Thread Name: Binding 6 date ranges. From: zebradlj at yahoo.com (Darrell Johnson) Date: Sun Oct 14 15:28:03 2007 In-Reply-To: <B985DCF3-AEBD-46CB-A7F2-473606DE0498@Modern I was cataloguing my ML's into my database and noted that I had 4 or 5 titles in binding 6 with "First Modern Library Edition 1931" stated. Henry's most recent price guide confines binding 6 to 1930 - 1930 with binding 7 running 1931-1939. I seem to recall the earlier price guide had binding 7 running 1930-1939, leaving open the possibility that a very active title might have been printed in three different bindings in 1930 alone. What is the actual status of the transition from 6 to 7. Was it a clean split or was there quite a bit of overlap in ceasing 6 and starting 7? I also noticed that I had a few 6's with Bernard end papers. I recall a discussion a while back on that point. The discussion included the claim that ML tended to use up old end papers here and there during the transition from Bernard to Kent end papers. And apparently they took from one to two years to use them up in this rather random fanshion. One other question: I had several 5 bindings with nice gilt on the spine, barely worn covers but no hint that there ever was any gilt on the cover. Were some books produced with merely a blind stamped covers and no gilt? Or do some books simply shed their gilt quite easily and very thouroughly? Darrell ------------------------------------- From: kamins at ModernLib.com (Scot Kamins) Date: Sun Oct 14 15:41:25 2007 The ModernLib Regular Binding Styles page reports that this style was primarily in use November 1930 - May 1931: http://www.modernlib.com/Identifiers/bindingsReg/bindingsReg.html ML collectors should ALWAYS verify Guide entries against ModernLib entries, the former being a fixed document completed eight years ago and the latter being a living system updated constantly. As to clean splits, with Modern Library such fastidiousness was seldom observed. Scot Kamins ------------------------------------- From: kamins at ModernLib.com (Scot Kamins) Date: Sun Oct 14 15:43:52 2007 Forgot to mention this in my last post. Once again, the ModernLib Quick Guide to Regular Binding Styles has this note on Style 5: "Barry Neavill notes that this design required a large amount of gold leaf and added half a cent per volume to the binding cost. That extra half-cent doomed it to a short life. The seven titles published during summer and early fall of 1930 retained the grape vine on the spine but blind-stamped the torchbearer on the front cover." Scot Kamins -------------------------------------