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publisher/imprint [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?1460 The Modern Library], ie from 1925 | publisher/imprint [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?1460 The Modern Library], ie from 1925 | ||
− | + | * publ series [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pubseries.cgi?2735 The Modern Library (Boni & Liveright)], 1916--1924/25 | |
− | + | * publ series [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pubseries.cgi?2465 The Modern Library of the World's Best Books], ie >= 1925 (at ISFDB) | |
− | + | * publ series [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pubseries.cgi?1418 Modern Library Giant], from 1931 | |
− | + | * publ series [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pubseries.cgi?996 Modern Library Classics], 21st century | |
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: NYT 1932-04-10 pBR13, advertisement ; dozens among #1-200 | : NYT 1932-04-10 pBR13, advertisement ; dozens among #1-200 | ||
: The Man Who Was Thursday, Modern Library [wrongly as [1917]], p[283-87] at HDL ; #1-210 and #G1-G7 >=1932 | : The Man Who Was Thursday, Modern Library [wrongly as [1917]], p[283-87] at HDL ; #1-210 and #G1-G7 >=1932 | ||
− | + | : NYT 1934-01-21 pBR24 "These 109 ..." among #1-213 (inclg 178 81 82, not 194) | |
+ | : [https://search-proquest-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/docview/1221536045/959829D8B71947D6PQ/21?accountid=11311] NYHT 1934-12-02 pF40 among #1-214 (inclg 2 The Good Earth, 15 Jurgen) | ||
Title page (all undated?) | Title page (all undated?) | ||
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: Boni and Liveright | : Boni and Liveright | ||
: Modern Library | : Modern Library | ||
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== Newspapers == | == Newspapers == | ||
− | 1917 | + | ;1917 |
: [https://search-proquest-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/docview/99805897/7F5B6185665F4B1EPQ/2?accountid=11311] NY Times, 1917-04-15, lists 12 "Titles Just Published" | : [https://search-proquest-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/docview/99805897/7F5B6185665F4B1EPQ/2?accountid=11311] NY Times, 1917-04-15, lists 12 "Titles Just Published" | ||
: Atl Const -07-15 pD7 received Maet, DeMaup, Strind; "These volumes are in limp croft leather--green and brown--and are most attractive volumes." | : Atl Const -07-15 pD7 received Maet, DeMaup, Strind; "These volumes are in limp croft leather--green and brown--and are most attractive volumes." | ||
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− | ;1930- | + | ;1924-25 |
+ | : seeking Boni & Liveright transition/sale | ||
+ | |||
+ | 1924--1925 newspapers ("the modern library") (73 hits, 31 42) | ||
+ | : 1925-01-18 pD13 --Spring 1925 titles 95c (5): Carroll, Annunzio, Douglas, Bronte, Fabre | ||
+ | :: The Hunting of the Snark is included in the latest volume (Alice), intro Alexander Wolcott | ||
+ | :: "Boni & Liveright // 61 West 48th St. // New York" | ||
+ | : NY Herald, NY Tribune 1925-03-29 pD11 --Douglas, South Wind, "Limp binding, stained top, gold staped, 95c." | ||
+ | : The New Leader 1925-06-06 --review by M.D.W. ''The South Wind'' as Boni & Liveright | ||
+ | SOLD! | ||
+ | : NYH, NYT 1925-07-12 [https://search-proquest-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/docview/1112931296/722014204D764CB7PQ/49?accountid=11311] p16 "The Modern Library Sold", "a series of about 110 modern books of note", founded 1917 with 12; [https://search-proquest-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/docview/1112931163/722014204D764CB7PQ/50?accountid=11311] pD9 "Turns with a Bookworm" --"Unexpected news ..." perhaps $250,000 | ||
+ | : [https://search-proquest-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/docview/103493374/722014204D764CB7PQ/57?accountid=11311] NYT 1925-10-04 pBR28 --now '''112''' volumes, planned one volume monthly on the 25th | ||
+ | :: Modern Library Incorporated 71 West 45th Street New York City | ||
+ | : Phi Inq -10-31 p23 --advert The Latest Addition (Dumas, Camille), following South Wind [last as B&L?], Jungle Peace [first as ML?], now '''114''' volumes | ||
+ | : LCJ -11-01 p39 --The Latest Addition (Dumas, Camille), now '''114''' | ||
+ | : [https://search-proquest-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/docview/103455518/722014204D764CB7PQ/63?accountid=11311] NYT -11-29 pBR36 --announce W.S. Gilbert; now 36 page illustrated catalogue | ||
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+ | ;1930-34 | ||
