Literary Women
New York: The Dial, 1920. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Printed wrappers. Plates. March, 1920. Yapped edges. A lovely copy, near fine. Djuna Barnes is described by the editors in "Notes on Contributors" as "a young American artist and writer whose drawings are for the most part unpublished." Her contributed drawing.....
Sun & Moon Press, 1982. Author. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Black cloth, gilt spine. First edition. Edited, with an introduction by Douglas Messerli. First published in periodicals and newspapers from 1914-1916, these fourteen tales have never before appeared in book form. Illustrations by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.....
New York: Frank Hallman, 1974. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Gilt white cloth. A fine coppy, without printed dust jacket, as issued. First edition in this format of two pieces first published in CARAVEL and THE DOUBLE DEALER. This edition, designed by Ronald Gordon and printed at The Stinehour Press, consists.....
New York: Putnam, 1977. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Salmon cloth, stamped in gilt art deco design. Fifty black & white photographs. Fine, in very good, lightly sunned, dust jacket. First edition. Born to enormous American wealth, Barney conducted an international salon in Paris for over sixty years which was frequented by.....
[London: Riccardi Press for the Medici Society, Ltd., 1914]. Limited edition. Slim octavo. Publisher's linen-backed paper boards, lettered in gilt. T.e.g. First edition, thus. Edition limited to 1000 copies printed on handmade Riccardi paper; the copies were numbered yet this copy is unnumbered (writer's fatigue?). Initial page of the sonnets.....
New York: G. P. Putnam's, 1968. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Gilt purple cloth. First American edition. Translated from the French by Patrick O'Brian. Bookplate on half-title, else very good in a moderately worn dust jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
Hogarth House Richmond, Printed and published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1923. Five Bloomsberries in One Dish Quarto. Original decorated white paper boards, printed in black. First edition, handprinted. 25,[1]pp. 10¼ x 7 in. Frontispiece and tailpiece drawings by Duncan Grant, cover and headpiece by Vanessa.....
Poughkeepsie, NY: Vassar College Art Gallery, September 20 - October 28, 1984. First edition. Pictorial and printed wrappers. First edition. 47,[1]pp. Twenty plates, four in color, several full-page. Exhibition catalogue prepared to accompany an exciting presentation of Bell's work, many items for this exhibition were found to be in the.....
Sheffield: Sheffield City Art Galleries, 1979. Pictorial stapled deep blue wrappers. First edition. Forward by Frank Constantine; twelve page introduction by Frances Spalding, with notes. Forty-six items are listed in the exhibition; list of over seventeen book jackets, their original designs for Virginia Woolf and others, along with a selection.....
London: Chatto & Windus / The Hogarth Press, [1984]. Octavo. Bright green cloth boards, gilt spine. 181 pp. Black & white family photo illustrations. Remainder mark at top edge, neat gift inscription to front pastedown, else near fine, in a price-clipped pictorial dust jacket with lovely illustrations by the author.First.....
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1992. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Silk cloth and pictorial boards, printed paper spine label. First edition, limited issue. Number 12 of 125 numbered copies, specially bound, and signed by the author. Author's biography and photograph at the conclusion of the text. Fine, in an equally fine.....
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 2000. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Silk cloth and pictorial boards, printed paper spine label. First edition, limited issue. Letter R of only 22 signed copies lettered A-V, hand bound in boards by Earle Gray. Author's biography and photograph at the conclusion of the text. Fine, in.....
New York: Knopf, 1949. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Gilt cloth. Small stain to top edge, else near fine in a bright dust jacket with a scattering of a few rubbed areas. First American edition. Bowen was an Anglo-Irish writer who, although she lived primarily in England, maintained a large family estate.....
New York: Lincoln Mac Veagh / The Dial Press, 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Black embossed cloth, paper spine label. Violet silk endpapers with images of a soaring Phoenix. Ink ownership and date on half-title, front hinge ever so slightly weak, otherwise a very good copy in a very good dust.....
New York: Knopf, 1936. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Gilt and blind-stamped red cloth. First U.S. edition. Printed in black with red decorative chapter heads. Neat, early ownership signature on front free endsheet, otherwise a fine copy in a very good pictorial dust jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
London: Longman's, Green and Co., 1943. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Gilt burgundy cloth. Ink inscription to the front free endpaper, else very good in a good dust jacket with a darkened spine panel and very shallow loss to spine ends. First trade edition, preceded by the Cuala Press edition.Bowen was an.....
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.
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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: Whittlesey House/McGraw-Hill, [1949]. First edition. Gilt green cloth. Pale stain at fore-edge, edges lightly rubbed, else very good, in a full-color pictorial dust jacket by Adolf Dehn, with a tanned spine and a few nicks. First edition. Men training in the mountains of Colorado as members of the.....
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.....