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Member: Django6924CollectionsYour library (766) Reviews3 reviews TagsThe Limited Editions Club (280), Folio Society (269), Heritage Press (85), Scribner's Illustrated Classics (3), Franklin Library (3), Everyman's Library (2), Easton Press (2), The Ward Ritchie Press (1), Arion Press (1), The Franklin Library (1) — see all tags Cloudstag cloud, author cloud, tag mirror About meCinematographer--nearly retired!--who caught the bibliophile bug when I was about 5. Always insisted on having my own copy of any book I wanted, and now I may have to move to a larger home to accommodate my books. About my libraryFiction, history, biography--mostly classic stuff, but I do have a weakness for mysteries. GroupsBarbara Pym, E. F. Benson, Easton Press Collectors, Everyman's Library, Fine Press Forum, George Macy devotees, I Love Jane Austen, Library of America Subscribers LocationUSA EmailDjango6924 Favorite authorsNot set Account typepublic, lifetime URLs
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They have that same wrapping as you can see in the first picture.
I just discovered Nash fairly recently, but he is one of my new favorites!
-Aarjb
posted by aaronpepperdine at 10:31 am (EST) on Apr 19, 2013
I periodically invite people to Tattered who seem to collect the odd older stuff. Not enough of us, in my opinion.
Ruth
posted by 2wonderY at 10:46 am (EST) on Apr 4, 2013
I have a cheap Folio Society copy circa 1999, but I first read it in 1958 while stationed at Itazuki AFB, Japan. There was a nice Japanese theatre that specialized in showing classic American films. I saw a double feature of The Grapes of Wrath and A Place in the Sun (An American Tragedy). Then I checked out and read both books. It's been a long time since 1958 so I know I will enjoy Grapes of Wrath, and I have been meaning to reread my LEC of An American Tragedy.
Thanks for your help in determining to keep the Benton lithos intact. If I get this one, I will have all of the Benton illustrated books.
posted by leccol at 1:19 am (EST) on Feb 4, 2013
I have some questions about one of your favorite books: The Grapes of Wrath. There was a copy listed on ebay, but it was not in too good of shape so I asked the seller about the inside condition thinking I might rebind it. The seller replied that it couldn't be rebound because the end pages would have to be replaced, causing 8 Benton lithographs to be lost. But I have seen rebound copies on ebay prior to this. Also, at the time period this book was published (1940), lithographs were taken directly from the stone and tipped in. My questions are: 1) are there really some lithos on the end pages or are there just a few illustrations on the end pages and 2) if there are 8 illustrations are there some on the reverse of the free end pages. There are no copies of this book rated as Fine currently on the internet. I have lost some illustrtions before when I rebound an LEC, but never what I would call an original litho. Right now, since there are no Fine copies, I would like to rebind a copy. I have all the other books illustrated by Benton, but none have illustrations of any kind on the end pages.
I haven't forgoten that you requested a picture of my rebound Don Quixote, and I think you would like what I have done with The Red Badge of Courage. I have yet to get some photo lights, but when I do, I'll send you some pics.
Don Floyd (Leccol)
posted by leccol at 8:43 pm (EST) on Feb 3, 2013
Happy New Year!
What's your opinion of the LEC Moonstone? (I always assume that you have all but the most scarce/expensive LEC's!) I really like Dignimont's illustrations for The Wanderer so am curious how he handled The Moonstone. I'd be interested to compare it to the Arion Press edition I recently reviewed on The Whole Book Experience.
Kind Regards,
J.
posted by jveezer at 11:11 pm (EST) on Jan 25, 2013
posted by varielle at 4:56 pm (EST) on Dec 21, 2012
I'm alive and well just busy trying to get my business off the ground so haven't been posting a lot. Hope you are having a lovely holiday season and that we can get together for one of our book discussions soon.
J.
posted by jveezer at 9:48 am (EST) on Dec 2, 2012
I would be all over this if I was not in one of the worst financial binds I've experienced! XD You can pass along the list, though; I don't know, but maybe my wife would be interested in perusing for Christmas or something. Thanks for thinking of me!
~ Jerry
posted by WildcatJF at 7:01 pm (EST) on Dec 1, 2012
Please make a fair price including shipping to Switzerland.