: seeking Modern Library Giant; also Dracula | : seeking Modern Library Giant; also Dracula | ||
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:: The Modern Library, Inc, 20 East 57th St, New York | :: The Modern Library, Inc, 20 East 57th St, New York | ||
: [https://search-proquest-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/docview/99682183/4A8F5FC829074B8DPQ/8?accountid=11311] NYT 1932-04-10 pBR13 --from #1-200 | : [https://search-proquest-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/docview/99682183/4A8F5FC829074B8DPQ/8?accountid=11311] NYT 1932-04-10 pBR13 --from #1-200 | ||
+ | :: "Just Published" Sanctuary #61 | ||
:: list includes 17 among #180-200 (missing 78 81 82 94 among 175-200) | :: list includes 17 among #180-200 (missing 78 81 82 94 among 175-200) | ||
:: "G4" and "G5" stated | :: "G4" and "G5" stated | ||
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: received -03-13, -03-20 --Dreiser and Stoker | : received -03-13, -03-20 --Dreiser and Stoker | ||
: Phi Inq -03-26 additions --Dreiser, Stoker; Crime and Punishment, Magic Mountain | : Phi Inq -03-26 additions --Dreiser, Stoker; Crime and Punishment, Magic Mountain | ||
+ | : -04-10, -04-17 adverts (above) | ||
+ | : -05-22 now available "A Farewell to Arms" (unnumbered) dozens among 1-200 | ||
+ | : -07-10 "New Titles! The First Time at This Price" cites 200 --lists 15 including 61, 8, 31, 200 | ||
+ | : [https://search-proquest-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/docview/1331780843/959829D8B71947D6PQ/17?accountid=11311] NYHT -11-27 pI20 "Which of These 109 ... Do You Want ..." among #1-204 | ||
+ | : NYT 1934-01-21 pBR24 "These 109 ..." among #1-213 (inclg 178 81 82, not 194) | ||
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+ | to be continued? | ||
("modern library giant") (21 hits, 0 0 2 4 15) | ("modern library giant") (21 hits, 0 0 2 4 15) |
Revision as of 19:53, 23 May 2019
created 2019-05-23 by exports from People/Bram Stoker top section
publisher Boni & Liveright (61)[many] https://lccn.loc.gov/nr92033475 https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nr92-033475
- 1917 to 1928\1933, established winter 1917; created The Modern Library of World's Best Books spring 1917
publisher/imprint The Modern Library, ie from 1925
- publ series The Modern Library (Boni & Liveright), 1916--1924/25
- publ series The Modern Library of the World's Best Books, ie >= 1925 (at ISFDB)
- publ series Modern Library Giant, from 1931
- publ series Modern Library Classics, 21st century
Sources for list of titles
- 1917-04-15 pBR5 NY Times ; "Titles Just Published" (12) --unnumbered $0.60
- 1917-12-15 p7 The Globe ; Previously (17), Just (17) --unnumbered C$0.75
- A Dreamer's Tales, Boni & Liveright [wrongly as c1919], p[214-18] at Archive.org ; #1-110?
Modern Library or Random House, new series?
- A Dreamer's Tales, Modern Library, p[213-16] at HDL ; #1-133? + A Subject Index of Titles (no numbers)
- NYT 1931-09-27 pBR11, advertisement of the new Giants #G1-G3 ; ~120 among #1-192
- NYT 1932-04-10 pBR13, advertisement ; dozens among #1-200
- The Man Who Was Thursday, Modern Library [wrongly as [1917]], p[283-87] at HDL ; #1-210 and #G1-G7 >=1932
- NYT 1934-01-21 pBR24 "These 109 ..." among #1-213 (inclg 178 81 82, not 194)
- [1] NYHT 1934-12-02 pF40 among #1-214 (inclg 2 The Good Earth, 15 Jurgen)
Title page (all undated?)
- Boni and Liveright, Inc.
- Boni and Liveright
- Modern Library
- Canada
[2] The Globe (Toronto) -12-15 p7
- published in Canada by The Musson Book Company, C$0.75 each
- mentions the first 12 and now 30
- lists Previously Published (17) and Just Published (17 incl Thursday)
Canada list of 34 titles; numbered as of #1-110
- 1 .Wilde, Dorian Gray
- 2 Strindberg [Married, presumably without Miss Julie, which leads #52]
- [3]
- 4 Stevenson
- 5 .Wells, The War in the Air
- 6 .Ibsen
- 7 .France
- 8 De Maupassant
- 9 .Nietzsche
- 10 Dostoyevsky
- 11 Maeterlinck
- 12 Schopenhauer (= the 12 except Kipling)
- 13 Butler
- 14 Meredith
- 15 Shaw
- 16 Moore
- 17 Hardy
- 18 Seitzer, anth. (presumably the 18 except Kipling)
and "Just Published"
- 19 .Wilde [not listed 1919, Canada #19 inferred]
- 20 .Nietzsche
- 21 Turgenev
- 22 .France
- 23 Swinburne
- [24]
- [25] Howells [not listed 1919, Canada #25\24 inferred]
- 26 Gilbert
- 27 .Wells
- 28 Flaubert
- [29]
- 30 Stephens
- 31 Chekhov
- 32 Schnitzler
- 33 Sudermann
- 34 Dunsany, A Dreamer's Tales
- 35 Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday
- 36 .Ibsen
- 37 Haeckel, et al.
