. First US edition. Edith Sitwell's poems.....
![Item #809 CHRISTMAS GREETINGS 1937 [with] NEW JERSEY FARM CHRISTMAS IMAGES. Monroe WHEELER,...](https://secondwindbks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/809.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1758156449)
Clinton, New Jersey: Monroe Wheeler, Christmas 1937. Privately printed holiday greeting designed and printed by Monroe Wheeler, featuring Glenway Wescott’s seasonal poem “New Jersey Farm Christmas Images,” laid in as a separate folded sheet and hand-signed in red ink by Wescott. Printed on handmade Guarro paper. The main card (28.....