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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


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

  1. Wells --
  2. Nietzsche, 9
  3. Maeterlinck --
  4. Wilde, 1
  5. Stevenson --
  6. Dostoyevsky, 10
  7. Schopenhauer, 12
  8. Ibsen, 6
  9. Strindberg, 2
  10. France, 7
  11. De Maupassant --
  12. 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)
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