Boni Books 13 (Sept., 1930). Cover by John Barbour

            This classic 1930’s paperback from Charles Boni is bound in stiff paper pictorial wraps by John Barbour and has a Rockwell Kent title page. 

In 1913 Charles Boni co-founded with his brother Albert Boni the Washington Square Bookshop in Greenwich Village.  The bookshop was just next door to the Liberal Club and became a center for Bohemian activities in the Village.  In 1923 the brothers founded the publishing house of Albert & Charles Boni, which published many major modernist writers and remained in business until 1939.  In 1928 the brothers undertook an experiment called Charles Boni Paper Books, a paperback book club by mail subscription.  Unfortunately, the stock market crash in 1929 hindered their effort, and the experiment failed after just a few years.  

A paperback book experiment would not be undertaken again in the USA until 1938 when Pocket Books published the paperback version of "The Good Earth" for the New York City market.  It was followed by "Lost Horizon" in 1939 which became the first "mass market" paperback.

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