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 [Offered with Prospectus]
- Paris: Printed for the Author, and sold by Edward W. Titus, 4 rue Delambre, at the sign of the Black Manikin, 1928
Paris: Printed for the Author, and sold by Edward W. Titus, 4 rue Delambre, at the sign of the Black Manikin, 1928. Very Good. Paris: Printed for the Author, and sold by [Edward W. Titus, 4 rue Delambre, at the sign of the Black Manikin], 1928. First Edition, limited issue of 1050 copies, this being #56. Quarto. 84, [4]pp. Woodcuts by Barnes, done in an Elizabethan style. Illustrated wraps. Laid in prospectus; 4pp.; illus. Publisher information redacted and supplied by OCLC. Light wear and soiling, chipped at spine ends with loss to top of spine. Binding sound. Spotting to preliminaries; many gatherings uncut; interior else unmarked.
A Very Good copy of Barnes' picaresque fantasy centering around Natalie Barney's predominantly lesbian social circle. Told in a bawdy Rabelaisian style and full of wordplay, the work features and lampoons, pseudonymously, Radclyffe Hall, Janet Flanner, Solita Solano, and Mina Loy, among others.
"Ladies Almanack" was published the same year as Hall's "The Well of Loneliness," Woolf's "Orlando," and several other works , leading scholar Susan S. Lanser to call 1928 "the literal and metonymic high point of sapphic modernism." Even from this high point of queer modernism, "Ladies Almanack" stands out, with the NYU Press calling it "the most audacious Lesbian text of its time." Uncommon in retail.
References: Susan S. Lanser. "1928: Sapphic Modernity and the Sexuality of History," in "Modernism/Modernity," Volume 1, Cycle 3.
Brian Glavey. "Modernity and Other Nocturnal Distempers" in "Modernism/Modernity," Volume 1, Cycle 3.
A Very Good copy of Barnes' picaresque fantasy centering around Natalie Barney's predominantly lesbian social circle. Told in a bawdy Rabelaisian style and full of wordplay, the work features and lampoons, pseudonymously, Radclyffe Hall, Janet Flanner, Solita Solano, and Mina Loy, among others.
"Ladies Almanack" was published the same year as Hall's "The Well of Loneliness," Woolf's "Orlando," and several other works , leading scholar Susan S. Lanser to call 1928 "the literal and metonymic high point of sapphic modernism." Even from this high point of queer modernism, "Ladies Almanack" stands out, with the NYU Press calling it "the most audacious Lesbian text of its time." Uncommon in retail.
References: Susan S. Lanser. "1928: Sapphic Modernity and the Sexuality of History," in "Modernism/Modernity," Volume 1, Cycle 3.
Brian Glavey. "Modernity and Other Nocturnal Distempers" in "Modernism/Modernity," Volume 1, Cycle 3.