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The Book of Repulsive Women: 8 Rhythms and 5 Drawings.
by Djuna Barnes
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 1557131732
- ISBN 13
- 9781557131737
- Seller
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Oregon City, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Los Angeles, CA Sun and Moon Press, 1994. Paperback Second Sun & Moon Edition (1994), so stated. First Printing thus with the addition of an Introduction by Douglas Messerli and Biographical Material, indicated by a complete numerical sequence. First published in 1915. The First Sun & Moon Edition was published in 1989 as part of its 20 Pages Series. Near Fine in Wraps: shows only the most minute indications of use: just a hint of wear to the lower front corner tip and a bit of shelf-soiling to the bottom edge of the text block; a former bookseller's inventory sticker at the bottom corner of the rear panel; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creases to the panels. Free of creases to the backstrip. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, notations, or marginalia. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing a minor imperfection. Bright and clean. Very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. (7.45 x 5 x 0.15 inches). 36 pages. Illustrated in black & white. Edited with an Introduction by Douglas Messerli. Language: English. Weight: 1.7 ounces. Sun & Moon Classics Series 59. Second Sun & Moon Edition (1994), so stated. First Printing thus with the addition of an Introduction by Douglas Messerli and Biographical Material, indicated by a complete numerical sequence. First published in 1915. The First Sun & Moon Edition was published in 1989 as part of its 20 Pages Series. Trade Paperback. . Djuna Barnes (1892 1982) was an American artist, illustrator, journalist, and writer who is perhaps best known for her novel Nightwood (1936), a cult classic of lesbian fiction and an important work of modernist literature. By early 1914, Barnes was a highly sought feature reporter, interviewer, and illustrator whose work appeared in the city's leading newspapers and periodicals. Later, Barnes's talent and connections with prominent Greenwich Village bohemians afforded her the opportunity to publish her prose, poems, illustrations, and one-act plays in both avant-garde literary journals and popular magazines, and publish an illustrated volume of poetry, The Book of Repulsive Women (1915). She had come into contact with Guido Bruno, an entrepreneur and promoter who published magazines and chapbooks from his garret on Washington Square. Bruno had a reputation for unscrupulousness, and was often accused of exploiting Greenwich Village residents for profithe used to charge tourists admission to watch Bohemians paintbut he was a strong opponent of censorship and was willing to risk prosecution by publishing Barnes's 1915 collection of "rhythms and drawings" Despite a description of sex between women in the first poem, the book was never legally challenged; the passage seems explicit now, but at a time when lesbianism was virtually invisible in American culture, the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice may not have understood its imagery...
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- Seller
- Black Cat Hill Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 57225
- Title
- The Book of Repulsive Women: 8 Rhythms and 5 Drawings.
- Author
- Djuna Barnes
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Sun & Moon Edition (1994), so stated. First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 1557131732
- ISBN 13
- 9781557131737
- Publisher
- Sun and Moon Press,
- Place of Publication
- Los Angeles, CA
- Date Published
- 1994.
- Bookseller catalogs
- General Fiction; Women; American; America; Feminist;
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