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Ulysses | James Joyce

#MarchMagic #IrishAuthor playing catch up!I have other copies of this book , but this #ModernLibrary edition has character & a wonderful typeface!

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Charming! 2y

Ruthiella Beautiful edition, though I didn‘t enjoy reading it! 😂 2y

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Lcsmcat

Albert Camus : Notebooks 1935-1942 | Albert Camus

Our #bookhaul from The Reader‘s Corner included 4 #modernlibrary editions, all with dust jackets! Now to rearrange my shelf to put them with their fellows. 😀 @Leftcoastzen @Aimeesue @vivastory

Aimeesue Be still my heart! ❤️ 5y

Leftcoastzen You Little Rock Star!So Cool! 5y

Leftcoastzen Bet the Johnny Mercer bio will be good. 5y

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Lcsmcat @Leftcoastzen My husband is reading it right now. He was a mean drunk! 5y

Leftcoastzen Oh dear! 😬Love his music. 5y

Lcsmcat @Leftcoastzen We can separate the art from the artist. The quote my husband just read to me included him going into his hostesses closet and urinating on all her shoes. 😳 5y

Leftcoastzen Oh, wow, pretty darned rude. 5y

batsy Be still my heart! Those ML editions 😍 5y

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Leftcoastzen

New Grub Street: A Novel | George Gissing

Some of my Modern Library collection. Keep promising I will keep them all together but shelf space doesn‘t always work out.The 3 brown ones next to the giant are the earliest ones .I don‘t know if that series ever had dust jackets.They are cloth and/or leatherette and flexible. I‘ll quit nerding out now 😂

Aimeesue, vivastory

Lcsmcat I‘m on my way home from my favorite used bookstore with a prize - four #modernlibrary editions! I‘ll post a picture when I get home. 5y

Leftcoastzen @Lcsmcat Yay! 5y

Trashcanman 😊😔 5y

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batsy Oooh ❤️ 5y

Tanisha_A Gosh! 😍 5y

Suet624 Wonderful! 5y

Nute Wow! That is the coolest collection!😍 5y

Leftcoastzen @Nute Thank you ! I love my little Modern Library editions. 5y

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Aimeesue

Anna Karenina (Modern Library Classics): A Novel by the Russian Author Leo Tolstoy | Leo Tolstoy

GIANTs on the right, with some regularly sized MLS to the left.
#ModernLibrary

Leftcoastzen, vivastory

vivastory Amazing!! I'm going by HPB tomorrow, will definitely be on the lookout for ML editions! 5y

Aimeesue @vivastory Good luck! 5y

Lcsmcat Cool! 5y

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quirkyreader @vivastory good luck. At one point in the late 80‘s early 90‘s they were everywhere. 5y

Leftcoastzen Woot , woot! Love them! 5y

Leftcoastzen @vivastory I think there is a HPB coupon this weekend. 5y

Liz_M I love that Look Homeward, Angel is almost as thick as War and Peace. It certainly felt longer than W&P! 😆😁 5y

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Leftcoastzen

The Collected Works of John Reed | John Reed

Continuing our Modern Library conversation, an old ML Giant of U.S.A.Trilogy next to my Reed from 1995 .
Newer ones are the size of the old giants .
#ModernLibrary

Aimeesue, vivastory

vivastory I noticed several Baldwin editions that were also published in '95 & I think are the same size as the Reed 5y

vivastory Library of Congress has collected editions, but the font on those can be really hit & miss. Sometimes it's too small. I try to find the ML or Everyman's editions, even if it's a little more costly. 5y

Aimeesue Ahhhh! I love the littler ones, though. They‘re just such a nice size. I also can‘t stay away from Slightly Foxed editions, even though they‘re much more expenses and have to be shipped from England. 5y

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Leftcoastzen @vivastory I enjoy the thrill of the hunt ! know what you mean about the Library of Congress ones & font, I have some of those too. 5y

Leftcoastzen @Aimeesue I love the little ones too! Some of the early ones are quite valuable.so far I‘ve not gone for the Slightly Foxed , very tempting. (edited) 5y

