New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. First edition. 8vo, 167pp; cloth-backed plush green boards mimicking the manicured texture of a putting green. A psychological study of the game. Gene Sarazen was a dominant golfer of his generation, winner of seven major tournaments and a career grand slam. Bookplate of H.E. McFaddin... More about The Mental Side of Golf.; With a Foreword by Gene Sarazen
New York: Boni and Liveright, (1927). First edition. 8vo, 69pp; cloth-backed boards. This copy withdrawn from the collection of the University of California's Bancroft Library, with their stamped bookplate on the front pastedown. More about Returning to Emotion
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1928. First edition. 8vo, 63pp; brown cloth with printed mint-green labels. More about The King of Spain; a Book of Poems
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922. First edition. 8vo, 101pp; parchment-backed boards stamped in gilt. Third book by the notorious, hard-drinking Greenwich Village bohemian. More about Introducing Irony:; A Book of Poetic Short Stories and Poems
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1926. First edition. 8vo, 267pp; bright orange cloth. A decent copy of Bodenheim's novel; jacket art by Harold Harvey. More about Ninth Avenue
New York: Horace Liveright, (1929). First edition. 8vo, 280pp; blue cloth stamped in gilt and red. A presentable copy of Bodenheim's novel of the last minute before the execution of a condemned murderer. Dust jacket by "Jacks." More about Sixty Seconds
New York: Horace Liveright, 1930. First edition. 8vo, [70]pp; cloth-backed pictorial boards. Poems meant to be set to music by the dissolute denizen of the Greenwich Village scene. More about Bringing Jazz!
New York: Horace Liveright, (1931). First edition. 8vo, 242pp; blue cloth. "Character study of an inventive sadist." Despite stated flaws, not an unattractive copy. More about Duke Herring
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1928. First edition. 8vo, 272pp; blue cloth. Bodenheim's novel of a courtesan's life came out in the midst of the obscenity trial over his previous novel Replenishing Jessica. An attractive copy of a book not often found in an undamaged dust jacket, featuring its bold... More about Georgie May
New York: Horace Liveright, 1931. First edition. 8vo, 99pp; black cloth. Third book of poems by the youngest sister of Edna St. Vincent Millay -- she also wrote two novels. Dust jacket art by Hans Flato. More about The Beggar at the Gate.; Poems
New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. First edition. 8vo, 129pp; black cloth. The poet's second book. The jacket features appealing graphic art by Hans Flato. More about The Hermit Thrush.; Poems
New York: Boni and Liveright, (1927). First edition. 8vo, 110pp; black cloth. First book by the younger sister of Edna St. Vincent Millay. An uncommon book in the dust jacket (illustrated by Hans Flato). More about The Evergreen Tree; Poems
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1924. First edition. 8vo, 297pp; brown cloth with printed spine label. The first book by Burke, one of the high priests of literary modernism, was this collection of short stories. He became one of the most influential literary critics and theorists of his generation. More about The White Oxen; and Other Stories
New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, (1937). First edition. 8vo, 155pp; terracotta cloth stamped in black and gilt. Ginsebrg's second self-subsidized book, inscribed and signed -- dated May 23/'41 -- to a New Jersey friend Louis E. Bloetjes. With a second inscription in red pencil in another hand "to Kent Nesslage"... More about The Everlasting Minute; and Other Poems
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927. First edition thus. 8vo, 334pp illustrated; pictorial endpapers; rough-grained tan cloth stamped in black and green. A charming collection of fictional travels, originally published in 1883. More about Traveller's Tales:; A Book of Marvels. Decorations by William Siegel
New York: Boni and Liveright, (1924). First edition. 8vo, 486pp; blue cloth stamped in gilt. The eldest of the over-achieving sons of actor Steele MacKaye - this younger bothers were the poet Percy MacKaye and the conservationist/activist Benton MacKaye -- James MacKaye was an engineer who published adventurous books of... More about The Logic of Conduct
New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1931). First American edition. 8vo, 297pp; brown cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by O'Flaherty over most of the front flyleaf, gradually increasing the size of his words: "To Frances, with love from Liam. If she wants it larger I shall write it like this With Love from... More about I Went to Russia
New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1929). First American edition. 8vo, 287pp; cloth-backed boards. More about The Mountain Tavern; and Other Stories
London: Victor Gollancz, 1950. First edition. 8vo, 254pp; green cloth. In his final novel, O'Flaherty returned to a formative time from his early life, the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland. More about Insurrection
London: Victor Gollancz, 1932. First edition. 8vo, 287pp; black cloth. More about Skerrett
New York: Horace Liveright, (1929). First American edition. 8vo, 245pp; gray cloth. Hauser's major novel, which received the Gerhart Hauptmann Prize in Germany, uncommon in jacket. More about Bitter Waters.; Translated by Patrick Kirwan. Preface by Liam O'Flaherty
London: Victor Gollancz, 1935. 8vo, 288pp; bright red cloth. Presentable copy of the "First Cheap Edition" of O'Flaherty's bitter satire. The book derived from his experience in Hollywood working on the successful adaptation of his novel The Informer. More about Hollywood Cemetery; A Novel
London: Jonathan Cape, (1931). First edition. 8vo, 299pp with list of author's books tipped in at rear; off-white cloth stamped in black and red. O'Flaherty was a Communist earlier in his life, but had left the party by the time of his visit to the USSR. More about I Went To Russia
New York: Horace Liveright, (1931). First edition. 8vo, 90pp; cloth-backed boards. Feibleman's scarce first book, a collection of poems, most of which had appeared in "The Double-Dealer," the New Orleans literary magazine edited by his friend Sherwood Anderson. Feibleman soon set aside his literary aspirations and settled into a long... More about Death of the God in Mexico
New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1930. First American edition. 8vo, 198pp; apricot cloth stamped in black. A nice copy of O'Flaherty's WWI novel. He served on the western front in an Irish regiment and was wounded in combat. More about Return of the Brute