{
  "full": "\n**ALEXANDRE DUMAS, fils. CAMILLE. 1925–1970. (ML 69)**     \n\n#### 117a. First printing (1925)     \n\n[within double rules] CAMILLE | [rule] | BY | ALEXANDRE DUMAS, FILS | [rule] | Introduction by | EDMUND GOSSE | [rule] | [torchbearer A1] | [rule] | THE MODERN LIBRARY | [rule] | PUBLISHERS :: :: NEW YORK   \n\nPp. [i–iv] v–xv [xvi], [*2*], 1–270. [1–9]16     \n\n[i] half title; [ii] pub. note D4; [iii] title; [iv] Edmund Gosse’s Introduction | Printed by Permission of D. Appleton & Co. | [short rule] | First Modern Library Edition | 1925; v–xii INTRODUCTION signed p. xii: Edmund Gosse.; xiii–xv BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE signed p. xv: E. G.; [xvi] blank; [*1*] fly title; [*2*] blank; 1–270 text. *Note:* Most later printings have a manufacturing statement only on p. [iv].     \n\n*Jacket A:* Uniform typographic jacket B1.     \n\n>Text on front: 
 Written by Dumas when he was twenty-five, CAMILLE remains in its combination of freshness and form and of the feeling of the springtime of life, a singular, an astonishing piece of work. The novel and the play have been blown about the world at a fearful rate, but the story has never lost its happy juvenility, a charm that nothing can vulgarize. It is all champagne and tears - fresh perversity, fresh credulity, fresh passion, fresh pain. We have seen the play both well done and ill done – in strange places, in barbarous tongues. But nothing makes any difference – it carries with it an April air: some tender young man and some coughing young woman have only to speak the lines to give it a great place among the love-stories of the world. HENRY JAMES (*Spring 1928*)     \n\n*Jacket B:* Uniform typographic jacket D. Text on front abridged from Henry James quotation on jacket A: “A novel and play that have been blown about the world—but nothing can alter it. It is all champagne and tears—fresh passion, fresh pain—one of the great love stories of the world.” Henry James (*Fall 1930*)     \n\n> Front flap: 
 New generations of readers respond as their parents and grandparents did with unashamed tears to the sad plight of the beautiful and doomed Marguerite Gautier. *Camille* retains its fragrance through the years; it is a tale that stirs an unassuageable heartache, and over it there hovers a sentiment forever tender and yearning. It is read now as it was before and as it will be read years hence as the love story of the eternal Magdalene glorified by her passion and misfortune. (*Spring 1934*)     \n\n*Jacket C:* Pictorial in strong yellowish pink (26), pale blue (185) and black on coated cream paper depicting a woman seated in an open coach driven by a bearded coachman; title in strong yellowish pink with three-dimensional shading in black, other lettering in black. Signed: Galdone. Front flap as jacket B. (*Spring 1939*)   \n\nTranslation originally published in U.S. as *The Lady of the Camellias* in the French Classical Romances series (D. Appleton & Co., 1902). The source of the plates has not been identified; the ML edition may have been printed from plates made from a new typesetting. Published 25 October 1925. *WR* 14 November 1925. First printing: Not ascertained. Discontinued 1970.   \n\nGosse was editor-in-chief of the French Classical Romances series. His introduction and biographical note are taken from the Appleton edition, where the ML introduction constitutes the last third (pp. xxiii–xxxii) of his longer critical essay, “The Novels of Alexandre Dumas the Younger.” The ML paid Appleton a permissions fee of \\$25 for their use. The translation appears to have been in the public domain.     \n\n*Camille* sold 2,340 copies during the first half of 1928, placing it thirty-sixth among 147 ML titles. It ranked in the fourth quarter of ML sales during the eighteen-month period May 1942–October 1943.     \n\n#### 117b. Title page reset (c. 1940)   \n\nCAMILLE | *BY* | ALEXANDRE DUMAS, FILS | *Introduction by* EDMUND GOSSE | [torchbearer D1 at right; 3-line imprint at left] THE | MODERN LIBRARY | NEW YORK | [rule]   \n\nPagination and collation as 117a.   \n\nContents as 117a except: [ii] blank; [iv] publication and manufacturing statements.     \n\n*Jacket:* Enlarged version of 117a jacket 3. (*Fall 1943*) \n\n>Front flap reset with last sentence revised: “It is read now as it was in the late nineteenth century and as it will be read years hence . . .” (*Fall 1955*)     \n\n",
  "id": "117",
  "year": "1925",
  "label": "ALEXANDRE DUMAS, fils. CAMILLE. 1925–1970. (ML 69)",
  "author": "ALEXANDRE DUMAS, fils",
  "title": "CAMILLE.",
