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.....
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
(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.
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...
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.
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...
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...
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).
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.
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...
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.
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...
New York: Horace Liveright, (1929). First American edition. Two vols., 8vos, 603pp, t.e.g., illustrated with photographs and maps; cloth. The second of Malinowski three major works on the Trobriand island culture, seldom encountered in dust jackets.
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925. First edition. 8vo, [280]pp; two-tone cloth. A child of assimilated German Jews who emigrated to the United States when he was a child, Lewisohn faced unrelenting anti-semitism nonetheless as he pursued an academic career and ultimately returned to Judaism, rejecting assimilation as a failure...
New York: Horace Liveright, (1931). First American edition. 8vo, 59pp; cloth-backed decorative boards.
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1928. First American edition. 8vo, 61pp; two-color decorative cloth with printed spine label. A handsome copy of this collection of spiritual poems.
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927. Second edition. 8vo, 38pp; decorative boards.
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927. First American edition. 8vo, 38pp; decorative boards with plain cloth spine; printed label on front cover. Scarce first printing of this collection of poems.
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927. First American edition. 8vo, 112pp; black cloth stamped in silver. Includes a brief prefatory text by Annie Besant and a cover portrait of Krishnamurti by Kahlil Gibran. Uncommon, especially in such fine condition.
New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. First edition. 8vo, 306pp; blue cloth stamped in gilt and red. Incan-themed novel by the author of "The Clansman (Birth of a Nation)"
New York: Boni and Liveright, (1922). First American edition. 8vo, 334pp; cloth. A very nice copy of the priest-turned-novelist's book about the lives of young women in Catholic Ireland. The rare dust jacket reproduces a letter to the publisher from George Moore as a blurb in the front panel.
