Research Catalog

Title

Nightwood / Djuna Barnes.

Author

Barnes, Djuna

Publication

New York : New Directions, [between 1962 and 1964]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965
• Laughlin, James, 1914-1997
• New Directions Publishing, publisher.
• James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.

Description

xi-xvii, 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.

Subject

• Lesbians > Fiction
• Sex addicts > Fiction
• Lesbians
• Sex addicts

Genre/Form

• Psychological fiction.
• Lesbian fiction.
• Dust jackets (Binding) – New York (State) – New York – 1962.
• LGBTQ+ fiction.
• Fiction.

Note

• "A New Directions book" -- title page.
• "New Directions Books are published by James Laughlin at Norfolk, Connecticut" -- title page verso.
• "... First published in the United States by Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1937. Second American edition published by New Directions, 1946. First published as New Directions paperbook No. 98, 1961 ..." -- title page verso.
• Publication date range based on imprint and date of publication of book advertised on dust jacket flap (1962).
• Not in Carruth or Harrison; Mitterli cites a 1963 New Directions edition, but does not provide description.

Binding (note)

• bound in publishers' light green cloth; with original printed blue dust jacket; blue endpapers.

Contents

Introduction by T.S. Eliot -- Bow down -- La somnambule -- Night watch -- "The squatter" -- Watchman, what of the night? -- Where the tree falls -- Go down, Matthew -- The possessed.

Call Number

Berg Coll 22-542

OCLC

1355848224

Author

Barnes, Djuna, author.

Title

Nightwood / Djuna Barnes.

Publisher

New York : New Directions, [between 1962 and 1964]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Binding

Copy in Berg Coll 22-542 bound in publishers' light green cloth; with original printed blue dust jacket; blue endpapers. NN

Local Note

Copy in Berg Coll 22-542 acquired from Leila and Daniel Javitch, 2021.

Added Author

Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965, writer of introduction.

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, publisher.

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.

LCCN

49001384

Research Call Number

Berg Coll 22-542