Ryder; with illustrations by the author

Barnes, Djuna

New York: Horace Liverwright, 1928. Hardcover. 323p., illustrations, one of 3,000 copies, very good first US edition (expurgated) in blue cloth boards with red and gilt titles and triangle design in poor, heavily chipped and torn price-clipped dust jacket, large section missing from upper-front panel and head of spine.

The US edition was censored by the USPS so Barnes added asterisks where illustrations or text deemed too risqué by mailmen were expurgated. Barnes' first novel, fourth book. Messerli 4.

Cat.No: 216634

Price: $150.00