Oct 16, 2008 - Sale 2157

Sale 2157 - Lot 1

Price Realized: $ 330
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
BARNES, DJUNA. The Book of Repulsive Women. 5 plates illustrating 8 "rhythms." 8vo, original stapled wrappers, vertical stain on front cover; additional markings on endpapers. New York: Bruno Chap Books, 1915

Additional Details

first edition of barnes's first book. Janet Flanner named Barnes "the most important woman writer we had in Paris"-- That Was Paris, The New Yorker, March 11, 1972, p. 32; Messerli 3; Ford, Published in Paris, pp.131-2.