[ModLib] In the beginning

[pecksgrove at aol.com]

It had been suggested to me to only collect MLs with dj, but not the Everyman series.? I'm curious, why do you wish you had collected them also.? I have thought about the Harvard collection, but there seems to be so much doubling in reprint companies.


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From: JOSEPH HILL <goodbooks at webtv.net>
To: For collectors of Modern Library books <modlib at owu.edu>
Sent: Thu, Jun 18, 2009 7:49 am
Subject: Re: [ModLib] In the beginning



Back in the Stone Age; I was a flea market regular and started picking up these 
little ML  books @ 25 cents each.
One Mr. David Park, the most knowledgeable book person I have ever known looked 
at my collection and said two things to me-
1.) "All very well Joe...but acquire them in nice condition with dust jackets."
2.) If I were you, I would also pick up the Everyman's series."
Alas, I did not take his advise on #2..

SPECIALIZE IN MODERN LIBRARY  
FOLIO SOCIETY OF LONDON
LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY
EVERYMAN'S  LIBRARY
The whole duty of art is listening for the voice of God


-----Original Message-----
From: tobylevy
Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 3:52 AM
To: modlib at owu.edu
Subject: [ModLib] In the beginning

Bill Hornick wrote: "I have wanted to collect Modern Library since I was
fifteen but postponed it for nearly fifty years."

I also was a teenager when I saw all the new MLs on the bookstore shelf
when I was a teenager in the early 60s.  But I did not start collecting
them until 1978 or 1979 when a librarian friend said to me "You know,
those modern libraries in your den would look great if they were all
placed on one shelf together.  Today  they take up eight shelves!

Toby
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