Best regards,
Sergeberrut@bluewin.ch
posted by Maretzo at 12:01 am (EST) on Nov 14, 2012
posted by busywine at 11:10 pm (EST) on Aug 17, 2012
posted by busywine at 11:10 pm (EST) on Aug 17, 2012
Little confused by the LEC Last Chance posting...are you getting rid of some?
posted by WildcatJF at 10:52 pm (EST) on Aug 17, 2012
posted by SirFolio16 at 9:54 pm (EST) on Aug 17, 2012
posted by varielle at 7:44 pm (EST) on Aug 9, 2012
posted by varielle at 11:02 am (EST) on Aug 9, 2012
Re: Le roi et l'oiseau
Yes, I must get hold of it too. I've seen extracts from it on YouTube. Apparently it took so long for it to be completed that the later animation is in a different style to that of the 1952 release, of whose 62 minutes only about 40 found their way into the 1980 version (though I'm sure there will now be a DVD around that has a fully restored version.
I posted a comment yesterday on Pierre Watrin and his switch from books to movies under Wildcat's recent review of Revolt of the Angels.
Jack (featherwate)
posted by featherwate at 10:39 am (EST) on Jul 25, 2012
posted by chase.donaldson at 4:40 pm (EST) on Feb 11, 2012
Thanks for the concern. Some of it is financial, but I am by no means hurting too bad. I have some duplicates, and there are space concerns as well (we have another boy coming in May). Some of it is that I am selling/trading to get other books that I want more. Call it a spring cleaning :) I thought that your business was picking up a little bit? I haven't been participating much these days on the forums but I do read them and continue to enjoy them, even the more confrontational ones. I particularly enjoyed your recent anecdote about the Analects. Best wishes to you.
Chase
posted by chase.donaldson at 11:26 pm (EST) on Jan 30, 2012
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posted by olepuppy at 8:37 pm (EST) on Apr 18, 2011
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posted by veilofisis at 9:04 pm (EST) on Mar 31, 2011
Thanks again,
J
posted by veilofisis at 7:24 pm (EST) on Mar 31, 2011
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posted by chase.donaldson at 12:04 am (EST) on Feb 7, 2011
Does your LibraryThing user ID have anything to do with the Django Python Web framework?
posted by kdweber at 12:00 am (EST) on Jan 21, 2011
posted by varielle at 12:36 pm (EST) on Jan 7, 2011
posted by varielle at 5:17 pm (EST) on Dec 30, 2010
I would be interested in a list of books remaining, if you are still offering.
bob@priceminer.net
posted by pm11 at 5:06 pm (EST) on Dec 23, 2010
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posted by varielle at 4:37 pm (EST) on Oct 31, 2010
I am interested The Jungle by Upton Sinclair that you’ve mentioned some time ago in the George Macy group. Is this book still available for sale?
Regards
Stephan
posted by Stephan68 at 11:13 am (EST) on Oct 30, 2010
The illustration in your profile ... what is it from?
posted by GiltEdge at 9:20 am (EST) on Oct 7, 2010
posted by chase.donaldson at 6:18 pm (EST) on Oct 4, 2010
posted by jveezer at 11:08 am (EST) on Sep 25, 2010
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posted by chase.donaldson at 12:28 pm (EST) on Aug 28, 2010
Just wanted to know what you were thinking about the Penal Colony. I was hoping to get 200 for it.
posted by chase.donaldson at 4:48 pm (EST) on Aug 26, 2010
posted by ironjaw at 8:26 am (EST) on May 15, 2010
posted by moosiferjones at 5:41 am (EST) on Feb 26, 2010
Sadly I do not know much about Mrs. Bridge, but seems interesting. I considered also the Melville. I guess your right FS is probably enough. I was reading through the Folio 60 and the prospectus yesterday night and have already found many titles that I wish toy acquire. I found something interesting though in the Folio 60, a Hemingway short stories signed by the author. (can't remember what page) I am not sure whether that means it was signed by Hemingway itself as that could not be as he passed away in 1961. I will have to look it up.
posted by ironjaw at 12:13 pm (EST) on Feb 15, 2010
I hope it is okay that I am contacting you. You have an immense knowledge about books and I always read and respect your post at the FS Devotees page.
I read that you are a Arion Press member. I am thinking about becoming a subscriber and wanted to know how much you budget each year for their titles as I read you have to buy every title every year. I have also considered maybe just buying one off's but their catelogue is tempting esp. Don Quixote.
