[Gay literature] Barney, Natalie Clifford. The One Who is Legion, or A.D.'s After Life

With Two Illustrations by Romaine Brooks. London, Scholartis Press, privately subscribed by Eric Partridge Ltd., 1930. 1st ed. 'Limited to 560 copies/ 525 being for sale, of which 25 numbered and signed.' No. vii/25, signed and numb. by Barney. Cl. w. gilt lettering on spine. 8vo.

Cloth sl. wavy, some foxing, but in very good condition. Only novel by the so-called 'Amazon of Paris', the legendary lesbian writer, American expatriate and lover of a.o. Renée Vivien, Liane de Pougy and Olive Custance. 'The One Who is Legion' is told by a genderless narrator and mixes gender issues with occult elements. Radclyffe Hall based her groundbreaking 1928 lesbian novel 'The Well of Loneliness' on the life and loves of Barney. Very rare signed first edition of this important work.