Hardcover. NY, Horace Liveright, 2nd pr., 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped in red and gilt, 323 pages. Red topstain, with no dust jacket. B&w illustrations by the author. Copyright page states: Second printing, September 1928. The first printing was in August. Barnes played an important part in the development of 20th century English language modernist writing and was one of the key figures in 1920s and 30s bohemian Paris after filling a similar role in the Greenwich Village in the teens. Ryder draws heavily on her childhood experiences in Cornwall-on-Hudson. It covers 50 years of her family's history. Fragments of the Ryder family chronicle are interspersed with children's stories, songs, letters, poems, parables, and dreams. The book changes style from chapter to chapter, parodying writers from Chaucer to Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Spine darkened, light shelf-wear. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