Aimeesue @Leftcoastzen The SF Editions are so lovely. I usually look for them used on Abe, but for my birthday my husband got me a SF subscription that includes one book with each Quarterly. Best present ever! 😄 5y

Leftcoastzen @Aimeesue Wow, that‘s wonderful! 5y

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Leftcoastzen

Twentieth Century American Poetry | Conrad Aiken

2 of 2 for @Aimeesue and @vivastory 😃
#ModernLibrary

vivastory Do they still publish hardback? I know that they have a lot of paperbacks, but it seems like Everyman's Library has taken their place in terms of affordable hardcover editions the past few years.. 5y

LeahBergen I love these old lists. ❤️ 5y

Leftcoastzen @vivastory I think they still have some in print, my newest one is the writings of John Reed but it was from way back in 1995.Everyman might be doing more titles.There were some new hardcover on Amazon.this one was from 1944 very clean price was $1.65 5y

Aimeesue @vivastory They do publish some, but it looks like they're not all the same size maybe? And they're bigger that the old Blumenthal bindings. Some of the older ones were off- sized, too - the "GIANT" MLs. I have a few of those. 5y

Leftcoastzen @LeahBergen me too! 5y

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Leftcoastzen

Twentieth Century American Poetry | Conrad Aiken

For @Aimeesue and @vivastory part 1 of 2 the books listed inside dust jacket of the Modern Library volume I bought last weekend.#ModernLibrary

vivastory Answer: All of them! Thanks for posting!! I'll have to keep an eye out for an old edition. This is amazing 💙🙌 5y

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Aimeesue

The African Queen | C. S. Forester

ModLib haul from Riverby Books today. I adore the cover for The African Queen. Hope it‘s not as racist as I fear it‘s going to be. The one without a DJ is A High Wind in Jamaica.
#ModernLibrary

quirkyreader You got some major scores. 5y

Aimeesue @quirkyreader Chance favors the prepared Book Hunter. 😂 5y

Crazeedi 👍❤ 5y

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Lcsmcat Excellent! 5y

LeahBergen Nice!! 👍🏼 5y

Liz_M The Counterfeiters is my favorite Gide! 💕 5y

Tanisha_A Aha! 5y

Aimeesue @Liz_M I've never read any Gidé before, but I will buy a ML no matter who wrote it. Looking forward to it! ? 5y

Aimeesue @Crazeedi @Lcmscat @LeahBergen @Tanisha_A Some days I get really lucky at the used bookstores. Some days all I see is Twilight and 7000 copies of Dickens novels. 😋 (edited) 5y

Leftcoastzen I love modern library too! Nice to see these. 5y

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jillrhudy

Vita: The Life of Vita Sackville-West | Victoria Glendinning

#bookhaul from today‘s trip to my favorite two bookstores in Johnson City! Two Modern Library eds for the collection, a Mitford Folio, 3 Pratchetts etc. $58. #bookstack #bookstore #modernlibrary #foliofreaks

Aimeesue I'm jealous! 5y

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Aimeesue

The Enormous Room | E.E. Cummings

NF haul, plus the Modern Library e.e. cummings I forgot in last post.
#modernlibrary

Nute Nice! 5y

vivastory I LOVE Edward Hirsch's books 5y

Aimeesue @Nute I was excited! 5y

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Aimeesue @vivastory I‘d never heard of him, but it seemed like something I should read. I don‘t read much poetry, but it feels like I should. (I‘ll just note here that I CAN recite Jabberwocky and On Flanders Field from memory tho) 5y

Lcsmcat The Enormous Room was a surprise hit for me when I read it. Very different from his poetry. 5y

vivastory Very impressive, Jabberwocky is one of my favorites. Hirsch is great at being accessible & informative without talking down. He's so genuinely passionate about poetry & it really comes across. 5y

Leftcoastzen I love the Cummings too. 5y

BarbaraBB Me too 5y

Aimeesue @Lcsmcat I found it in a poetry display! I bought it because it was a ML edition, but didn't realize it was prose until I got it home. 5y

Aimeesue @Leftcoastzen @BarbaraBB I am so glad to hear that! The "A Note on the Author" intro is cracking me up. ? 5y

Lcsmcat @Aimeesue Funny! I knew it was prose, but also bought it because it was ML. 5y

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