Thread Name: 1st of Old Wives Tales is actually in #6 binding From: kamins at ModernLib.com ((Scot Kamins) Date: Tue Aug 21 11:47:39 2007 Darrell Johnson has reported that he has a first of Bennett's Old Wives Tales (1931) in a #6 binding. Toledano lists the first as being in a #7. 1931 is late for a #6 -- does anyone have a firat of this title a #7 binding? Scot Kamins ------------------------------------- From: aa3401 at wayne.edu ((Gordon Neavill) Date: Tue Aug 21 16:57:58 2007 The #6 binding was used for the first printing of The Old Wives' Tale and the other eight ML titles published January-April 1931. I have first printings of all of these in the #6 binding. The #7 binding was first used on Gide's The Counterfeiters published in May 1931. The binding is illustrated (as balloon cloth binding C) in my old article "The Modern Library Series: Format and Design" in Printing History (v. 1, no. 1, 1979) with the dates 1930-1931. It was first used on The Philosophy of Plato (November 1930) and the two titles that followed in December 1930 (Rockwell Kent's Wilderness and Huysman's Against the Grain). Huxley's Point Counter Point was the last title published in binding 5. Barry ------------------------------------- From: kamins at ModernLib.com ((Scot Kamins) Date: Tue Aug 21 17:11:23 2007 Thanks for your comments on this material! Do you have at hand the titles of the other eight #6 1sts? Scot Kamins ------------------------------------- From: aa3401 at wayne.edu ((Gordon Neavill) Date: Tue Aug 21 17:56:27 2007 First printings in #6 binding: 1930: Plato, Works of Plato Kent, Wilderness Huysmans, Against the Grain 1931: Bennett, Old Wives' Tale Fielding, Tom Jones Boccaccio, Decameron Conrad, Lord Jim Adams, Education of Henry Adams Swift, Gulliver's Travels, Tale of a Tub, Battle of the Books Morley, Parnassus on Wheels Mansfield, Garden Party Calverton, ed., Making of Man Barry ------------------------------------- From: kamins at ModernLib.com ((Scot Kamins) Date: Tue Aug 21 18:04:16 2007 Many thanks! Scot Kamins -------------------------------------