{
  "full": "\n**REMY DE GOURMONT. A NIGHT IN THE LUXEMBOURG. 1926–1932. (ML 120)**  \n\n#### 125. First printing (1926)  \n\n[within double rules] A NIGHT IN THE | LUXEMBOURG | [rule] | BY | REMY DE GOURMONT | [rule] | PREFACE AND APPENDIX | BY | ARTHUR RANSOME | [rule] | [torchbearer A2] | [rule] | THE MODERN LIBRARY | PUBLISHERS : NEW YORK  \n\nPp. [1–8] 9–215 [216–224]. [1–7]16  \n\n[1] half title; [2] pub. note A4; [3] title; [4] *First Modern Library Edition* | 1926; [5] CONTENTS; [6] blank; [7] part title: TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE; [8] blank; 9–18 TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE signed p. 18: Arthur Ransome.; [19] fly title; [20] blank; [21] part title: PREFACE; [22] blank; 23–29 PREFACE; [30] blank; [31] fly title; [32] blank; [33] drawing of KOPH medal; [34] blank; 35–190 text; [191] part title: APPENDIX | REMY DE GOURMONT | BY | ARTHUR RANSOME; [192] blank; 193–215 APPENDIX; [216] blank; [217–222] ML list; [223–224] ML subject index. (*Fall 1925*)  \n\n> *Variant:* Pp. [1–8] 9–215 [216]. [1–6]16 [7]12. Contents as 125 except: [2] pub. note D5; [4] manufacturing statement; [216] blank.  \n\n*Jacket A:* Uniform typographic jacket B2.  \n\n> Text on front: 
 This book, at once criticism and romance, is the best introduction to the works of one of the finest intellects of our time. In France and in England it created a sensation, but for every prurient mind that, distorting the book’s intent, greeted it with accusations of indecency and blasphemy, there were a dozen readers who appreciated the depth and the nobility of M. de Gourmont’s philosophy. n “A Night in the Luxembourg” is for the intelligent reader of our generation what “Mademoiselle de Maupin” was for the generation of Swinburne—“a golden book of spirit and sense.” (*Spring 1926*)  \n\nJacket B: Uniform typographic jacket D. (*Spring 1928*)  \n\nOriginally published in U.S. by John W. Luce & Co., 1912; new bibliographical edition published by Luce, 1919. ML edition (pp. [5]–215) printed from plates of the 1919 Luce edition. Publication announced for July 1926. *WR* 21 August 1926. First printing: 8,000 copies. Discontinued 1 January 1933.  \n\nEdmund Wilson described Gourmont as “the most distinguished critical champion of the [Symbolist] movement” (*Axel’s Castle*, p. 22).  \n\nCerf initially offered Luce royalties of 2 cents a copy (Cerf to John W. Luce & Co., 14 October 1925). In the end the ML paid royalties of 4 cents a copy. There was a second printing of 2,000 copies in 1928 and two additional printings of 1,000 copies each in 1930 and 1931. *A Night in the Luxembourg* was listed in 1931 as one of the ML’s worst-selling titles (“Notes on the Modern Library,” RH box 117, Publicity folder).  \n\nRansome’s appendix on Remy de Gourmont was originally published in *Fortnightly Review* (June 1912).  \n\nAlso in the Modern Library
 Gourmont, *A Virgin Heart* (1927–1932) 141  \n\n",
  "id": "125",
  "year": "1926",
  "label": "REMY DE GOURMONT. A NIGHT IN THE LUXEMBOURG. 1926–1932. (ML 120)",
  "author": "REMY DE GOURMONT",
  "title": "A NIGHT IN THE LUXEMBOURG.",
  "date": "1926–1932.",
  "something": "ML 120",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "id": "125",
      "title": "First printing (1926)  ",
      "full": "\n\n[within double rules] A NIGHT IN THE | LUXEMBOURG | [rule] | BY | REMY DE GOURMONT | [rule] | PREFACE AND APPENDIX | BY | ARTHUR RANSOME | [rule] | [torchbearer A2] | [rule] | THE MODERN LIBRARY | PUBLISHERS : NEW YORK  \n\nPp. [1–8] 9–215 [216–224]. [1–7]16  \n\n[1] half title; [2] pub. note A4; [3] title; [4] *First Modern Library Edition* | 1926; [5] CONTENTS; [6] blank; [7] part title: TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE; [8] blank; 9–18 TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE signed p. 18: Arthur Ransome.; [19] fly title; [20] blank; [21] part title: PREFACE; [22] blank; 23–29 PREFACE; [30] blank; [31] fly title; [32] blank; [33] drawing of KOPH medal; [34] blank; 35–190 text; [191] part title: APPENDIX | REMY DE GOURMONT | BY | ARTHUR RANSOME; [192] blank; 193–215 APPENDIX; [216] blank; [217–222] ML list; [223–224] ML subject index. (*Fall 1925*)  \n\n> *Variant:* Pp. [1–8] 9–215 [216]. [1–6]16 [7]12. Contents as 125 except: [2] pub. note D5; [4] manufacturing statement; [216] blank.  \n\n*Jacket A:* Uniform typographic jacket B2.  \n\n> Text on front: 
 This book, at once criticism and romance, is the best introduction to the works of one of the finest intellects of our time. In France and in England it created a sensation, but for every prurient mind that, distorting the book’s intent, greeted it with accusations of indecency and blasphemy, there were a dozen readers who appreciated the depth and the nobility of M. de Gourmont’s philosophy. n “A Night in the Luxembourg” is for the intelligent reader of our generation what “Mademoiselle de Maupin” was for the generation of Swinburne—“a golden book of spirit and sense.” (*Spring 1926*)  \n\nJacket B: Uniform typographic jacket D. (*Spring 1928*)  \n\nOriginally published in U.S. by John W. Luce & Co., 1912; new bibliographical edition published by Luce, 1919. ML edition (pp. [5]–215) printed from plates of the 1919 Luce edition. Publication announced for July 1926. *WR* 21 August 1926. First printing: 8,000 copies. Discontinued 1 January 1933.  \n\nEdmund Wilson described Gourmont as “the most distinguished critical champion of the [Symbolist] movement” (*Axel’s Castle*, p. 22).  \n\nCerf initially offered Luce royalties of 2 cents a copy (Cerf to John W. Luce & Co., 14 October 1925). In the end the ML paid royalties of 4 cents a copy. There was a second printing of 2,000 copies in 1928 and two additional printings of 1,000 copies each in 1930 and 1931. *A Night in the Luxembourg* was listed in 1931 as one of the ML’s worst-selling titles (“Notes on the Modern Library,” RH box 117, Publicity folder).  \n\nRansome’s appendix on Remy de Gourmont was originally published in *Fortnightly Review* (June 1912).  \n\nAlso in the Modern Library
 Gourmont, *A Virgin Heart* (1927–1932) 141  \n\n"
    }
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}