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Nightwood

Title
Nightwood / Djuna Barnes.
Author
Barnes, Djuna
Publication
New York : New Directions, [between 1969-1970?]

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TextRestricted use Berg Coll 22-543Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320

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Additional Authors
  • Laughlin, James, 1914-1997
  • Kuhlman, Gilda
  • Kuhlman, Roy, 1923-2007
  • New Directions Publishing, publisher.
  • James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.
Description
xi-xvii, 170 pages; 21 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 Directions paperbook ; NDP98
Subject
  • Lesbians > Fiction
  • Sex addicts > Fiction
  • Lesbians
  • Sex addicts
Genre/Form
  • Psychological fiction.
  • Romans à clef.
  • Novels.
  • Lesbian fiction.
  • LGBTQ+ fiction.
  • Fiction.
Note
  • "A New Directions book" -- title page.
  • "New Directions Books are published for James Laughlin by New Directions Publishing Corporation" -- title page verso.
  • Publication date range based on latest date of titles included in the New Directions paperbook series at the back of volume.
Binding (note)
  • bound in publishers' original paperback binding with cover design by Gilda Kuhlman and Roy Kuhlman (photo).
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 22-543
OCLC
1355850403
Author
Barnes, Djuna, author.
Title
Nightwood / Djuna Barnes.
Publisher
New York : New Directions, [between 1969-1970?]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
New Directions paperbook ; NDP98
Binding
Copy in Berg Coll 22-543 bound in publishers' original paperback binding with cover design by Gilda Kuhlman and Roy Kuhlman (photo). NN
Local Note
Copy in Berg Coll 22-543 acquired from Leila and Daniel Javitch, 2021.
Copy in Berg Coll 22-543 is fifth printing of NDP98; price $1.50.
Added Author
Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, publisher.
Kuhlman, Gilda, cover designer.
Kuhlman, Roy, 1923-2007, photographer.
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 22-543
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