numbered in from A Dreamer's Tales (1919 per Tuck) p[214-23]
- 3 Kipling,
- 19 ?? [not found in 1919 list]
- 24 Ouida, In a Winter City
- 25 Cabell, Beyond Life
- 29 Hecht, Erik Dorn
- 58 Wilde, Poems
A Dreamer's Tales and Other Stories
Boni and Liveright at HDL p(213) "New titles are added in the Spring and Fall of every year."
- (1919 $0.95 per Tuck) #1-112
- Kipling, 3
- Maeterlinck, 11
- De Maupassant, 8
- Stevenson, 4
- Wells, 5
Libraries report c1919 but there is no stated copyright date Modern Library at HDL
- Introduction, p.ix-xiv, closes "Padraic Colum. // New York, August, 1917."
- Complete List List #1-133 p[213-16] --HDL copy lacks evident p216 #1-133 (at least #131 twice listed)
Howells not listed, Kipling #3 not listed
The Man Who Was Thursday
- as 1917 Random House P320709
back pages at HDL show MODERN LIBRARY GIANTS G1 to G7; [283-87] Complete List 1 to 210, this #35
Modern Library Giants #G1 to G7 are listed at the foot of a complete list of The Modern Library of the World's Best Books #1 to #210 --back pages of undated printing #35 "Every Modern Library Giant is complete and unabridged and over 1200 pages long." --list of Giants #G1-G7, at the foot of World's Best Books #1-210 (undated)
- HDL "Bristol, J. W. Arrowsmith; [1908]", viii,329, 19cm
- 2 copies with original cover [3]; p9-[330], [331-32] catalogue
- HDL 011712472 "Leipzig, B. Tauchnitz, 1908.",
- HDL 012517145 "New York : Boni & Liveright, [1908]", 281, 17cm ; (c)1908 Dodd, Mead ; half-title TMLotWBB ; 1-281, no back pages
- HDL 101712108 "New York : Dodd Mead, 1912.", v,281, 19cm --t.p. 1912, verso (c)1908 Dodd, Mead; published March 1908
- HDL 007122502 "New York, Dodd, Mead and company, 1908."
- two copies with cover, t.p. 1910 v,281 and t.p. 1958
- HDL 000627059 "New York, The Modern library [1917]" with back pages p283-87, List #1-210
- [1933?] https://lccn.loc.gov/2011658239
- 2001 ML Classics P245469 https://lccn.loc.gov/2001031708, intro Jonathan Lethem
- copyright page, 3rd printing per numberline: "Biographical note and reading group guide copyright (c)2001 by Random House, Inc." and Introduction (c)2001 by Lethem ; Biog v-viii, Intro xiii-xvii
- 2009 ebook P486554 ASIN: B002HHPVJE
- new series under Random House
NYT19170415 list of 12, compared with the catalogue #1-210
- Wells --
- Nietzsche, 9
- Maeterlinck --
- Wilde, 1
- Stevenson --
- Dostoyevsky, 10
- Schopenhauer, 12
- Ibsen, 6
- Strindberg, 2
- France, 7
- De Maupassant --
- Kipling --
3, Cellini 4, Rabelais 5, Douglas 8, Dreiser 11, France(2)
- Boni & Liveright at ISFDB
Newspapers
- 1917
- [4] NY Times, 1917-04-15, lists 12 "Titles Just Published"
- Atl Const -07-15 pD7 received Maet, DeMaup, Strind; "These volumes are in limp croft leather--green and brown--and are most attractive volumes."
- Atl Const -08-19 p10k The Best Russian Short Stories (anth. compiled and edited by Thomas Seltzer)
- SF Chron -07-18 p8 Saturday Book Reviews, names the same 12 and Best Russian
later numbering must be Random House
- N-Y Trib -08-25 p5 Best Russian "This eighteenth volume ..."
- LA Times -09-09 pIII21 "New Publishing House" "[B&L ... of TML] announce that they will conduct a general publishing business. ..." (one Dunsany forthcoming this Fall in TML
- Hart Cour -09-28 p9 "Books for the Pocket" local retailer names 4 "and 13 other"
- [5] NYT -11-04 pBR448 "A Modern Library"
- "... there has recently been launched ... the first thirty volumes of a 'Modern Library' ... [containing in part?] some of the best books in our current literature."
