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  "full": "\n**SAMUEL BUTLER. EREWHON. 1927–1932. EREWHON and EREWHON REVISITED. 1933–1970. (ML 136)** \n\n#### 146a. First printing (1927) \n\n[within double rules] EREWHON | OR | OVER THE RANGE | [rule] | BY | SAMUEL BUTLER | [rule] | INTRODUCTION | BY | LEWIS MUMFORD | [rule] | [torchbearer A2] | [rule] | THE MODERN LIBRARY | PUBLISHERS : NEW YORK \n\nPp. [i–vi] vii–xxvii [xxviii], 1–308. [1–10]16 [11]8 \n\n[i] half title; [ii] pub. note D5; [iii] title; [iv] *Introduction Copyright, 1927, by* | THE MODERN LIBRARY, INC. | [short double rule] | *First Modern Library Edition* | 1927; [v] PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION; | [vi] blank; vii–x PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION dated p. x: *June* 9*,* 1872.; xi–xv PREFACE TO THE REVISED | EDITION signed p. xv: SAMUEL BUTLER. | *August* 7, 1901.; [xvi] blank; xvii–xviii CONTENTS; xix–xxvii INTRODUCTION signed p. xxvii: Lewis Mumford. | August, 1927.; [xxviii] blank; 1–308 text. \n\n> *Variant:* Pagination as 146a except: [309–316]. [1–10]16 [11]12. Contents as 146a except: [ii] pub. note A6; [iv] copyright and *First* statements omitted; [309–313] ML list; [314–316] blank. (*Fall 1931*) \n\n*Jacket A:* Uniform typographic jacket B. \n\n> Text on front:
 “It is not wonderful that such a man as Butler should be the author of ‘Erewhon’, a shrewd and biting satire on modern life and thought—the best of its kind since ‘Gulliver’s Travels.’ . . . To lash the age, to ridicule vain pretension, to expose hypocrisy, to deride humbug in education, politics, and religion, are tasks beyond most men’s powers; but occasionally, very occasionally, a bit of genuine satire secures for itself more than a passing nod of recognition. ‘Erewhon,’ I think, is such a satire.” (*Fall 1927*) \n\n*Jacket B:* Uniform typographic jacket D. (*Fall 1929*) \n\nOriginally published in London, 1872, and in U.S. by E. P. Dutton & Co., 1907. ML edition printed from plates made from a new typesetting. Publication scheduled for October 1927. *WR* 28 January 1928. First printing: Not ascertained. *Erewhon Revisited* added 1933. \n\nMumford received \\$50 for the introduction. When Cerf paid him he wrote, “You are the first author in the history of the Modern Library who delivered an introduction on time, and along with the enclosed check for \\$50 go our sincere and amazed thanks to you” (Cerf to Mumford, 5 April 1927). \n\n#### 146b. *Erewhon Revisited* added (1933) \n\n[within double rules] EREWHON | AND | EREWHON REVISITED | [rule] | BY | SAMUEL BUTLER | [rule] | INTRODUCTION | BY | LEWIS MUMFORD | [rule] | [torchbearer C2] | [rule] | BENNETT A. CERF – DONALD S. KLOPFER | THE MODERN LIBRARY | NEW YORK \n\nPp. [i–vi] vii–xv [xvi], [*6*], xix–xxvii [xxviii], [*2*], 1–622. [1–20]16 [21]8 \n\nContents as 146a except: [ii] pub. note D12; [iv] *Copyright*, *1927*, *by* THE MODERN LIBRARY, INC. | [short double rule] | *New Edition, 1933*; [*1*–*6*] CONTENTS; [*1*] part title: EREWHON, OR | OVER THE RANGE; [*2*] blank; 1–308 text; [309] part title: EREWHON REVISITED; [310] blank; 311–313 AUTHOR’S PREFACE | TO THE ORIGINAL EDITION signed p. 313: SAMUEL BUTLER. | *May* 1, 1901; [314] blank; 315–622 text. \n\n*Jacket:* Pictorial in moderate bluish green (164) and black on cream paper depicting a helmeted face with left half in black with feminine features and dove and olive branch on helmet and right half in moderate bluish green with male features contorted in anger and lightning bolts and snake on helmet; lettering in black except EREWHON in cream outlined in black, borders in moderate bluish green, all against cream background. (*Spring 1933*) \n\n> Front flap:
