Barnes, Djuna:. A Book. First Edition.. New York / Boni and Liveright,, 1923.

Price: US$176.78 + shipping

Description: 220 pp A very fine copy of this First Edition book. Black cardboards with original label on spine. Small chips on top and bottom of spine. Spine is very slightly faded. Text is absolutely perfect. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550

Seller: Antiquariat Willi Braunert, München, Germany

Barnes, Djuna. A BOOK. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1923.

Price: US$300.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition of this important landmark of lesbian literature. A collection of poetry, plays, short stories, and other prose, A BOOK was published while she was living in Paris on assignment from McCall's and led to Barnes being accused of being a lesbian - an accusation she famously "denied" by saying: "I'm not a lesbian, I just loved Thelma." The book was later revised as A NIGHT AMONG THE HORSES (1929) and SPILLWAY (1962). Publisher's original black paper boards with titled spine label. Lacking jacket. Frontis and five illustrated plates by Barnes. Toning to spine label. A spot or two of soil. Else sound.

Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.

Barnes, Djuna.. A Book.. Boni & Liveright Publishers, New York, 1923.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First Printing. A Near Fine copy in black paper covered boards, spine label, lacking the fragile dustwrapper. Label is darkened, but otherwise legible and unworn. 220pp. with six drawings by the author. Quite uncommon. Q14099

Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.

Barnes, Djuna. A Book. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1923.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Description: Includes scarce dust jacket HC good with owners inscription on front flyleaf, DJ has some chips along spine and edges and a larger chip at spine bottom but overall a tight copy

Seller: Carrington Bookshop, South Nyack, NY, U.S.A.

BARNES, Djuna.. A Book.. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1923, 1923.

Price: US$772.96 + shipping

Description: First edition, first printing, of the "first serious Barnes book" (Field, p. 17). This collection of poems, prose, plays, and sketches includes the story "A Night Among the Horses", which made Barnes's name among her expatriate peers in Paris. For this publication, she received her first accusations of lesbianism, which she later memorably denied with the statement, "I'm not a lesbian, I just loved Thelma". The collection was twice reissued with alternative titles and revised content, as A Night Among the Horses (1929) and Spillway (1962). Andrew Field, Djuna: The Life and Times of Djuna Barnes, 1983. Square octavo. Original dark blue boards, paper spine label, bottom edge untrimmed. With dust jacket. Frontispiece and 5 plates on grey paper stock after portrait sketches by the author. Rubbing to rear cover, couple of leaves with light foxing; jacket soiled and rubbed, shallow chips to edges, rear spine fold and a few closed tears neatly stabilized in places, unclipped: a very good copy in good jacket.

Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom