Notes on Stone's Lust for Life

The first edition of Stone's Lust for Life is in the general style of the flexible balloon cloth (#7) binding, but in the larger size of the later hardcover Blumenthal (#8) binding. The endpapers are blank, even though "Endpapers designed by Rockwell Kent" is noted on the reverse of the title page.

There are at least two reports of this title with the correct first edition jacket (265 titles) in both the oversized balloon cloth format and the hard cover Blumenthal format. But the balloon cloth format came out in the Spring of 1939, while the Blumental came out in the Fall.


First copyright page text:     First Modern Library Edition

First binding style:     7

First inverse DJ number:     265

Dates in print:     1939 [spring] - 1970

Toledano number:     011.3


Confirmed DJ back styles:   g, h1, h4, h5, i, l2

Confirmed binding styles:   7, 8, 11

Confirmed buckram sighting?            yes


Intro author:     Title author

Genre:     Novel

Original language:      English


Thanks to the contributors:

Henry Toledano Sharon Biederman Joe Hill
John Krygier Bob Riedel Barry Neavill

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