Youth Dares All
New York: Macaulay Company, 1930. William Gropper. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 8vo. Pp. 299. Dark red cloth, titles and rules stamped in black on the cover and spine. Top edge dyed dark red. Corners lightly bumped, lower fore edge cloth a touch discolored. Binding tight. In the three-color illustrated dust jacket with price $2 partially clipped; shallow chips; short closed tear to front panel upper edge. Please see photos. A handsome, presentable copy. Very Good+ / Very Good. Item #6299 The dust jacket illustration, a restrained, avant garde depiction of a wheat harvester by William Gropper, is indicative of the friends kept by Liebovitz: Alfred Stieglitz, John Marin, Herbert Seligmann, and Marsden Hartley among them. Scarce. Dust jacket is now housed in a removable, clear archival sleeve.
Published anonymously, David Liebovitz's first novel is a picaresque narrative of a prototypically optimistic American. Lewis Mumford was prompted to write "it has all the humor and juiciness of Mark Twain." Liebovitz later published two novels under his name: Chronicle of an Infamous Woman in 1933 and Canvas Sky in 1946.
Price: $275.00