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elsf Brian Stableford 556 (54)

elsf Norman Douglas 19173 (97) --works need work!

1901 coll Unprofessional Tales (as by Normyx, ie Douglas and wife) --"mainly fantasies" per SFE

"Elfwater" => "An Unnatural Feud" (1908 by Douglas)

=> "Nerinda" (1929 by Douglas)

1925 coll Experiments (short stories and essays)

Florence https://lccn.loc.gov/25017474 o[1839729] ; US https://lccn.loc.gov/25021408 o[2026536] ; UK o[364156]

novels

1920,21 They Went

1927 In the Beginning

HDL

Unprofessional Tales 1901 T. F. Unwin [1] vii,247 Contents (), with cover, p1-[248]

They Went 1920 Chapman & Hall, 2nd ed [2] with cover, p1-250

1921 Dodd, Mead [3] 274p; Cornell with front cover, p1-274

In the Beginning [1928] [4] 309p, with cover, states first publ May 1928, p9-309

1929 cat record as search-only 271p states "First published by Chatto and Windus September 1928 ... first issued in the Phoenix library 1929."

Nerinda [c1929] [5] 79p, no cover

Nerinda 3-66, Author's Note 69-79 concludes "So much for the genesis of Nerinda." (1899 ms., 1901 publication)

[BS]

His first fantasy, written in 1899, was Nerinda (in Unprofessional Tales coll 1901 as by Normyx; 1929), set in Pompeii, a delusional fantasy (> Delusion) about an enigmatic Femme Fatale. Unprofessional Tales also includes "Elfwater" (vt "An Unnatural Feud" 1908 US), while Experiments (coll 1925) includes the Edgar Allan Poe-esque "Nocturne" and "Queer!".

(novels) The Epicurean parable They Went (1920) employs muted supernaturalism in its deft reworking of the legend of Lyonesse (> Imaginary Lands). In the Beginning (1927) is a full-blooded fantasy featuring the allegorical adventures of a lusty demigod in the days before the All-Father inflicted morals upon mankind.

[JC]

Unprofessional Tales (coll 1901) with his wife, Elizabeth Louisa Theobaldina Fitzgibbon (1876-1916), writing together as by Normyx, consists mainly of fantasies;one of the stories here assembled was revised, as by Douglas alone, as Nerinda (1929).

(novels) In two novels of his late maturity he dramatized his strongly misogynist and persuasively "pagan" views in venues familiar to the reader of sf. They Went (1920; rev 1921) subversively promulgates a Utopian aestheticism in a land much like doomed Lyonesse. Through the tale of half-divine Linus and his imposition of a rigid civilization upon the world, In the Beginning (1927), an example of Prehistoric SF, expresses – with a more vigorous loathing than Thomas Burnett Swann could muster 40 years later – the sense that humanity's rise entailed the destruction of Eden, and of the sentient, pagan, amoral creatures who dwelt there.

Lafcadio Hearn

Japanese Fairy Tales

1918 Boni & L https://lccn.loc.gov/19001512 -HDL o[6] --"The versions of the first four tales in this volume are by Lafcadio Hearn. The others are by Grace James, Professor Basil Hall Chamberlain and others."

HDL (2 identical except title leaf?)

(Harvard) Boni and Liveright 1918;

(Michigan) Boni and Liveright undated The Penguin Series c1918

1936 Peter Pauper https://lccn.loc.gov/36018562 64pp, lists 6 o[7]

by Hearn, Prologue by Tinker; the six = 4 plus *Urashima, The woodcutter and his wife

[1948] https://lccn.loc.gov/48010949 78pp, lists 12 o[8]

by Hearn and others; 12 = 8 from 1958 plus The man who did not wish to die, The chariot that pointed south, The loving dog, *The foolish jelly-fish

[1958] https://lccn.loc.gov/58041171 60pp, lists 8 o[9]

by Hearn and others; = 4 plus *The green willow, The fountain of youth, *Urashima, ?Mother in the mirror

1979 https://lccn.loc.gov/78074515 160pp, reprint of 1918 (20 tales)

4 tales filmed as Kwaidan

"The Reconciliation" (1900) => Kurokam \ The Black Hair

"The Story of Mimi-nashi Hōichi" (1904) => Miminashi Hōichi no Hanashi \ Hoichi the Earless

"Yuki-Onna" (1904) => Yukionna \ The Woman of the Snow

(one from 1902) => Chawan no Naka \ In a Cup of Tea

HDL --among many

1899 In Ghostly Japan

1900 Shadowings 1900(3) 1901 07 07 17 19

1902 Kotto 1902(3)

1904 Kwaidan 1904(3) 1907

1914 Fantastics

1918 Japanese Fairy Tales(2, above)

[10] NYT 1918-08-04 p49 --description The Penguin Series

The Outlook -11-06 p380 (see /Bram Stoker)

[11] Chi. Trib -12-07 p12 --Burton Rascoe description Penguin as smaller/shorter; remarks on novels by size

The Dial 1918

[12] #771 1918-08-15 p131 --for September, the first four in The Penguin Series

779 -12-14 p568 review two Penguin by Hearn (Karma and JFT) $1.25

779 -12-14 p576 "Books of the Fortnight" --selection received in the last two weeks

779 -12-14 p519 --Modern Library, 14 new titles making 64 in all, 70c

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)

[13] 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

[14] 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]

The Dial lists "Soldiers Three, by Rudyard Kipling"

.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]

The Dial lists "Hazards of New Fortunes, 2 vols., by Wm. Dean Howells"

.26 Gilbert

.27 .Wells

.28 Flaubert

[29]

The Dial lists "Best French Short Stories, edited by Willard H. Wright"

.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.

