Research Catalog
Nightwood
- Title
- Nightwood / Djuna Barnes ; introduction by T. S. Eliot.
- Author
- Barnes, Djuna
- Publication
- Norfolk, Connecticut : New Directions, [1949]
- ©1937
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | MSS DIV IGIC FIC B25 | Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328 |
Not available - Please for assistance. | Text | Restricted use | Berg Coll 22-541 | Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- xvii pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 170 pages; 19 cm.
- Summary
- The story of Robin Vote and those she destroys -- her husband the "Baron," their child Guido, and the two women, Nora and Jenny, who love her; the whole illumined by the fantastic monologues of the renegade doctor, Matthew O'Connor.
- Series Statement
- New classics (New Directions Publishing Corp.)
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Romans à clef.
- Novels.
- Dust jackets (Binding) – New York (State) – New York – 1949.
- Note
- "Copyright 1937 by Harcourt, Brace & Company ; New Directions Books are published by James Laughlin" -- title page verso.
- Imprint from dust jacket; edition statement from introduction; date of publication from Harrison.
- Indexed In (note)
- Carruth, H. New Directions reader
- Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin
- Provenance (note)
- has typed label: "James Laughlin, Norfolk, Connecticut" front pastedown.
- Binding (note)
- bound in publishers' light green cloth; with original dust jacket designed by Alvin Lustig.
- Contents
- Introduction by T.S. Eliot -- Note to second edition -- Bow down -- La Somnambule -- Night watch -- "The squatter" -- Watchman, what of the night? -- Where the tree falls -- Go down, Matthew -- The possessed.
- Call Number
- MSS DIV IGIC FIC B25
- OCLC
- 1291619921
- Author
- Barnes, Djuna, author.
- Title
- Nightwood / Djuna Barnes ; introduction by T. S. Eliot.
- Publisher
- Norfolk, Connecticut : New Directions, [1949]
- Copyright Date
- ©1937
- Edition
- Second edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- New classics (New Directions Publishing Corp.)
- Indexed In:
- Carruth, H. New Directions reader, page 221Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin, page 15
- Provenance
- Copy in Berg Coll 22-541 has typed label: "James Laughlin, Norfolk, Connecticut" front pastedown. NN
- Binding
- Copy in Berg Coll 22-541 bound in publishers' light green cloth; with original dust jacket designed by Alvin Lustig. NN
- Local Note
- Copy in Berg Coll 22-541 acquired from Leila and Daniel Javitch, 2021.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965, writer of introduction.Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, publisher.Lustig, Alvin, 1915-1955, bookjacket designer.New Directions Publishing, publisher.Javitch, Leila Laughlin, donor.Javitch, Daniel, donor.Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, former owner.James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.
- Research Call Number
- Berg Coll 22-541MSS DIV IGIC FIC B25