BARNES, Djuna (1892?1982). Ryder. New York: Horace Liveright, 1928. 8vo. Illustrated with full-page plates including frontispiece by the author. Publisher?s blue cloth stamped in gilt and lettered in red (small worm hole to spine panel), red top edge; original dust jacket with $3.00 price sticker affixed to front flap (spine panel faded, old tape repairs to verso of jacket along spine ends and upper edge, small tear to lower panel). FIRST EDITION, one of 3000 copies. Author?s first novel that was heavily censored during publication to which the author added asterisks to mark the changes or ?where sense, continuity, and beauty have been damaged?. In 1979, Barnes declined the opportunity to restore the censored passages, making the censored version the only edition that exists.