Moore, George. Memoirs of My Dead Life. Boni & Liveright, 1920.

Price: US$37.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: PRESENTATION COPY from the author, published in a LIMITED EDITION of 1500 COPIES sold to subscribers. Very small chip to bottom of jacket, else a fine copy.

Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.

MOORE, George. Memoirs of a Dead Life. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1920.

Price: US$2500.00 + shipping

Description: 8vo. Original faux-vellum backed blue boards, leather spine label, unopened; plain blue dust jacket lettered in grey on spine; quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance: sold Christie's New York, 15 October 1997, lot 278. Second American ("Author's") edition, revised and expanded, limited to 1500 numbered copies (this no. 154). The dedication copy, inscribed by the author on a front flyleaf: "To T R Smith with many kind regards, George Moore, March 30th 1921. " Thomas Smith was the head editor at Boni and Liveright and a literary advisor to Moore at this time.; he had previously been the editor of the 'Century Magazine' and had acted as Moore's agent in America (see W. Gilmer, 'Horace Liveright', 1970, pp. 25 & 29). The printed dedication is in the form of a letter: "My writings languished in America before you took charge of them, and as a token of my indebtedness and gratitude I feel I should like to have your name on this book. A fine copy with an unique association of the earliest edition of 'Memoirs of My Dead Life', first published in 1906, to have a dedication. Gilcher A29b; Connolly, 'The Modern Movement', 17: "Here we hear the true voice of this neglected genius who, had we but patience, is still the best company for depressed insomniacs." (BA). Slight fraying at top of spine and a forecorner of jacket

Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts, ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.