Loveman, Samuel, 1887-1976

Samuel Loveman (1887-1976) was an American author, editor and bookseller. His published works include The hermaphrodite and other poems (1936), and A round-table in Poictessme : a symposium (1924), which he edited with Don Bregenzar.

From the description of Papers of Samuel Loveman, 1909-pre-1927. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122332604

Samuel Loveman was an American book dealer and publisher, and also a poet, translator, and magazine editor.

From the description of Samuel Loveman translations of Heinrich Heine poems, ca. 1950? (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 51907493

American book dealer and publisher, poet, and editor Samuel Loveman (b. 1885?-1976) was proprietor of Bodley Book Shop in New York City, and associated with Dauber & Pine Book Shop and Gotham Book Mart.

From the description of Samuel Loveman correspondence, 1911-1976 (bulk 1932-1968). (University of Delaware Library). WorldCat record id: 22443232

Epithet: of Dauber and Pine Bookshops, New York

British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000630.0x0002a2

Samuel Loveman was born in 1887 in Cleveland, Ohio. An aspiring poet, Loveman left the Midwest in order to pursuer his career as a writer and to live an openly gay lifestyle. He moved to New York City in the early 1920s where he made the acquaintance of several prominent authors including Ambrose Bierce, Hart Crane, and H.P. Lovecraft. Loveman owned a bookstore named the Bodley Bookshop in Manhattan with his partner David Mann. He wrote two books, The Hermaphrodite was a poem published in July 1926 and subsequently republished with additional poems in 1936 and Twenty-One Letters, a collection of letters sent to him by Ambrose Bierce. He also published The Sphinx in 1944. Loveman died in relative obscurity at the Jewish Home and Hospital in 1976.

From the description of Samuel Loveman letters, 1911-1976. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 606938196

BIOGHIST REQUIRED Samuel Loveman was born in 1887 in Cleveland, Ohio. An aspiring poet, Loveman left the Midwest in order to pursuer his career as a writer and to live an openly gay lifestyle. He moved to New York City in the early 1920s where he made the acquaintance of several prominent authors including Ambrose Bierce, Hart Crane, and H.P. Lovecraft. Loveman owned a bookstore named the Bodley Bookshop in Manhattan with his partner David Mann. He wrote two books, The Hermaphrodite was a poem published in July 1926 and subsequently republished with additional poems in 1936 and Twenty-One Letters, a collection of letters sent to him by Ambrose Bierce. He also published The Sphinx in 1944. Loveman died in relative obscurity at the Jewish Home and Hospital in 1976.

From the guide to the Samuel Loveman Correspondence, 1911-1976., (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library, )

Poet, book dealer.

From the description of Reminiscences of Samuel Loveman : oral history, 1962. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 86100391

American book dealer and publisher, poet, and editor Samuel Loveman (b. 1885?–1976) was proprietor of Bodley Book Shop in New York City, and associated with Dauber & Pine Book Shop and Gotham Book Mart. In partnership with David Mann, as the Bodley Press, he published Hart Crane, by Brom Weber; The Case of Ezra Pound, by Charles Norman; and a reprint from Walt Whitman's The Wound Dresser .

Loveman edited the magazines, Saturnian and Trend, and published translations of Heine, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, and Rilke.

Loveman died on May 14, 1976.

Bowden, Jane A. (ed.) Contemporary Authors. Volumes 65-68. Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1977. p. 372. Biographical information derived from correspondence in the collection.

From the guide to the Samuel Loveman correspondence, 1911–1976, 1932–1968, (University of Delaware Library - Special Collections)