Sale 2514 - The Pride Sale, June 20, 2019

36  DJUNA BARNES (1892-1982) 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 Distempters. Written & Illustrated by A Lady of Fashion. 84, [4] pp. Frontispiece, title-page vignette and 21 illustrations by the author, all hand- colored. Small 4to, publisher’s plain cream wrappers, top edges faintly toned, light rubbing to head and foot of backstrip, unopened but for first few leaves; prospectus laid in. Paris: privately printed, 1928. [400/600] first edition , number 390 of 1000 copies . Unusually fine example, and with the commonly blacked-out statement “Sold by Edward W. Titus, 4 rue Delambre, at the Sign of the Black Manikin” unobscured. 36 37 c DJUNA BARNES (1892-1982) 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 Distempters. Written & Illustrated by A Lady of Fashion. 84, [4] pp. Frontispiece, title-page vignette and 21 illustrations by the author, all hand-colored. Small 4to, publisher’s plain cream wrappers; illustrated and hand-colored parchment French-fold dust jacket, some occasional small f lecks and faint fading, original glassine outer jacket (tanned and chipped, preserved in four fragments) and presumed original glassine sleeve; browning confined to extreme outer edges of contents, light smudging to endleaves, illustrations bright, publisher’s prospectus laid in; preserved in custom cloth folding case. Paris: Printed for the Author, and Sold by Edward W. Titus, 1928. [10,000/15,000] exceedingly rare limited edition , the deluxe issue , number 9 of 10 copies signed by the author anonymously as “A Lady of Fashion” on Vergé de Vidalon. Additionally inscribed by Barnes to her literary executor, “For Hank O’Neal - / from Djuna Barnes / with affection - / N.Y. 1979” on front free endpaper. Includes a 1 page typescript, “New page for Ladies Almanack,” heavily edited in red ink by Barnes, possibly prepared for the 1972 Harper & Row facsimile edition. A landmark title in lesbian literature, with no other copies of the deluxe issue appearing at auction according to Rare Book Hub and ABPC.