The Voice in the Closet
New York: Horace Liveright, 1930. First American edition. 8vo, [349]pp; gray cloth with a striking graphic design in black and red. Dust jacket design by Irving Politzer. More about The Voice in the Closet
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The Owl's Warning
New York: Liveright, Inc., (1932). First American edition. 8vo, 313pp; black cloth stamped in red. Dust jacket design by Irving Politzer. More about The Owl's Warning
Flower Phantoms
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1926. First American edition. 8vo, 158pp, pictorial endpapers; green cloth stamped in gilt. After being wounded in Flanders during the First World War, Arthur Ronald Fraser (1888-1974) went into diplomatic service and achieved high ranking positions in Argentina, Egypt, and elsewhere. All the while he... More about Flower Phantoms
Landscape With Figures
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925. First American edition. 8vo, 320pp; cloth-backed decorated boards, patterned endpapers. Eary novel by Fraser, a comparatively obscure, if prolific, writer of mystical fantasies. This novel imagines the life in peopled scenes the author observed in paintings on Chinese porcelain vases at the British Museum... More about Landscape With Figures
The Adventures of Maya the Bee; Illustrated by Vera Bock.
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1929. First edition thus. Small 4to, 224pp; blue cloth with printed labels. The classic children's tale, originally published in Germany in 1912 and continuously in print ever since. It has been adapted into comic books, TV programs, and films as recently as 2018. The... More about The Adventures of Maya the Bee; Illustrated by Vera Bock
Two Years
London: Jonathan Cape, (1930). First edition. 8vo, 351pp; blue-gray cloth. Cover and frontispiece portrait of O'Flaherty by F.A. Coventry. More about Two Years
The Life of Tim Healy
London: Jonathan Cape, (1927). First edition. 8vo, frontispiece, 320pp; green cloth. O'Flaherty's biography of the first Governor-General of the Free Irish State. Laid in is the publisher's order form for two recent books. More about The Life of Tim Healy
The Life of Tim Healy
New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1927). First American edition. 8vo, frontispiece, 318pp; green cloth. O'Flaherty's biography of the first Governor-General of the Free Irish State. More about The Life of Tim Healy
Skerrett
New York: Ray Long & Richard R. Smith, 1932. First American edition. 8vo, 274pp; terracotta cloth. More about Skerrett
Land: A Novel.
New York: Random House, (1946). First American edition. 8vo, 356pp; green cloth stamped in black and silver. More about Land: A Novel
Low Run Tide and Lava Rock
New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. First edition. 8vo, 311pp, patterned endpapers; polished green cloth. Two novels in one volume. Paul was an editor of Transition, along with Eugene Jolas. More about Low Run Tide and Lava Rock
Dead Lovers Are Faithful Lovers
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1928. First edition. 8vo, 295pp; cloth-backed patterned purple boards with matching endpapers. The author's second novel, following her bestseller, The Hard-Boiled Virgin. Newman was a well-regarded writer, promoted by Sherwood Anderson, H.L. Mencken, and James Branch Cabell, among others. She pushed boundaries of social acceptability... More about Dead Lovers Are Faithful Lovers
Year In, You're Out
New York: Horace Liveright, (1930). First edition. 8vo, 222pp; parchment-backed cloth, spine stamped in a geometric deco pattern of contrasting lozenges, leather title label. One of 275 numbered (199) copies signed by Hoffenstein and specially bound. More about Year In, You're Out
In the American Grain
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1925. First edition. 8vo, 235pp; black cloth. Williams's first commercially published book. Williams recalled: "The Bonis made a beautiful book of it, for which I shall be forever grateful, but, as far as marketing it, they did next to nothing . . .In no... More about In the American Grain
The Beardsley Period:; An Essay in Perspective.
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925. First American edition. 8vo, 302pp; blue-green cloth stamped in gilt and blind after a Beardsley design. Uncommon U.S. edition made of sheets from the London first edition. More about The Beardsley Period:; An Essay in Perspective
The Conquest of Happiness
New York: Horace Liveright, 1930. First American edition. 8vo, 249pp; burgundy cloth. Less common than the English edition of this title. More about The Conquest of Happiness
Sky Larking:; The Romantic Adventure of Flying. With seven illustrations by Cosmo Clark
New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. First edition. 8vo, 259pp; cloth-backed decorative boards, stamped in silver with a pattern of abstracted airplanes. The author's first book, one of two that he wrote on aviation subjects. Gould enjoyed a long career as a journalist and editor, most closely associated with the Saturday... More about Sky Larking:; The Romantic Adventure of Flying. With seven illustrations by Cosmo Clark
Aerial Vagabond; With a Foreword by Prince Bibesco
New York: Liveright, (1941). First edition. 8vo, 260pp, illustrated; cloth. A first-hand account by the pioneering aviatrix of her greatest adventure, a flight that took her from Paris to Shanghai with numerous stops along the way. In the course of flying over Germany she took the first aerial photographs of... More about Aerial Vagabond; With a Foreword by Prince Bibesco
The Erotic Motive In Literature
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919. First edition. 8vo, 250pp; blue cloth. More about The Erotic Motive In Literature
The Literature of Ecstasy
New York: Boni and Liveright, (1921). First edition. 8vo, 262pp; blue cloth. Scarce in jacket. More about The Literature of Ecstasy
Money for Tomorrow
New York: Liveright Inc., (1932). First edition. 8vo, 315pp; blue cloth stamped in gilt. Investment advice in the depths of the depression. More about Money for Tomorrow
Karl Goldmark: Notes from the Life of a Viennese Composer. Translated by Alice Goldmark Brandeis.
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927. First edition. 8vo, 280pp; rough grained orange cloth. Autobiographical texts from the diaries of the Hungarian born composer. The translator was his niece, daughter of his brother Joseph who had been compelled to emigrate to the U.S. in the wake of the 1848... More about Karl Goldmark: Notes from the Life of a Viennese Composer. Translated by Alice Goldmark Brandeis
Styrbiorn the Strong
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1926. First American edition. 8vo, 256pp; black cloth stamped in gilt. The author's second U.S. publication, following the fantasy classic Worm Ouroboros, based on characters from Norse mythology. More about Styrbiorn the Strong
Men in War
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1918. First American edition. 8vo, 264pp; green cloth. Latzko's first novel, a forgotten classic of WWI literature. The translation is not credited, but was likely done by Ludwig Lewisohn who also translated Latzko's second novel , Judgment of Peace, for Boni & Liveright. More about Men in War
The Judgment of Peace.; A Novel. Translated by Ludwig Lewisohn.
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919. First American edition. 8vo, 280pp; butter yellow cloth stamped in black. Second novel by Latzko, a Hungarian-born pacifist, dealing with the experience of German infantrymen on the Western Front. Quite scarce and especially so in such condition. More about The Judgment of Peace.; A Novel. Translated by Ludwig Lewisohn