Greenwich, Connecticut: The Dial, November 1922. 8vo, [119]pp (473-592) + ads; original printed wrappers. The first U.S. publication of Eliot's landmark poem, appearing a couple of weeks after its London publication in "The Criterion". With other contributions from W.B. Yeats, Mina Loy, Ezra Pound, Bertrand Russell and others, and with... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1926, 1927. First American editions. Two vols., uniform 8vos, 280, 259pp; cloth. More
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New York: Boni and Liveright, (1926). First edition. 8vo, 369pp; map endpapers; black cloth. A journalist, playwright, and author of a dozen books, Manuel Komroff was the production manager at Boni & Liveright. It took a special effort for him to convince a reluctant Horace Liveright to publish his reworking... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1924. First edition. 8vo, 346pp; cloth. A disciple of Franz Boas, Lowie made a lasting mark on the fields of anthropology and comparative religion. This was one of his major works derived from extensive field work among the Plains Indians of North America. More
New York: Horace Liveright, 1928. First edition. 8vo, 251pp; cloth. A death-house memoir written by Gray while awaiting execution for his part in the murder of his lover's husband. "The publishers issue this book only after confirming its authenticity beyond the shadow of a doubt. It was composed in the... More
New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, (1928). First American edition. Large 8vo, 414pp; burgundy cloth. The scarce dust jacket features a blurb by H.G. Wells. More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1926. First American edition. Large 8vo, 487pp illus; complete with eleven folding maps; green cloth. U.S. edition done up from sheets of the London edition published by George Allen & Unwin, with a cancel title page. Roheim was on the forefront of using psychoanalytical methods... More
New York: Horace Liveright, 1930. First edition. Two vols., uniform 8os, frontispieces, 274, 359pp, illus.; red cloth. A former U.S. senator, and unsuccessful presidential candidate, Miles Poindexter served as American ambassador to Peru, where he undertook extensive research that led to this massive study, arguing for Asiatic origins of the... More
New York: Horace Liveright, (1931). First American edition. 8vo, [320]pp illus.; orange cloth stamped in black and gilt. First-hand accounts of travels in far flung corners of the world. Titaÿna was the pseudonym of Elisabeth Saury, early French feminist, aviatrix, and journalist. A well-known figure in Paris, sporting short hair... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927. First edition. 8vo, 311pp; cloth. With a broad sweep covering Reconstruction, the Klan, prohibition, religion, racism, economics, and politics, Robertson offered this study in the context of Democratic New York Gov. Al Smith's presidential campaign, which faced a particular challenge in wooing southern voters... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, (1921). First American edition. 8vo, 312pp; cloth with printed spine label. One of 1500 hand-numbered copies in the edition. Scarce, especially in jacket. More
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927. First American edition. 8vo, frontispiece, 286pp; 3/4 cloth and patterned boards. Andre-Ferdinand Herold (1865-1940) was a French Symbolist poet, member of the circle around Stephane Mallarmé and a close friend and traveling companion of Pierre Louys. More
New York: Liveright, (1943). First edition. 8vo, 284pp; cloth. Sensational reporting on Japanese occupation tactics. In the dust jacket, which incorporates an ad for war bonds and a mailing label for the reader to, when finished with the book, send it as a donation to the army libraries. More
New York: Boni and Liveright, n.d. (1923?). First American edition. 8vo, 90pp; cloth. This U.S. edition, done up with sheets printed in Vienna by the Society for Graphic Industry, likely followed closely on the British edition published by the Hogarth Press in October 1922. More
(New York): Horace Liveright / Institute of Psycho-Analysis, 1928. First American edition. 8vo, 98pp; cloth. Produced from sheets of the U.K. edition published by the Hogarth Press (Woolmer 105) in an edition of just over 1500 copies. More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919. First edition. Small 8vo, 107pp; boards. Before gaining widespread fame as a pornographer and for publishing James Joyce's Ulysses - and fighting American censors in a landmark case for having done so - Roth wrote poems in a modernist vein that were praised by... More
New York: Liveright Publishers, (1932). First American edition. 8vo, 431pp; cloth. Already a leading psychologist in Russia, Luria wrote this book as a dissertation for his second degree and it cemented his international reputation in the field. More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927. First American edition, made from British sheets. 8vo, 188pp; decorative boards. A contemporary, and romantic rival, of Dostoevsky Rozanov was a controversial and eclectic writer who wrestled with Christian theology and his own liberal attitudes toward human sexuality. His work was suppressed by Soviet... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, (1922). First edition. 8vo, fronispiece, 359pp, illus.; cloth. Includes memoirs of many of the notable people she came to know upon settling in the United States, including Charlie Chaplin -- who was among her more famous lovers --, Bernard Baruch, and Sinclair Lewis. Scarce, especially... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, (1921). First American edition. 8vo, frontispiece, 239pp, illus.; cloth. Daughter of privilege, and first cousin to Winston Churchill, Clare Sheridan became well known for sculpting bust of the famous and infamous. Sympathetic to the Bolshevik revolution, she traveled to Russia where she met and sculpted... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1926. First edition. 8vo, 336pp; cloth. Loosely inserted is a small broadsheet advertisement for new books about Napoleon (Emil Ludwig) and George Washington (W.E. Woodward). More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925. First edition. 8vo, 284pp; cloth-backed decorative boards. A radical critic and founder of the "Modern Quarterly", V.F. Calverton was the pseudonym of George Goetz. This was his first book. More
New York: Horace Liveright, 1930. First edition. SMall 8vo, 122pp; cloth. The poet's second book in the uncommon jacket featuring an impressive , albeit unsigned and uncredited, woodcut illustration in an expressionist vein. A promising talent whose work appeared in the pages of Harriet Monroe's "Poetry" magazine, Talbott died shortly... More
New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. First edition. Small 8vo, 102pp; cloth-backed boards. Poet's uncommon first book in the seldom seen jacket, designed by Jacks. More
New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. First edition. Small 8vo, 102pp; cloth-backed boards. The poet's first book, a collection of light-hearted yet erudite poems. Inscribed and signed "Respectfully, Carlton Talbott, March, 1929" on a preliminary leaf, and scace thus: Talbott died the following year, after the publication of a second book... More