Boni & Liveright
Boni & Liveright was a short-lived but influential New York publishing house founded in 1917 by Albert Boni and Horace Liveright. It began by issuing inexpensive reprints of modern classics under the Modern Library imprint, then quickly became known for daring new literature.
The firm published early work by Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner, T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, Eugene O’Neill, Hart Crane, and John Reed’s Ten Days That Shook the World. It also challenged censorship laws in court.
Boni left after a few years (the partners famously settled control with a coin toss). Liveright, a flamboyant promoter, ran the house through the 1920s. In 1925 he sold the Modern Library to Bennett Cerf, who used it as the foundation of Random House. Financial mismanagement and the Depression forced Liveright out around 1930; the company declared bankruptcy in 1933.
The remaining backlist was later acquired by W.W. Norton, which revived the Liveright name as an imprint in 2012. Despite lasting only about sixteen years as an independent firm, Boni & Liveright is remembered as one of the most important American publishers of the 1920s literary renaissance.
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Arthur Schopenhauer Studies in Pessimism Boni Liveright C1917 Modern Library
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DAISY MILLER AN INTERNATIONAL EPISODE BY HENRY JAMES 1919 BONI & LIVERIGHT ML ED
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Sayonara Good-Bye John Paris 1924 First Edition Boni & Liveright No Jacket
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Signed Eugene O'Neill STRANGE INTERLUDE Signed Limited 1st Edition 1928 Slipcase
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Weber and Fields: Their Tribulations, Triumphs and Their Associates.
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The Hard-Boiled Virgin by Frances Newman 1926 Boni & Liveright
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THE FLORENTINE DAGGER by Ben Hecht. New York: Boni and Liveright 1923 First Ed.
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Napoleon by Emil Ludwig Illustrated Hardcover, Boni & Liveright New York 1926
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France, Anatole. “Thaïs” Modern Library Boni & Liveright
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Antique Modern Library Book Best Russian Short Stories Boni and Liveright 1918
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Ulick & Soracha George Moore SIGNED 1st Edition 1926 HCDJ Boni and Liveright
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Tolerance by Hendrik Willem van Loon, published by Boni & Liveright in 1925
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Education and the Good Life by Bertrand Russell Boni & liveright 1926 (HC)
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1921 The Story of Mankind Hendrik Van Loon History Book Boni & Liveright 1st Ed.
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Marco Millions Eugene O'Neill 1927 - Boni & Liveright - 1st Edition
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THE FLORENTINE DAGGER by Ben Hecht. New York: Boni and Liveright 1923 First Ed.
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Gertrude Atherton The Crystal Cup 1925 Boni & Liveright Hardcover Ex-Library
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Sister Carrie/ Theodore Dreiser/ 1917/ Boni & Liveright
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