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by the editors in "Notes on Contributors" as "a young American artist and writer whose drawings are for the most part unpublished."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.....
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.....
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.
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, 1992. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Silk cloth and pictorial boards, printed paper spine label. First edition, limited issue. Number 15 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. Number 16 of 100 copies, specially bound, numbered 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.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Gilt blue cloth. Light offsetting caused by newspaper clipping to pp. 94-5 (author's 1973 NYT obit), otherwise about fine in a moderately spine-darkened printed dust jacket with the author's photo and a small biography (some of which is repeated verbatim from.....
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.....
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.....