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Thread Name: Strange Adano

From: John Krygier <jbkrygie@removed>
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 08:55:44 -0400

I found a copy of ML 16.3 'A Bell for Adano' by Hersey which is rather odd. I think I recall a posting on a similar copy at some time in the past, but cannot find it in the list archives I have.

I put some scans at the URL below. At first I thought this was an Asian pirate copy, but the book's endpapers and insides are all clearly ML. The catalog in the back of the book is for spring of 1947 (one year after the first). I also thought that it might be rebound, but, again, the glued in endpapers and blurb suggest this was bound as a ML edition. Seems like the ML bindery bound copies of this title without the normal book cover and DJ (and not even a price!) - but why?

Any ideas?

http://go.owu.edu/~map_/modernlibrary/adano/ml_stangeadano.html


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From: sandjtilley@removed> ((Scott Tilley)
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 13:18:16 +0000

I have one exactly like this that I picked up in Cape Cod several years ago. I at first had the same thought on the pirate edition but that did just not fit given the information as stated [in John's post]. Neat book for the collection.


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From: Readingstore@removed> ((Neal Fenty)
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 09:37:06 EDT

I am a book collector and bookseller who is new to this list, and this is my first post.

Considering the time period of the book (1947), theme of the book (" In a brilliant new Foreword, especially written for this Modern Library edition, John Hersey re-asserts his faith in the men who can secure a decent future for the world."), and no price on the jacket, perhaps it is a serviceman's issue, for the troops. Perhaps there is a clue in the Foreword.


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From: GORDON NEAVILL <aa3401@removed>
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 09:48:00 -0400

My guess is that an organization or group of some kind wanted copies for private distribution and contracted with the ML to supply them. Rather than distribute regular ML copies, they commissioned a rather generic, noncomerical looking jacket and binding. This wouldn't have been too expensive. The Wolff bindery could easily have done the job using unbound ML copies in its warehouse or copies from a current print run. (It was common, especially in the ML's early days, to store folded and sewn sheets with endpapers attached and bind them as needed -- which is why you see B&L printings with Brodzky endpapers in early ML, Inc. bindings.)

I'm speculating, but this is plausible and I can't think of any other explanation that would fit the evidence.

I'd be interested to know the date of the printing based on the ML list at the end of the volume.


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From: GOODBOOKS@removed> ((JOSEPH HILL)
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 08:26:55 -0700

As long as we are on the title- If you bring titles such as, A Bell For Adano and Deepening Stream into a used bookstore today. they tend not to be bought for re-sale, reason being they are vary "dated" So, as they are not in the stores, one would think they should command a higher price to the ML collector then they do.


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