D. Barnes Nightwood, 1st U.S., T.S. Eliot intro
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Author: Barnes, Djuna
Title: Nightwood
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Harcourt, Brace and Company
Date Published: [1937]
Description:
Author: Barnes, Djuna
Title: Nightwood
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Harcourt, Brace and Company
Date Published: [1937]
Description:
xv, 211 pp. Introduction by T.S. Eliot. 20.5x14 cm (8x5½"), deep purple cloth, spine stamped in gilt, top edge stained purple, publisher‘s printed dust jacket. First U.S. edition.
Early example of lesbian literature, with explicit depiction of homosexuality between women. A modernist novel with gothic prose, it was praised by T.S. Eliot, who wrote the introduction which was first published in this edition. Scarce in jacket.
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Jacket worn at extremities with a couple chips, spine browned, corners clipped but price intact; volume bottom spine tip sunned, slight lean, a few spots to fore-edge; still a near fine copy in very good jacket.
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D. Barnes Nightwood, 1st U.S., T.S. Eliot intro
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