It is an expensive affair especially with all those LE from FS :)
Any advice would be welcoming
posted by ironjaw at 1:11 pm (EST) on Feb 13, 2010
posted by Pepys at 5:41 am (EST) on Feb 1, 2010
posted by varielle at 10:26 am (EST) on Jan 27, 2010
posted by varielle at 9:12 pm (EST) on Jan 25, 2010
best,
Jerry Morris
posted by moibibliomaniac at 7:46 pm (EST) on Nov 17, 2009
posted by BorisG at 9:31 am (EST) on Oct 15, 2009
posted by pm11 at 11:27 am (EST) on Oct 13, 2009
Check out Oak Knoll Books online. They have a 60% off sale, including a $34 Zadig by Voltaire.
posted by pm11 at 9:24 pm (EST) on Oct 2, 2009
posted by Pepys at 4:28 am (EST) on Aug 14, 2009
posted by overthemoon at 4:19 pm (EST) on Aug 3, 2009
posted by haniwitch at 12:20 am (EST) on Jul 15, 2009
I'm afraid I haven't been to Regina so I can't give you any recommendations other than to say that it's supposed to be a very nice little city. My only experience with Saskatchewan is a couple of towns along the Manitoba border (which is the province I live in). Hope you enjoy your stay there.
posted by haniwitch at 11:59 pm (EST) on Jun 24, 2009
By the way, I note the 5-star rating for Marquez. I agree wholeheartedly on Marquez and recently finished Love in the Time of Cholera (also wonderful).
posted by pm11 at 1:56 pm (EST) on Jun 8, 2009
"(continued)
A later (and far superior) bio by Eleanor Ruggles set the record straight. She discounted Lindsay's paranoid account of Souther's "conspiracy" to prevent him from moving back into the family home.
My psychobiographical take is that Latham Souther, Lindsay's neighbor and near contemporary, served as a model of the "good son" that Lindsay's father could have pointed to. Vachel dropped out of medical school, disappointing Dr. Lindsay whereas Latham followed in his father's banking business. I've also (in my own fevered imagination) drawn a dotted line from my arch-conservative great-grandfather to Vachel to Vachel's friend Lewis Sinclair to Sinclair's archetypal character George Babbitt. Every description of Souther I've ever read, both positive and negative, match Babbitt to a T. Maybe Souther coincidentally fit the profile that Lewis outlined but it is uncanny and there are very few degrees of separation."
posted by pm11 at 8:30 pm (EST) on Jun 2, 2009
I thought you might find this series of posts from Facebook interesting. A friend of mine still lives in Springfield, Illinois and is a member of the Vachel Linsday Association.Great quiz.
The opening comment is a suggested question from me for a Springfield, Illinois quiz Larry was creating.
Robert Miner. Great quiz. Much better than the other one. I've got one to add:
Which well-known 20th Century writer who produced classic translations of such works as The Iliad and the Odyssey graduated from Springfield High School?
a. Robert Fitzgerald
b. Richmond Lattimore
c. Robert Fagles
d. Robert Graves
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Larry Stevens at 6:26pm June 2
Well done. Adding Fitz crossed my mind but I couldn't come up with a good question off the top of my head. Same for Barrett Deems, another famouse SHS alum.
A letter from Vachel Lindsay to Susan Wilcox was unearthed a few years ago in which VL inquired after the young Robert Fitzgerald whose student work he had just read in a journal Ms Wilcox had sent him.
Robert Miner at 6:42pm June 2
That's cool. Susan Wilcox had a huge impact and must have been a wonderful teacher.
I'm on a book blog where a cinematographer was making a strong case for Vachel Lindsay's legacy and I thought about your comments on your Facebook page. I have mixed feelings about him as a writer, but take a special rooting interest in him as a hometown favorite.
Larry Stevens at 7:03pm June 2
We (the VL Assn) had his grandson, Nick Lindsay, an indy film maker, come give a lecture in Spfld a few years ago. I asked him if thought the VL bio would make a good film and he said no.
Lindsay did write the very first book of film criticism so his legacy is secure in that regard.
I have to tell you my own revelation which I hope is not too long for this comment field. I knew that VL was a friend of my great-grandmother, Lyna Souther, and that he had given her some book as a present. I ended up finding the book at the Sangamon Valley Collection. It was a utopian tract by a famouse Gothic Revival architect that proposed the creation of Walled Towns (the title) to save humanity from the ravages of modernism. Lindsay inscribed it to my g-grandma and filled it with critical annotations. He was trying to sell his notion of a University of Springfield to her and her elite friends.... Read More
Larry Stevens at 7:15pm June 2
. . . (continued from previous post)
In researching all this, I googled Lindsay+Souther and found a reference to a letter in a library collection addressed to my great-grandfather, Latham Souther. The letter addressed him as the Trust Officer of the estate of VL's father.