"." confirms listing in The Dial --as announced for Fall 1917

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 [15]; p9-[330], [331-32] catalogue

HDL 011712472 "Leipzig, B. Tauchnitz, 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

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

Re-use of series numbers: Boni & Liveright ;; The Modern Library (or Random House); #5 Wells, The War in the Air ;; Norman Douglas, South Wind (1917); #8; #15 (Shaw) ;; Cabell, Jurgen; #25 (Howells) ;; Cabell, Beyond Life --uncertain that Howells, 2 vols., #24-25; #31 (Chekhov) ;; Stoker, Dracula

Known genre titles

1w 5w 34d 35c 43d 44y 61(? Wilde)

UK The Athenaeum "List of New Books" 1919-11-

The London Mercury #1 (November, 2/6)

Newspapers

("the modern library of the world's best books") (32 hits 1917--1925, 6 0 22* 2 0 1 0 1 0)

*17 of 22, The Dial: A Semi-Monthly

[16] #751 1917-10-11 p356 "The Fall Announcement List" (part 3), under New Editions of Standard Literature: "The Modern Library of the World's Best Books, including ... [one very long paragraph]"

Life 1917-10-18 p642 60c + 6c postage --unnumbered list to #37 except #29

Boni & Liveright, Publishers, 103 West 40th St., New York

The Dial 1919: #781(-01-11) 82 84 86 87 88 90 91 92 94 95 97 98 99 00 01== 02(-11-01), or 17 of 26 issues #781--806 (small advertisement never revised)

#781 64 vols inclg 14 just issued (no numbers) 70c, 105.1/2 W. 40th Street, New York

[17] Viereck's 1919-05-01 p93

recently published (14) + numbered list 1-52, as "hand-bound in limp croftleather" 76c postpaid --this list credits Introduction

"There are now [64] titles in the ?? and from [8 to 20] new ones are being added each Spring and Fall."

actual list of 66 FOUND at HDL

SFChron -08-23 p7 review Rezanov, Gertrude Atherton

Outlook 1919-09-03 p23 "The New Books", lists Ernest Dowson

The Athenaeum 1919-10-10 p996, review Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson, intro Arthur Symons, 70c --"We feel as we pass through the exquisite limp croftleather portals of our volume"

[18] Current Opinion 1920-05 p1

"over 80 volumes", "Four times a year newly selected books are added ..."

(list) Thirty Titles Specially Selected for Current Opinion Readers --numbered 1-30 alpha by author, 30 among #1-88

85c + 6c postage ; 121 West 40th Street

NYT 1922-03-26 p58, review as "MLotWBB. No. 103" (and 100 102 99), 95c

Hart Cour 1924-06-09 p11, retailer advert, lists a non-genre selection for summer reading, Limp Binding, 95c

Prices

60 1917

-- 1918 (no data)

70 1919

85 1920

-- 1921 (no data)

95 1922,24 ... 1931 introduction of Modern Library Giants

highest number listed/reported

18 (mid-1917?) as Previously Published

37 (end 1917?)

52 (end 1918?) as Previously Published

66 advert Viereck's 1919-05-01 p93 ("64" advert 1919 Jan to Nov)

88 Current Opinion 1920-05 p1

103 (Samuel Pepys) review NYT 1922-03-26 p58

1917: [19] 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"

[20] NYT -11-04 pBR448 "A Modern Library" review

"... 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."

1918

("the modern library" boni liveright) (19 hits 1918 --having 0 hits for the long title)

Chi. Trib -01-12 p9 "attractive pocket size formats with limp Croft-leather bindings at 60 cents" --names Haeckel, which implies 37, and supports 1917 publication of Dunsany, Chesterton

[21] Outlook -02-27 p351 publisher advert 60c +6c, numbered list 1-37

[22] The Bookman 1918-04, Boni & Liveright advert from Spring List, mentions 15 new titles and now 50 (but maybe 52? or maybe two gaps?), 60c

[23] Touchstone -08-01 p369 "A Suggestion to Congress" (Musson Book, modified), 60c +6c

same list as Musson except including 3 Kipling, 25 Howells (29 not listed)

The Dial #772 -09-05 p138, Boni & Liveright advert of other new books

"50 titles now ready ____ 16 new titles in October ____ 70c. per vol."

The Dial #777 -11-16, Aubrey Beardsley and Rodin, two reviewed at 70c

[24] Outlook -11-06 p380 "Newsy Notes" advertisement

The Penguin Series (review), "This new series ...", names 4 just published at $1.25 inclg Lafcadio Hearn, Japanese Fairy Tales

Are You a Stagnuck? (Boni & Liveright Modern Library advert) --now 66 at 70c; 101 West 40th Street

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 [25] p16 "The Modern Library Sold", "a series of about 110 modern books of note", founded 1917 with 12; [26] pD9 "Turns with a Bookworm" --"Unexpected news ..." perhaps $250,000

[27] 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

[28] 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 [29] 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

[30] 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

[31] 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 [32] 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."

[33] 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

[34] 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)

[35] NYT 1932-02-21 pBR26 Modern Library for the next six months (incl Stoker); AND new Modern Library Giant (2, later #G4,G5)

[36] 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?)

[37] Hart Cour 1933-04-02 pD6 regular Napoleon $0.95 ; Giant The Medici $1 (later not among #G1-G7)

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