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Horace Liveright (1884-1933) dba Boni and Liveright in New York published 23 titles of George Moore, 1918-1927. The books were marketed as collector’s items in limited, sometimes signed editions.
The Carra Edition of George Moore’s Modern Painting (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1923), volume 19 in the set. “Printed for subscribers only,” each volume came wrapped in a grey dust jacket.
The Carra Edition published 1922-1924 was limited to 1,000 numbered sets for subscribers only with the first volume signed by George Moore: Lewis Seymour and Some Women (1922), Volume 1; A Mummer’s Wife (1922), Volume 2; Muslin (1922), Volume 3; Spring Days (1922), Volume 4; Esther Waters (1922), Volume 5; Evelyn Innes (1923), Volume 6; Sister Teresa (1923), Volume 7; The Lake and The Untilled Field (1923), Volume 8; Confessions of a Young Man and Avowals (1923), Volume 9; Memoirs of My Dead Life (1923), Volume 10; Hail and Farewell, Ave (1923), Volume 11; Hail and Farewell, Salve (1923), Volume 12; Hail and Farewell, Vale (1923), Volume 13; A Story-Teller’s Holiday (1923), Volume 14; Héloïse and Abélard I (1923), Volume 15; Héloïse and Abélard II (1923), Volume 16; The Brook Kerith (1923), Volume 17; In Single Strictness (1923), Volume 18; Modern Painting (1923), Volume 19; Conversations in Ebury Street (1924), Volume 20; Daphnis and Chloe and Peronnik the Fool (1924), Volume 21.
Liveright published some of these titles outside the Carra Edition; in addition he published Moore’s The Coming of Gabrielle (1921) and An Anthology of Pure Poetry (1924).
He also issued popular Black and Gold editions of George Moore: A Story-Teller’s Holiday (1929); Héloïse and Abélard (1932); Esther Waters (1932); A Mummer’s Wife {1966).
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