 *Erewhon* and *Erewhon Revisited*, considered by many the most important works of their kind produced in the nineteenth century, won a place for their author as one of the great satirists of all time. Samuel Butler has been ranked in the glittering company of Voltaire and Swift, and, like his literary predecessors, he spared neither church nor state, literature or science from the attacks of his sharp wit and ironic commentaries. Underneath his irrepressible, malicious laughter however, he waged a serious war with bigotry, sham and stupidity. (*Spring 1936*) \n\n*Erewhon Revisited* originally published in London, 1901, and in U.S. by E. P. Dutton & Co., 1910. *Erewhon* and *Erewhon* *Revisited* first published together in Everyman’s Library, 1932. ML edition printed from existing 146a plates (*Erewhon*) together with plates made from a new typesetting (*Erewhon Revisited*). Published spring 1933. *WR* 15 April 1933. First printing: Not ascertained. Discontinued 1970/71. \n\nThe addition of *Erewhon Revisited* was part of an effort in the early 1930s to make ML books a better value in the Depression book market. In 1932 the ML combined Maupassant’s *Mademoiselle Fifi and Twelve Other Stories* (8) and *Love and Other Stories* (72) into a single volume, *The Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant* (243). Wilde’s *Poems* (19) and *Fairy Tales and Poems in Prose* (58) were combined as *The Poems and Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde* (242). Wilde’s two volumes of plays, *Salomé, The Importance of Being Earnest, Lady Windermere’s Fan* (76) and *An Ideal Husband, A Woman of No Importance* (77) were combined as *The Plays of Oscar Wilde* (241). \n\n#### 146c. Title page reset (1941) \n\nEREWHON | AND | EREWHON REVISITED | BY | SAMUEL BUTLER | INTRODUCTION BY | LEWIS MUMFORD | [torchbearer D4 at right; 3-line imprint at left] THE | MODERN LIBRARY | NEW YORK | [rule] \n\nPagination and collation as 146b. \n\nContents as 146b except: [ii] blank; [iv] COPYRIGHT, 1927, BY THE MODERN LIBRARY, INC. \n\n> *Variant:* Pagination as 145b. [1]16 [2–9]32 [10]8 [11]32 [12]16. Contents as 146c except: [iv] line added: COPYRIGHT, RENEWED, 1955, BY THE MODERN LIBRARY, INC. \n\n*Jacket:* Non-pictorial in strong purplish blue (196) on cream paper with lettering and torchbearer in reverse against solid strong purplish blue background. Designed by Joseph Blumenthal. \n\n> Front flap as 146b. (*Spring 1941*) \n\nAlso in the Modern Library
 Butler, *Way of All Flesh* (1917–1970) 13 \n\n",
  "id": "146",
  "year": "1927",
  "label": "SAMUEL BUTLER. EREWHON. 1927–1932. EREWHON and EREWHON REVISITED. 1933–1970. (ML 136)",
  "author": "SAMUEL BUTLER",
  "title": "EREWHON. 1927–1932. EREWHON and EREWHON REVISITED.",
  "date": "1933–1970.",
  "something": "ML 136",
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    {
      "id": "146a",
      "title": "First printing (1927) ",
      "full": "\n\n[within double rules] EREWHON | OR | OVER THE RANGE | [rule] | BY | SAMUEL BUTLER | [rule] | INTRODUCTION | BY | LEWIS MUMFORD | [rule] | [torchbearer A2] | [rule] | THE MODERN LIBRARY | PUBLISHERS : NEW YORK \n\nPp. [i–vi] vii–xxvii [xxviii], 1–308. [1–10]16 [11]8 \n\n[i] half title; [ii] pub. note D5; [iii] title; [iv] *Introduction Copyright, 1927, by* | THE MODERN LIBRARY, INC. | [short double rule] | *First Modern Library Edition* | 1927; [v] PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION; | [vi] blank; vii–x PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION dated p. x: *June* 9*,* 1872.; xi–xv PREFACE TO THE REVISED | EDITION signed p. xv: SAMUEL BUTLER. | *August* 7, 1901.; [xvi] blank; xvii–xviii CONTENTS; xix–xxvii INTRODUCTION signed p. xxvii: Lewis Mumford. | August, 1927.; [xxviii] blank; 1–308 text. \n\n> *Variant:* Pagination as 146a except: [309–316]. [1–10]16 [11]12. Contents as 146a except: [ii] pub. note A6; [iv] copyright and *First* statements omitted; [309–313] ML list; [314–316] blank. (*Fall 1931*) \n\n*Jacket A:* Uniform typographic jacket B. \n\n> Text on front:
 “It is not wonderful that such a man as Butler should be the author of ‘Erewhon’, a shrewd and biting satire on modern life and thought—the best of its kind since ‘Gulliver’s Travels.’ . . . To lash the age, to ridicule vain pretension, to expose hypocrisy, to deride humbug in education, politics, and religion, are tasks beyond most men’s powers; but occasionally, very occasionally, a bit of genuine satire secures for itself more than a passing nod of recognition. ‘Erewhon,’ I think, is such a satire.” (*Fall 1927*) \n\n*Jacket B:* Uniform typographic jacket D. (*Fall 1929*) \n\nOriginally published in London, 1872, and in U.S. by E. P. Dutton & Co., 1907. ML edition printed from plates made from a new typesetting. Publication scheduled for October 1927. *WR* 28 January 1928. First printing: Not ascertained. *Erewhon Revisited* added 1933. \n\nMumford received \\$50 for the introduction. When Cerf paid him he wrote, “You are the first author in the history of the Modern Library who delivered an introduction on time, and along with the enclosed check for \\$50 go our sincere and amazed thanks to you” (Cerf to Mumford, 5 April 1927). \n\n"