My blood ran cold. The trust officer of the Lindsay estate was cast as the main villain of Masters' bio of VL. The name of the person was omitted from all of the bios for legal reasons. Masters all but blamed him for Lindsay's suicide. I quizzed my father about this and he knew nothing about it. I verified from published letters by Lindsay that he hated my great-grandfather, that Souther was always telling him that he had to quit writing poetry and get a real job. Lindsay had built up this animus into a full blown conspiracy wherein he was being banished from Springfield like Dante from Florence. Masters bought Lindsay's story whole and retold the banishment story in the bio. (continued) . . .
Robert Miner at 7:22pm June 2
Larry, this is amazing. What a find. Sorry your great-grandfather is on the villain side of the story. I've got to figure out how to send this to my friend on the book blog site. I think he would find it interesting.
posted by pm11 at 8:27 pm (EST) on Jun 2, 2009
posted by varielle at 5:27 pm (EST) on May 11, 2009
I remember the Latin teacher saying at exam time (to widespread incomprehension and titter) that "wise virgins will bring spare pens." Well, at least one of the girls knew why she put it like that!
best wishes, GG
posted by Goldengrove at 2:36 pm (EST) on Mar 26, 2009
i have recently joined LibraryThing and note that you have an extensive LEC collection. This is my main area of interest. I note that you have the 1951 edition of Anna Karenina. I just bought a copy of this on Ebay, but after I bought it I noticed a set on ABE that mentioned a dust jacket. I tried to contact the bookseller to determine if it really had a dust jacket or if he was describing the glassine covers, but i did not get any response. Do you know if it came with a printed paper dust jacket?
I am also interested in acquiring early (the first 100) monthly letters. Do you know of a source for these? The newsletters, I think, are fascinating ephemera and display Macy's great love of books and are also wonderful exapmles of mid 20th century salesmanship.
posted by atrco at 9:35 am (EST) on Feb 25, 2009
For some reason I never picked this up at the time, but have just looked him up now. And his colour images are fantastic. We had a programme here in the UK last year about colour photography & cinematography of the Edwardian 10s, the 20s and the 30s, including Albert Khan. I thought Khan's photos were magic in the way they recpatured the early 20th century (and beautiful as artistic images too!) but if anything P-G outdoes these.
So thanks for the suggestion, sorry it has taken me so long to follow it up.
posted by zenomax at 4:00 am (EST) on Feb 11, 2009
posted by overthemoon at 4:24 am (EST) on Jan 24, 2009
I have some pieces posted at a couple of places--I'll give you a couple of links in a private message.
posted by Medellia at 7:07 pm (EST) on Nov 17, 2008
posted by Medellia at 11:08 pm (EST) on Nov 15, 2008
posted by chase.donaldson at 6:44 pm (EST) on Oct 1, 2008
posted by overthemoon at 2:53 pm (EST) on Sep 19, 2008
I noticed today on the FS website that the elusive, Folio Society tote bags are being offered to those who purchase 4(!) books today. Knowing your perpetual angst in never having been offered this exclusive luxury, I thought that I'd bring this to your attention. I hope that you can contain your excitement.
Nancy and I are very thankful that Ike has left us relatively undamaged. Two elm trees in our front yard are about fifteen feet shorter than they were previously, but we received no damage to the house whatsoever. A tornado touched down only 150 from us, toppling two seventy-foot elms into neighboring property, so things could have been different. We still have no electricity and are unlikely to have it restored for several days yet. We are staying with friends who have two children that just left home for college (leaving guestrooms in the process) and who have electricity.
Cheers,
Steve
posted by teebweeb at 2:20 pm (EST) on Sep 18, 2008
Just letting you know that the books will be sent off tomorrow. Sorry for my delay, but things have started to get crazy at school.
posted by chase.donaldson at 12:53 am (EST) on Sep 17, 2008
posted by chase.donaldson at 5:28 pm (EST) on Sep 9, 2008
The link for the Brothers K is below. They dropped the price to $65 too, and just so you know, there is a 15% discount on the Powells site if you use VISA08 as a coupon code.
http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=1188633625&searchurl=bi%3D0...
posted by chase.donaldson at 12:20 pm (EST) on Sep 6, 2008
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posted by chase.donaldson at 12:55 am (EST) on Sep 3, 2008
posted by chase.donaldson at 12:55 am (EST) on Sep 3, 2008
I was perusing your library (just realized your image is from Gawain and the Green Knight--hoping to work that into nightstand rotation very soon!) and saw Memoirs of a Georgian Rake. It looks equally appetizing. I don't think, off the top of my head, I can counter your Smith of Smiths with a recommendation of my own...was going to use Aubrey's Brief Lives but I see you have that one. Man is it funny.
