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1 Djuna Barnes Between the Covers

2 Between the Covers Rare Books, inc. 112 Nicholson Road (856) Gloucester City, NJ Djuna Barnes A selection from our shelves The books in this list (and similar items) can be found on our website by searching for Djuna Barnes in the Author or Title Search field on the right side of our banner. You can also view larger, color images of these books individually by typing in each book s BTC Product ID into the search field of our Advanced Search page. The BTC Product ID is the number shown in this catalogue at the end of each book s description and before its price. For example, the BTC Product ID for the first book in this list is Some books may be available but not appear on our website if you are unable to locate an item of interest please contact us. Terms of Sale All books are First Editions unless otherwise noted. All books are returnable within ten days if returned in the same condition as sent. Books may be reserved by telephone, fax, or . Payment should accompany order if you are unknown to us. Customers known to us will be invoiced with payment due in 30 days. Payment schedule may be adjusted for larger purchases. Institutions will be billed to meet their requirements. We accept VISA, MASTERCARD, AMERICAN EXPRESS and DISCOVER. N.J. residents please add 7% sales tax. Please include $5.00 postage for the first item, $2.00 for each item thereafter. Overseas orders will be sent airmail at cost (unless other arrangements are requested). All items are insured. All items subject to prior sale. Members ABAA, ILAB Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc

3 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX BARNES, Djuna. The Book of Repulsive Women: 8 Rhythms and 5 Drawings. New York: Guido Bruno First edition. Stapled printed wrappers. Fine. A beautiful copy of the author's fragile first book. # $1000 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX BARNES, Djuna. The Book of Repulsive Women. Yonkers: Alicat Bookshop Press (1948). Reprint of the author's 1915 first book. Bound upside down, else fine in stapled wrappers. One of 1000 copies. # $50 X XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (Anthology) BRAITHWAITE, William Stanley, editor. Anthology of Magazine Verse for Boston: Small, Maynard (1920). First edition. Corners a little bumped, else about fine lacking the scarce dustwrapper. This copy Inscribed by Braithwaite, as well as by the dedicatee, Boston bookseller Andrew McCants. Contributors include Walter Adolphe Roberts, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Edgar Lee Masters, Carl Sandburg, Edith Wharton, Robert Frost and Djuna Barnes. # $300 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX X BARNES, Djuna. A Book. New York: Boni and Liveright (1923). First edition. Illustrated by the author. A good copy with some wear to the spine ends, and a clipping affixed to the rear pastedown, without dustwrapper. Tiny blindstamp of author Glenway Wescott and his companion Monroe Wheeler. Signed by Wescott: "to be returned to G. Wescott. Stone blossom, Hampton N.J." # $300

4 (Anthology) (HEMINGWAY, Ernest). Transatlantic Stories: Selected from the Transatlantic Review. New York: The Dial Press First edition. Introduction by Ford Madox Ford. About fine in an attractive, very good dustwrapper with shallow chipping at the spine ends and some professional and invisible strengthening of the flap folds. Includes an early contribution by Ernest Hemingway ("A Story"), as well as stories by John Dos Passos, Dorothy Richardson, Donald Stewart, Djuna Barnes and others. Scarce in jacket. # $250 BARNES, Djuna. Ryder. New York: Horace Liveright First edition. Illustrated. Very good with spotting around the boards and tidemarks around the bottom edges, foredge, and top edge of the textblock and boards. # $25 BARNES, Djuna. Ryder. (Elmwood Park): Dalkey Archive Press (1990). Reissue. Afterword by Paul West. Near fine with a tidemark on the foredge in glossy wrappers. # $16

