[ModLib] In the beginning

[pecksgrove at aol.com]

Interesting!? I found the 3 vol Gibbon in an antique mall in KC on the river, and bought it right up, covers and all.? Good info on the everyman.


-----Original Message-----
From: JOSEPH HILL <goodbooks at webtv.net>
To: For collectors of Modern Library books <modlib at owu.edu>
Sent: Fri, Jun 19, 2009 11:53 am
Subject: Re: [ModLib] In the beginning



I have about 50 Oxford classics for sale; 
The hot? sellers in the series are the Tolstoy
titles...Wht Is Art?, What I Believe,What Then Must We Do?, The Kingdom of God & Peace Essays, Essays? On Religion,etc.
The big problem with the Oxford? World's Classics is they have little inside margin

What Everyman's series has over the Modern Library is scholarship...just to give a few examples..
All the Dickens novels have a introduction by G.K. Chesterton
Take a classic, such as Canterbury Tales, compare?? the notes,introduction etc ML vs. EL.
On the Gibbon; I can't sell the three? volume ML Giant and? can always sell the six volume EL set...when I can find it. ,..

The Everyman's Library cannon contains treasures such as the three volume
Robert Burton, Anatomy Of Melancholy.
It's true, the series does contain some dogs...what series doesn't? 


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

From: pecksgrove at aol.com
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 8:43 AM
To: modlib at owu.edu
Subject: Re: [ModLib] In the beginning


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.


-----Original Message-----
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
____________________________________________________________
Now accepting future chefs! Click to take your cooking skills to the next level.
http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/BLSrjpTIvk9PRi3siL0e3sxWOQwrdgPtcba3o7ZO2X9EWZMDKiNdWEjXb0E/
_______________________________________________
ModLib mailing list
ModLib at owu.edu
http://thuban.owu.edu/mailman/listinfo/modlib


_______________________________________________
ModLib mailing list
ModLib at owu.edu
http://thuban.owu.edu/mailman/listinfo/modlib



Dell Inspiron 15: Now starting at $349 




_______________________________________________
ModLib mailing list
ModLib at owu.edu
http://thuban.owu.edu/mailman/listinfo/modlib

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://thuban.owu.edu/pipermail/modlib/attachments/20090628/78a79795/attachment.html