  "date": "1925–1970.",
  "something": "ML 69",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "id": "117a",
      "title": "First printing (1925)     ",
      "full": "\n\n[within double rules] CAMILLE | [rule] | BY | ALEXANDRE DUMAS, FILS | [rule] | Introduction by | EDMUND GOSSE | [rule] | [torchbearer A1] | [rule] | THE MODERN LIBRARY | [rule] | PUBLISHERS :: :: NEW YORK   \n\nPp. [i–iv] v–xv [xvi], [*2*], 1–270. [1–9]16     \n\n[i] half title; [ii] pub. note D4; [iii] title; [iv] Edmund Gosse’s Introduction | Printed by Permission of D. Appleton & Co. | [short rule] | First Modern Library Edition | 1925; v–xii INTRODUCTION signed p. xii: Edmund Gosse.; xiii–xv BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE signed p. xv: E. G.; [xvi] blank; [*1*] fly title; [*2*] blank; 1–270 text. *Note:* Most later printings have a manufacturing statement only on p. [iv].     \n\n*Jacket A:* Uniform typographic jacket B1.     \n\n>Text on front: 
 Written by Dumas when he was twenty-five, CAMILLE remains in its combination of freshness and form and of the feeling of the springtime of life, a singular, an astonishing piece of work. The novel and the play have been blown about the world at a fearful rate, but the story has never lost its happy juvenility, a charm that nothing can vulgarize. It is all champagne and tears - fresh perversity, fresh credulity, fresh passion, fresh pain. We have seen the play both well done and ill done – in strange places, in barbarous tongues. But nothing makes any difference – it carries with it an April air: some tender young man and some coughing young woman have only to speak the lines to give it a great place among the love-stories of the world. HENRY JAMES (*Spring 1928*)     \n\n*Jacket B:* Uniform typographic jacket D. Text on front abridged from Henry James quotation on jacket A: “A novel and play that have been blown about the world—but nothing can alter it. It is all champagne and tears—fresh passion, fresh pain—one of the great love stories of the world.” Henry James (*Fall 1930*)     \n\n> Front flap: 
 New generations of readers respond as their parents and grandparents did with unashamed tears to the sad plight of the beautiful and doomed Marguerite Gautier. *Camille* retains its fragrance through the years; it is a tale that stirs an unassuageable heartache, and over it there hovers a sentiment forever tender and yearning. It is read now as it was before and as it will be read years hence as the love story of the eternal Magdalene glorified by her passion and misfortune. (*Spring 1934*)     \n\n*Jacket C:* Pictorial in strong yellowish pink (26), pale blue (185) and black on coated cream paper depicting a woman seated in an open coach driven by a bearded coachman; title in strong yellowish pink with three-dimensional shading in black, other lettering in black. Signed: Galdone. Front flap as jacket B. (*Spring 1939*)   \n\nTranslation originally published in U.S. as *The Lady of the Camellias* in the French Classical Romances series (D. Appleton & Co., 1902). The source of the plates has not been identified; the ML edition may have been printed from plates made from a new typesetting. Published 25 October 1925. *WR* 14 November 1925. First printing: Not ascertained. Discontinued 1970.   \n\nGosse was editor-in-chief of the French Classical Romances series. His introduction and biographical note are taken from the Appleton edition, where the ML introduction constitutes the last third (pp. xxiii–xxxii) of his longer critical essay, “The Novels of Alexandre Dumas the Younger.” The ML paid Appleton a permissions fee of \\$25 for their use. The translation appears to have been in the public domain.     \n\n*Camille* sold 2,340 copies during the first half of 1928, placing it thirty-sixth among 147 ML titles. It ranked in the fourth quarter of ML sales during the eighteen-month period May 1942–October 1943.     \n\n"
    },
    {
      "id": "117b",
      "title": "Title page reset (c. 1940)   ",
      "full": "\n\nCAMILLE | *BY* | ALEXANDRE DUMAS, FILS | *Introduction by* EDMUND GOSSE | [torchbearer D1 at right; 3-line imprint at left] THE | MODERN LIBRARY | NEW YORK | [rule]   \n\nPagination and collation as 117a.   \n\nContents as 117a except: [ii] blank; [iv] publication and manufacturing statements.     \n\n*Jacket:* Enlarged version of 117a jacket 3. (*Fall 1943*) \n\n>Front flap reset with last sentence revised: “It is read now as it was in the late nineteenth century and as it will be read years hence . . .” (*Fall 1955*)     \n\n"
    }
  ],
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}