Painted Veils

New York, NY: Boni and Liveright, 1920 Boni and Liveright, New York. 1920. Hardcover. Limited Edition of 1200 but is not numbered or signed. Book is tight, square, and does have marginal notes and underlining in fountain pen ink from a previous owner whose psycho/sexual knowledge for the time is quite advanced. Book Condition: Very Good; suntanned spine; bumped lower tips; slightly splayed boards. No DJ. Blue boards with beige parchment overlay on the spine. No Title on spine or boards. Sound internal hinges. Untrimmed edges. 294 pp 8vo. "Painted Veils is the literary turnstile into lubricious, hard-drinking, wise-cracking twentieth-century New York, as Huneker was himself the incarnation of the cultured bohemianism of the glamorous days when the city was young, irresponsible, Dionysian. This book is New York in any year between 1880 and 1900. It is the most vital and vivid picture ever written of those decades by a man who lived its life, a man Who made it his own, absorbing it with every breath, incorporating it in every cell of his body and brain. For this man Huneker was a voracious shark of the intellectual and of the sensuous life. He was a veritable Moloch of arts and persons, beers and food. He was curious about all things, a sleuth of all sensations and thoughts. To him Experience was Truth. A clean very presentable copy.