RARE! The Red Lily by Anatole France Nobel Prize Winning author, Boni & Liveright publisher as part of the Modern Library series, 1924

RARE! The Red Lily by Nobel Prize Winning author and poet Anatole France.  ABOUT THE NOVEL (Courtesy of AbeBooks) Written by French poet Anatole France (1844-1924), journalist, and successful novelist with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Académie française, and won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Red Lily was incorporated into The Modern Library of the World's Best Books series by publisher Boni & Liveright in 1924. Apparently Boni & Liveright were considered avant garde publishers of their day which drew some of the world's most renown authors to their door. Here's a bit about the publisher we found on Wikipedia... ABOUT THE PUBLISHER (Courtesy of Wikipedia) Boni & Liveright (pronounced "BONE-eye" and "LIVE-right") is an American trade book publisher established in 1917 in New York City by Albert Boni and Horace Liveright. Over the next sixteen years the firm, which cha