CHURCHILL, Allen.
The Improper Bohemians: A Re-creation of Greenwich Village in Its Heyday.
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc. , 1959.
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First Edition of The Improper Bohemians; Signed by Allen Churchill
First edition of this classic chronicle of Greenwich Village's golden era. Octavo, original publisher's half-cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Boldly signed by Allen Churchill on the front free endpaper. Very good in a very good dust jacket.
The Improper Bohemians: A Re-creation of Greenwich Village in Its Heyday (1959) by Allen Churchill is widely regarded as the first cultural history of Greenwich Village, and remains one of the most lively and richly detailed accounts of the extraordinary creative ferment that made lower Manhattan the bohemian capital of American life during the years from 1912 to 1930. The narrative begins with the arrival of Mabel Dodge in 1912 and proceeds to chronicle the overlapping worlds of radical politics, literary modernism, experimental theater, and social libertarianism that made the Village a uniquely generative environment — assembling a cast of characters that includes John Reed, Emma Goldman, Eugene O'Neill, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Max Eastman, Susan Glaspell, and the eccentric Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, among dozens of others. Written with the verve and narrative instinct of a skilled popular historian rather than an academic, the book offers an irreplaceable street-level portrait of a moment when a single square mile of Manhattan concentrated more literary and artistic talent than almost any comparable space in American cultural history — making it essential reading for anyone interested in the roots of American modernism.
The Improper Bohemians: A Re-creation of Greenwich Village in Its Heyday.
$400.00
In Stock