Djuna Barnes.
 
Djuna Barnes, sold by Edward W. Titus, Paris: 1928. Octavo. First, limited edition; this is copy number 804 out of a thousand that were printed. Includes a TLS written from Barnes to the feminist intellectual biographer Carolyn Burke (then Carolyn Greenstein). French folds and flaps over paper wraps. Minor soiling to the covers and modest rubbing to the ends of the spine. Mild foxing to scattered pages of the text block. Considering the age, a surprisingly well-preserved copy that belonged to the Mina Loy biographer Carolyn Burke. TLS enclosed in its original envelope. The letter from Barnes is an apology for being unable to assist Carolyn any further on her forthcoming work on Mina Loy, who appears under a pseudonym in the Ladies Almanack. Very good.
 
" . . . this Almanack, which all ladies should carry about with them, as the Priest his Breviary, as the Cook his Recipes, as the Doctor his Physic, as the Bride her Fears, and as the Lion his Roar!"