The Antiphon

  • London: Faber and Faber, 1958
By BARNES, Djuna
London: Faber and Faber, 1958. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (23cm). Original heliotrope cloth, with light blue dust jacket; plain endpapers; 127pp; publisher's ads to jacket rear and rear flap. A straight, tight copy with light edgewear, foxing to edges of textblock not affecting interior, browning to endpapers, else clean: Very Good. Jacket unclipped (priced 18s), minor browning to spine, flap folds, and front edges, small tear at upper front corner neatly mended with tape to verso, some browning to verso: Very Good.

A stylized tragedy about toxic family dynamics by one of the great Modernist writers. MESSERLI 7.

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