Ryder

New York, New York: Horace Liveright. Very Good with no Dust Jacket. 1928. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 323 pages: 6 x 8.25 in.: 2: KB#010633: Boards now protected by a new Brodart Archival Mylar Cover. First Edition, Limited, Copy - limited to 3,000 copies. No Dustjacket. Boards are dark blue with red print and gilt triangular emblem on front and red print on spine. Has prior owner's name (Harry Runyan) neatly written at top of front flyleaf. Otherwise, boards and pages are clean, unmarked, bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered (except for some small bent edges of a few back pages). Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. This is Barnes's second novel and it draws heavily on her childhood experiences in Cornwall-on-Hudson. It covers fifty years of history of the Ryder family and fragments of the Ryder family chronicle are interspersed with children's stories, songs, letters, poems, parables, and dreams. "When it was first published in 1928, Djuna Barnes's Ryder, a bawdy mock- Elizabethan chronicle of a family very much like her own, was described in the Saturday Review as 'the most amazing book ever written by a woman.' One of modern literature's first and best denunciations of patriarchal repression, Ryder employs an exuberant prose by which narrator Julie Ryder derides her hated father, polygamous Wendell Ryder. Barnes satirizes masculinity and domesticity by way of parable, poem, and play, and a prose style that echoes Chaucer, Shakespeare, the Bible, and Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy.": B&W Illustrations .