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DJUNA: The Life and Work of Djuna Barnes.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - A biography which draws on interviews with Djuna Barnes's brother and unpublished letters, tracing the life and career of the early twentieth-century bisexual writer and friend to James Joyce and T. S. Eliot. "Herring traces her creative influences to gain a greater understanding of her writing, elucidating the ways in which her unusual life shaped her literary genius." Includes a chronology,extensive notes, a list of the works by Barnes, bibliography, index. xxvii, 386 pp. ISBN: 0-670849693.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 83739More details Price: $21.50 -
RUSSIAN BEAUTY.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Viking, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set in the Soviet Union, one which combines satire with brutal realism, eroticism with humor. Translated from the Russian by Andrew Reynolds. 343 pp. ISBN: 0-670836060.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 75924More details Price: $15.00 -
THE CAPTAIN'S FIRE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - The highly praised first novel (and second book, preceded by a collection of short stories) by a writer who was selected as a regional Granta novelist - a book which "reverberates between postwall Berlin and Milwaukee." 323 pp. ISBN: 0-679401849.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 88282More details Price: $18.50 -
SLIDES.
Edition: First printing.
London: Macdonald, (1971) dj. Hardcover first edition - True first edition of Plante's second novel, a twisted and compelling story about five friends who, as they live together and travel together, from Boston to Italy, slowly create a dark world of foreboding and shadow around themselves. Dust jacket illustrated by David Hockney. 208 pp. ISBN: 0-356035190.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 84867More details Price: $60.00