Ryder

by Djuna Barnes

$650 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition · Signed

New York: Horace Liveright, 1928. First edition, first printing. Signed by Djuna Barnes on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's royal blue cloth stamped in red and gilt; red topstain. Good, crudely rebacked with clumsy repairs to corners and upper board right edge. Slight lean to spine, cloth soiled, gilt mostly all rubbed. Contents tanned and with markings to title page and foreword. Barnes' first novel, a modernist

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