Actually, a really good source for somewhat under-known books is Michael Dirda...he's a reviewer for the Washington Post and has several volumes of reviews out. His latest book, Classics for Pleasure, is sort of an alternative canon. He mentions Petronius, Aubrey, Georgette Heyer, Jacob Burckhardt (his Renaissance essay), Gawain, and quite a few others. Actually, in his penultimate book, "Bound to Please", he wrote a review of a book you might like called "The Lunar Men". It's about a group of men--Darwin's grandfather, Wedgwood, James Watt, and some others--and their interactions, experiments, and lives in general in 18th c. England. Lots of anecdotes and such. The author, Jenny Uglow, also wrote a biography of Hogarth that was wonderful. It too has lots of stories, anecdotes, and scenes from London in the reign of George II (one of those kings no one notices, which is perhaps fortunate, as he died on the toilet). She goes into detail about the play, "The Beggar's Opera", and Sam Johnson makes a few appearances, as do Joshua Reynolds, Garrick, and some other Literary Club alums.
posted by uncultured at 2:42 am (EST) on Jul 5, 2008
Never heard of this, what exactly is it? It's not on Gutenberg (or my other internet resource, www.archive.org, which has online editions of Thraliana, Walpole's letters, and the journals of Charles Greville). I found a few pages of preview on amazon but no description.
Speaking of Greville, he's not too bad a diarist, though the only editions I can find are reprints of a 1908 volume that, though it advertises "Hitherto Unpublished Extracts", is fairly clean and decent, though it does an excellent job of describing country house weekends and some minor scandals such as duels, eccentricities, and things of that nature. But maybe he just didn't put that sort of thing in his diary.
I suspect that between Boswell, Pepys, and Casanova, I've become quite spoiled in terms of what I expect from a diarist, and when combined with the spate of unbowdlerized translations that have come out in the past 10-20 years (the Pevear-Volkohnsky team tackling Russia and Dumas, the new Proust editions, etc.), I've really gotten finicky about reading the "correct" edition of something. War and Peace alone found me in the bookstore with the Briggs and P-V editions open to the same page, comparing and contrasting...Modern biography is the same way, each new version advertising newly found documents, secret letters, private information previous biographers were bribed to keep out, etc etc. It makes me quite neurotic, literarily.
Just to throw one more question out before I finish--Have you checked out Casanova's Memoirs? He's a great memoirist--I'm reading Volumes 1-2 right now, and he's in Turkey contemplating an offer to marry a Muslim aristocrat's daughter. It's surely exaggerated, but great fun. It's the Willard Trask translation; prior to him translations were based on an edition that was not only censored, but altered as well.
posted by uncultured at 1:57 am (EST) on Jul 3, 2008
I just found this incredible website, www.archive.org, while doing a search for Walpole's letters--I'm finding all sorts of long lusted-after diaries and books from the 18th century. They have a VERSION of Thraliana--not the two volume edition from 1951 (put out by Oxford I think) but a separate, earlier version from 1913 that always has the phrase "With Hitherto Unpublished Extracts" in the title. Also have the Letters from Princess Lieven to Metternich--Lieven was pretty nasty customer, but she apparently was very smart and spot on re: gossip and England at the time. Just thought you'd be interested!
posted by uncultured at 2:44 am (EST) on Jun 13, 2008
P.S. I also posted this on the Arabian Nights thread in the Easton Press group.
posted by LucasTrask at 8:45 pm (EST) on Jun 5, 2008
I wonder why you can't transfer the details, isn't it automatic? As for the cover art - well I don't have a scanner and don't really like those flat pics so always try to do something a bit artsy. At the moment I'm struggling with the Age of Illumination, have made several attempts at it but am never satisfied.
You should normally be able to choose them from the "member uploaded covers" thing.
posted by overthemoon at 2:16 pm (EST) on May 29, 2008
I was very interested to see that he was the Gill of the Gill Sans, didn't realise that!
posted by overthemoon at 2:12 pm (EST) on May 29, 2008