5 X XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Djuna Barnes s (and Gertrude Stein's) Only Jacket Blurbs FORD, Charles and Parker Tyler. The Young and Evil. Paris: Obelisk Press (1933). First edition. Self-wrappers. Brown butcher paper wrappers printed in red. A very good or better copy that is a trifle cocked, and with small tears and nicks at the spine ends. A notorious and exceptionally scarce novel of homosexual life in Greenwich Village. Parker met Ford while writing for Ford s amateurly produced Blues magazine, which was published in Ford's parents' home in Mississippi during Tyler encouraged him to move to New York and there they spent a year exploring the gay subcultures of Greenwich Village and Harlem before writing the book. Considered by some to be the first modern gay novel, Gertrude Stein called this book The novel that beat the Beat Generation by a generation. The front flap of the self-wrapper has blurbs by Stein and Djuna Barnes; according to the Phoenix Book Shop as quoted by G. Thomas Tanselle in his 1971 paper "Book-Jackets, Blurbs, and Bibliographers": "We know for a fact that this is the only dust-wrapper blurb contributed by Miss Stein during her life-time & it is very likely also true of Miss Barnes's." # $5,500 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX BARNES, Djuna. Nightwood. London: Faber and Faber (1936). Uncorrected proof. Yellow printed wrappers. A trifle soiled, a near fine copy. # $1,500

6 BARNES, Djuna. Nightwood. New York, New York: New Classics (1937). First American edition. Very good with a little water damage to the outer covers not affecting the text block, in an almost very good dustwrapper with some water tide lines and chips along the edges. # $150 BARNES, Djuna. Nightwood: The Original Version and Related Drafts. (Normal, Illinois): Dalkey Archive Press (1995). Uncorrected proof. Soiling, sticker shadow and a small tear thus very good in wrappers. Publisher's prospectus laid in. # $35 (Anthology) ANDERSON, Sherwood, Djuna Barnes, Hart Crane, T.S. Eliot, Ben Hecht, Ernest Hemingway, Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, William Butler Yeats. The Litter Review Anthology. New York: Hermitage House, Inc First edition. Edited by Margaret Anderson. Fine with light offsetting on the front end papers in very good dustwrapper with a tape-repaired tear on the front panel. # $30

7 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX BARNES, Djuna. The Antiphon. London: Faber and Faber (1957). Uncorrected proof. Printed wrappers. Near fine with light wear to the wrappers. # $200 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX BARNES, Djuna. The Antiphon. New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy (1958). First American edition. Near fine with light offsetting to endpapers in a very good dustwrapper with the spine lightly yellowed and small nicks to spine ends. # $20 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX BARNES, Djuna. The Antiphon: A Play. New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy (1958). First American edition. Slight sunning near the spine ends, very good in good dustwrapper, with small chips, tears and a small piece of tape on the spine. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in. # $20 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX X Ramparts The National Catholic Journal Volume 1 Number 3 November Menlo Park, California: Layman's Press First edition. Near fine with light soiling on the covers, in wrappers. Includes a poem by Djuna Barnes. # $40

8 BARNES, Djuna. The Selected Works of Djuna Barnes. New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy First edition. Fine in slightly rubbed, else near fine dustwrapper with a small ink price on the front flap. This volume collects Spillway, The Antiphon, and Nightwood. # $45 BARNES, Djuna. Spillway and Other Stories. London: Faber and Faber (1962). First edition with this title, and in this exact form. Fine in fine dustwrapper. # $75 BARNES, Djuna. Spillway and Other Stories. New York: Harper Colophon First Harper Colophon edition. Fine in wrappers. # $25 Prose: Number Two, Spring New York: Prose Publishers First edition. Printed wrappers. Yapped edges have short tears, spine tanned, else very good. Contributors: Margaret Anderson, Djuna Barnes, Renaud Charles Bruce, Edward Dahlberg, John Hollander, Edgar Kaufmann, Jr., James Merrill, Richard H.R. Smithies, Parker Tyler, Glenway Wescott, and Charles Wuorinen. # $18