- "Following the example of Everyman's, and other similar series ..."
- Chi Trib -12-16 pD7 "Tabloid Book Review" by Fanny Butcher
- "The Modern Library is more like the famous and now defunct Tauchnitz edition, which made us all envy those who could buy their books on the continent."
- 1924-25
- seeking Boni & Liveright transition/sale
1924--1925 newspapers ("the modern library") (73 hits, 31 42)
- 1925-01-18 pD13 --Spring 1925 titles 95c (5): Carroll, Annunzio, Douglas, Bronte, Fabre
- The Hunting of the Snark is included in the latest volume (Alice), intro Alexander Wolcott
- "Boni & Liveright // 61 West 48th St. // New York"
- NY Herald, NY Tribune 1925-03-29 pD11 --Douglas, South Wind, "Limp binding, stained top, gold staped, 95c."
- The New Leader 1925-06-06 --review by M.D.W. The South Wind as Boni & Liveright
SOLD!
- NYH, NYT 1925-07-12 [6] p16 "The Modern Library Sold", "a series of about 110 modern books of note", founded 1917 with 12; [7] pD9 "Turns with a Bookworm" --"Unexpected news ..." perhaps $250,000
- [8] NYT 1925-10-04 pBR28 --now 112 volumes, planned one volume monthly on the 25th
- Modern Library Incorporated 71 West 45th Street New York City
- Phi Inq -10-31 p23 --advert The Latest Addition (Dumas, Camille), following South Wind [last as B&L?], Jungle Peace [first as ML?], now 114 volumes
- LCJ -11-01 p39 --The Latest Addition (Dumas, Camille), now 114
- [9] NYT -11-29 pBR36 --announce W.S. Gilbert; now 36 page illustrated catalogue
- 1930-34
- seeking Modern Library Giant; also Dracula
1930--1934 newspapers
("modern library" "les miserables") (12)
- earliest [10] NYT 1931-09-27 pBR11 (G1-G3 and list perhaps 120 among #1-192) --prices $1 and $1.10 net (5c and 10c postage)
- The Modern Library, Inc, 20 East 57th St, New York
- [11] NYT 1932-04-10 pBR13 --from #1-200
- "Just Published" Sanctuary #61
- list includes 17 among #180-200 (missing 78 81 82 94 among 175-200)
- "G4" and "G5" stated
- [12] NYT 1932-04-17 pJ16 "Just Published" list of 13 includes #31 Dracula
- Forum and Century, Nov 1932, pVII --advert lists G1-G7 and many to #200
- The Bookman, Dec 1932, pXI --column names also Gibbon in two volumes (G6,G7)
("modern library" "dracula") (12)
- earliest [13] NYHT 1932-01-11 p17, Lewis Gannett "Books and Things" --review Herbert Manchester, Four Centuries of Sport in America, 1490-1890 (Derrydale Press)
- ML announces for 1932 (spring evidently) several inclg Dracula ... "That is as exciting a list of reprints as has been announced since Everyman began."
- [14] NYHT 1932-02-28 pJ12 --advert includes Dreiser #8, Stoker #31 (with thumbnail cover image)
- NYT 1932-03-06 pBR24 --same
- received -03-13, -03-20 --Dreiser and Stoker
- Phi Inq -03-26 additions --Dreiser, Stoker; Crime and Punishment, Magic Mountain
- -04-10, -04-17 adverts (above)
- -05-22 now available "A Farewell to Arms" (unnumbered) dozens among 1-200
- -07-10 "New Titles! The First Time at This Price" cites 200 --lists 15 including 61, 8, 31, 200
- [15] NYHT -11-27 pI20 "Which of These 109 ... Do You Want ..." among #1-204
- NYT 1934-01-21 pBR24 "These 109 ..." among #1-213 (inclg 178 81 82, not 194)
to be continued?
("modern library giant") (21 hits, 0 0 2 4 15)
- [16] NYT 1932-02-21 pBR26 Modern Library for the next six months (incl Stoker); AND new Modern Library Giant (2, later #G4,G5)
- [17] NYHT 1932-05-01 pJ10, earliest advert found, lists 2 at $1.00 Keats & Shelley and Plutarch\Dryden
- also [a] Sanctuary, [b] Poems of Longfellow, [c] Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain, Modern Library, 95c
- also Everyman's (Dutton, 90c?)
- [18] Hart Cour 1933-04-02 pD6 regular Napoleon $0.95 ; Giant The Medici $1 (later not among #G1-G7)