Ladies almanack : showing their signs and their tides, their moons and their changes, the seasons as it is with them, their eclipses and equinoxes, as well as a full record of diurnal and nocturnal distempers / written & illustrated by a lady of fashion.

Accession number

PML 184058

Creator

Barnes, Djuna.

Published

Paris : Printed for the author : sold by Edward W. Titus, 1928 (Dijon : Impr. Darantiere)

Credit line

The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.

Notes

Published anonymously. The author revealed her identity in a later ed. (New York : Harper & Row, 1972)
One of 1000 copies printed on Alfa paper. This is number 365.

Description

84 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm

Inscriptions/Markings

Bookseller's name and address crossed out in black ink on t.p. ; author's inscription on flyleaf: To W. Aspenwall Bradley with all best wishes [signed] Djuna Barnes 1932.

Provenance

Carter Burden.

Binding

Illustrated wrappers ; housed in a brick red cloth clamshell box with "Alamanack" misspelled as "Almanac" on box spine.

Classification

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Ladies almanack : showing their signs and their tides, their moons and their changes, the seasons as it is with them, their eclipses and equinoxes, as well as a full record of diurnal and nocturnal distempers / written & illustrated by a lady of fashion.