    },
    {
      "id": "146b",
      "title": "*Erewhon Revisited* added (1933) ",
      "full": "\n\n[within double rules] EREWHON | AND | EREWHON REVISITED | [rule] | BY | SAMUEL BUTLER | [rule] | INTRODUCTION | BY | LEWIS MUMFORD | [rule] | [torchbearer C2] | [rule] | BENNETT A. CERF – DONALD S. KLOPFER | THE MODERN LIBRARY | NEW YORK \n\nPp. [i–vi] vii–xv [xvi], [*6*], xix–xxvii [xxviii], [*2*], 1–622. [1–20]16 [21]8 \n\nContents as 146a except: [ii] pub. note D12; [iv] *Copyright*, *1927*, *by* THE MODERN LIBRARY, INC. | [short double rule] | *New Edition, 1933*; [*1*–*6*] CONTENTS; [*1*] part title: EREWHON, OR | OVER THE RANGE; [*2*] blank; 1–308 text; [309] part title: EREWHON REVISITED; [310] blank; 311–313 AUTHOR’S PREFACE | TO THE ORIGINAL EDITION signed p. 313: SAMUEL BUTLER. | *May* 1, 1901; [314] blank; 315–622 text. \n\n*Jacket:* Pictorial in moderate bluish green (164) and black on cream paper depicting a helmeted face with left half in black with feminine features and dove and olive branch on helmet and right half in moderate bluish green with male features contorted in anger and lightning bolts and snake on helmet; lettering in black except EREWHON in cream outlined in black, borders in moderate bluish green, all against cream background. (*Spring 1933*) \n\n> Front flap:
 *Erewhon* and *Erewhon Revisited*, considered by many the most important works of their kind produced in the nineteenth century, won a place for their author as one of the great satirists of all time. Samuel Butler has been ranked in the glittering company of Voltaire and Swift, and, like his literary predecessors, he spared neither church nor state, literature or science from the attacks of his sharp wit and ironic commentaries. Underneath his irrepressible, malicious laughter however, he waged a serious war with bigotry, sham and stupidity. (*Spring 1936*) \n\n*Erewhon Revisited* originally published in London, 1901, and in U.S. by E. P. Dutton & Co., 1910. *Erewhon* and *Erewhon* *Revisited* first published together in Everyman’s Library, 1932. ML edition printed from existing 146a plates (*Erewhon*) together with plates made from a new typesetting (*Erewhon Revisited*). Published spring 1933. *WR* 15 April 1933. First printing: Not ascertained. Discontinued 1970/71. \n\nThe addition of *Erewhon Revisited* was part of an effort in the early 1930s to make ML books a better value in the Depression book market. In 1932 the ML combined Maupassant’s *Mademoiselle Fifi and Twelve Other Stories* (8) and *Love and Other Stories* (72) into a single volume, *The Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant* (243). Wilde’s *Poems* (19) and *Fairy Tales and Poems in Prose* (58) were combined as *The Poems and Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde* (242). Wilde’s two volumes of plays, *Salomé, The Importance of Being Earnest, Lady Windermere’s Fan* (76) and *An Ideal Husband, A Woman of No Importance* (77) were combined as *The Plays of Oscar Wilde* (241). \n\n"
    },
    {
      "id": "146c",
      "title": "Title page reset (1941) ",
      "full": "\n\nEREWHON | AND | EREWHON REVISITED | BY | SAMUEL BUTLER | INTRODUCTION BY | LEWIS MUMFORD | [torchbearer D4 at right; 3-line imprint at left] THE | MODERN LIBRARY | NEW YORK | [rule] \n\nPagination and collation as 146b. \n\nContents as 146b except: [ii] blank; [iv] COPYRIGHT, 1927, BY THE MODERN LIBRARY, INC. \n\n> *Variant:* Pagination as 145b. [1]16 [2–9]32 [10]8 [11]32 [12]16. Contents as 146c except: [iv] line added: COPYRIGHT, RENEWED, 1955, BY THE MODERN LIBRARY, INC. \n\n*Jacket:* Non-pictorial in strong purplish blue (196) on cream paper with lettering and torchbearer in reverse against solid strong purplish blue background. Designed by Joseph Blumenthal. \n\n> Front flap as 146b. (*Spring 1941*) \n\nAlso in the Modern Library
 Butler, *Way of All Flesh* (1917–1970) 13 \n\n"
    }
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}