9 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX BARNES, Djuna as A Lady of Fashion. Ladies Almanack. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers (1972). Later printing. Fine in fine dustwrapper. The early 20th Century's most notorious example of underground lesbian literature. # $35 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX BARNES, Djuna. Ladies Almanack. New York: New York University Press (1992). Reissue of the 1928 edition to coincide with Djuna's 100th birthday. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. Advance review copy with publisher's slip laid in. # $10 X XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (Gay/Lesbian) BARNES, Djuna. Ladies Almanack. Elmwood Park, Illinois: Dalkey Press First edition. Fine in pictorial wrappers. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. # $14 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX X BARNES, Djuna. Vagaries Malicieux: Two Stories. New York: Frank Hallman First edition. Very slightly cocked, else fine, lacking the uncommon dustwrapper. One of 500 numbered copies. # $75

10 BARNES, Djuna. To The Dogs. (Rochester, New York): The Press of the Good Mountain First edition. Small octavo. Accordion-folded leaves in marbled boards. Fine in fine slipcase. One of 85 numbered copies printed on Tovil paper, out of a total edition of 110 copies printed. # $150 BARNES, Djuna. Creatures in an Alphabet. New York: The Dial Press (1982). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. # $25 BARNES, Djuna. Smoke and Other Early Stories. College Park, Maryland: Sun & Moon Press (1982). Edited with an introduction by Douglas Messerli. Afterword by Kay Boyle. Fine in a fine dustwrapper. # $16 BARNES, Djuna. Smoke and Other Early Stories. London: Virago Press First British edition. Edited with an introduction by Douglas Messerli. Afterword by Kay Boyle. Near fine in wrappers. # $13

11 X XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (biography) FIELD, Andrew. Djuna: The Life And Times Of Djuna Barnes. New York: J.P. Putnam First edition. Fine in a fine dustwrapper. # $22 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX FIELD, Andrew. Djuna: The Formidable Miss Barnes. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press (1985). First edition. Near fine with very light edgewear, in wrappers. # $25 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX BARNES, DJUNA. Interviews. Washington, D. C.: Sun and Moon Press (1985). First edition. Edited by Alyce Barry and foreword by Douglas Messerli. Bottom corners on cover lightly bumped, else fine in fine dustwrapper. Interviews with James Joyce, Lilliam Russell, Diamond Jim Brady, Coco Chanel, David Belasco, Kiki, D. W. Griffith, Mother Jones, Billy Sunday, Flo Ziegfeld, Lunt and Fontanne, and many others. # $40 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX BARNES, Djuna. Ah My God: The Lament of Women. (Périgueux): Le Nouveau Commerce (1987). First edition. Portrait of the author after Man Ray. Cord-tied wrappers. Unopened. Fine. One of 500 numbered copies. # $100

12 (Authors) O'NEAL, Hank. Life is Painful, Nasty and Short In My Case it Has Only Been Painful and Nasty: Djuna Barnes, New York: Paragon House First edition. 8vo. Fine in a dustwrapper with a sunned spine, light soiling, else fine. Review copy with publisher's letter laid in. # $18 KAIVOLA, Karen. All Contraries Confounded: The Lyrical Fiction of Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, and Marguerite Duras. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press (1991). First edition. Glossy wrappers. Fine. # $15 BROE, Mary Lynn, edited by. Silence and Power: A Reevaluation of Djuna Barnes. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press (1991). First edition. Afterword by Catharine Stimpson. Fine in fine dustwrapper. # $35 BARNES, Djuna. The Review of Contemporary Fiction Volume 13 Number 3 Fall Normal, Illinois: Illinois State University First edition. Near fine with lightly age toned wrappers. # $14

13 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX DeSALVO, Louise. Conceived with Malice: Literature as Revenge in the Lives and Works of Virginia and Leonard Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, Djuna Barnes and Henry Miller. (New York: Dutton 1994). Uncorrected proof. Near fine in lightly soiled wrappers. # $20 X XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (BARNES, Djuna). MESSERLI, Douglas, edited and with an introduction by. Poe's Mother: Selected Drawings of Djuna Barnes. Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press First edition. Illustrated. Fine in a near fine dustwrapper with very light wear. # $50 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX X HERRING, Phillip. Djuna: The Life and Work of Djuna Barnes. (No Place - New York): Viking (1995). Uncorrected proof. Minor soiling to the bottom edge thus near fine in glossy wrappers. # $25

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