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MP3 Audio CD. A Night Among the Horses, by Djuna Barnes (in Lavender Lit 101 - International LGB Literature up to 1923 ) From The Little Review Toward dusk, in the summer of the year, a man dressed in a frock coat and top hat, and carrying a cane, crept through the underbrush bordering the corral of the Buckler farm. As he moved small twigs snapped, fell and were silent. His knees were green from wounded shrubbery and grass, and his outspread hands tore unheeded plants. His wrists hurt him and he rested from time to time, always caring for his hat and knotted yellow cane, blowing through his moustache. Dew had been falling covering the twilight leaves like myriad faces, damp with the perspiration of the struggle for existence, and half a mile away, standing out against the darkness of the night, a grove of white birches shimmered, like teeth in a skull. He heard the creaking of a gate, and the splashing of late rain into the depths of a dark cistern. His heart ached with the nearness of the… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. A Night Among the Horses, by Djuna Barnes (in Lavender Lit 101 - International LGB Literature up to 1923 ) From The Little Review Toward dusk, in the summer of the year, a man dressed in a frock coat and top hat, and carrying a cane, crept through the underbrush bordering the corral of the Buckler farm. As he moved small twigs snapped, fell and were silent. His knees were green from wounded shrubbery and grass, and his outspread hands tore unheeded plants. His wrists hurt him and he rested from time to time, always caring for his hat and knotted yellow cane, blowing through his moustache. Dew had been falling covering the twilight leaves like myriad faces, damp with the perspiration of the struggle for existence, and half a mile away, standing out against the darkness of the night, a grove of white birches shimmered, like teeth in a skull. He heard the creaking of a gate, and the splashing of late rain into the depths of a dark cistern. His heart ached with the nearness of the… Read More

New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. The first novel by Djuna Barnes (1892-1982). Barnes, a poet, playwright, and artist, was a member of the Parisian modernist group that included Joyce and Stein. Now a bit of a lesbian icon, her literary reputation was made seven years later with "Nightwood." This is a Very Good copy, lacking a dustjacket. Orange paper-covered boards with a black cloth spine. Clean text; 257 pages, with two pages of poetry as a coda at the end. Contemporary (dated 1929) inscriptions and a small label on the FFEP. Light soiling and very mildly bumped. The original lettering on the spine is faint, and there are two small tears at the edges. Still, a solid copy if not a beautiful one, and uncommon today. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. Hardcover. viii, 259p., first revised edition of "A Book" wear to the corner edges and very light dust soiling to top edge otherwise a very good first edition in black quarter-cloth over orange boards, gilt titles on spine still quite bright and readable, clear mylar jacket added. Messerli 5. A revised edition of Barnes' second book and first full-length publication by a major publishing house, "A Book" published in 1923 includes plays, short stories and poems and adds three more stories but does not include the illustrations from the original. Grier A* B* C**.