Thread Name: Illustrated MLs in #8 Bindings From: jpetersonlhi at frontier.com (john peterson) Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 16:07:45 -0400 I?ve been lucky enough to find several Illustrated MLs in #8 bindings, and I remember several brief discussions on this list serve about the subject. Today I found Franklin?s Autobiography. I already had one, but this one is different in that it has none of the illustrations by Benton. It doesn?t appear that the illustration pages have been cut out of this copy, but that it was bound without them. I guess they ran out of the illustrations and just bound remaining copies without them. I?m curious if anyone else has found a copy of a ML Illustrated like this? John Peterson ------------------------------------- From: willthemad at aol.com (Bill Hornick) Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 22:41:47 -0400 John, I found a copy of Don Quixote by Cervantes in a binding #8. It has none of the color illustrations but does contain all of the text pages with the embedded black and white drawings. Nowhere is Dali credited with the black and white drawings. Also, the title page is different with the title shortened to just "Don Quixote." There is no copyright page. Scot listed this variety in the BookNotes when I sent him the information. It is my only Illustrated ML in a #8 binding. Bill Hornick ------------------------------------- From: andrew at ghouse.org (Andrew Benedict-Nelson) Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 11:18:03 -0500 I have an illustrated Crime and Punishment in #8. Always wondered what might explain it... it's the only one like that I've ever seen. ANDREW BENEDICT-NELSON Founder, GreenHouse Innovator-in-Residence, USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work ------------------------------------- From: jbkrygier at owu.edu (John Krygier) Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 13:01:46 -0400 In my continued accumulation of 20th century reprint series I can with certainty say that publishers were a thrifty bunch. That the Modern Library bound left over illustrated titles in regular bindings, and even bound up copies after they ran out of the illustrations is not that surprising. Cape bound up left over and slow selling Traveller?s Library titles as the St. Giles Library in 1940. The English Masterpieces were rebound copies of left over printed sheets from the Carlton Classics. The Greek Lamp Library included some books from other series, wrapped in the Greek Lamp Library jacket and sold as such. Grossett and Dunlap started off by buying remaindered paperback books and binding them in hardcovers and selling them (cheaply, but they made a profit). Early on they also bought unbound sheets from various publishers and bound and sold them (sometimes with the original publisher?s imprint on the title page). The dust jackets for Nimmo?s Miniatures were printed on the back of left over book illustrations. The jackets for some early Collins? Classics titles are printed on the reverse of discontinued Winston?s Illustrated Handy Classics jackets. And so on. Series book publishing seemed to have been largely about squeezing a bit more revenue out of old titles, and not much was left to waste. John K. ------------------------------------- From: andrew at ghouse.org (Andrew Benedict-Nelson) Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 12:18:55 -0500 Hey, power to them! -------------------------------------