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  "full": "\n**EDGAR SALTUS. THE IMPERIAL ORGY. 1927–1932. (ML 139)** \n\n#### 148. First printing (1927) \n\n[within double rules] THE IMPERIAL ORGY | [rule] | BY | EDGAR SALTUS | [rule] | INTRODUCTION BY | BEN RAY REDMAN | [rule] | [torchbearer A2] | [rule] | THE MODERN LIBRARY | PUBLISHERS :: NEW YORK \n\nPp. [i–iv] v–xi [xii–xiv], vii [viii], [*2*], 1–237 [238]. [1–8]16 \n\n[i] half title; [ii] pub. note A5; [iii] title; [iv] *Copyright,* 1920, *by* EDGAR SALTUS | [short double rule] | *Introduction Copyright,* 1927, *by* | THE MODERN LIBRARY, INC. | [short double rule] | *First Modern Library Edition* | 1927; v–xi PREFACE signed p. xi: Ben Ray Redman | *Ogunquit*, *Maine*, | *August* 18, 1927.; [xii] epigraph from Swinburne; [xiii] dedication; [xiv] blank; vii table of contents headed: *THE IMPERIAL ORGY;* [viii] blank; [*1*] fly title; [*2*] blank; 1–237 text; [238] blank. \n\n*Jacket A:* Uniform typographic jacket B2. \n\n> Text on front:
 The story of the Russian Czars is one long carnival of cruelty and lust, of a great, overgrown, thoroughly rotten Oriental despotism gradually but certainly tottering to its fall. A whole dynasty plays its part in this book—Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great, the Empress Catherine, and finally, Nicholas the Terrified. The Imperial Orgy is in effect a moving picture history of Russia with the Czars as the principle actors. \n> This is the first Edgar Saltus title in the Modern Library. (*Fall 1927*) \n\n*Jacket B:* Uniform typographic jacket D. (*Fall 1930*) \n\nOriginally published by Boni & Liveright, 1920. ML edition (pp. [xii]–237) printed from B&L plates with illustrations omitted. Publication announced for November 1927. *WR* 7 January 1928. First printing: Not ascertained. Discontinued 1932. \n\nRedman received \\$50 for the introduction. There was a second printing of 1,000 copies in March 1930. *The Imperial Orgy* was listed in 1931 as one of the ML’s worst-selling titles (“Notes on the Modern Library,” RH box 117, Publicity folder). \n\n",
  "id": "148",
  "year": "1927",
  "label": "EDGAR SALTUS. THE IMPERIAL ORGY. 1927–1932. (ML 139)",
  "author": "EDGAR SALTUS",
  "title": "THE IMPERIAL ORGY.",
  "date": "1927–1932.",
  "something": "ML 139",
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      "id": "148",
      "title": "First printing (1927) ",
      "full": "\n\n[within double rules] THE IMPERIAL ORGY | [rule] | BY | EDGAR SALTUS | [rule] | INTRODUCTION BY | BEN RAY REDMAN | [rule] | [torchbearer A2] | [rule] | THE MODERN LIBRARY | PUBLISHERS :: NEW YORK \n\nPp. [i–iv] v–xi [xii–xiv], vii [viii], [*2*], 1–237 [238]. [1–8]16 \n\n[i] half title; [ii] pub. note A5; [iii] title; [iv] *Copyright,* 1920, *by* EDGAR SALTUS | [short double rule] | *Introduction Copyright,* 1927, *by* | THE MODERN LIBRARY, INC. | [short double rule] | *First Modern Library Edition* | 1927; v–xi PREFACE signed p. xi: Ben Ray Redman | *Ogunquit*, *Maine*, | *August* 18, 1927.; [xii] epigraph from Swinburne; [xiii] dedication; [xiv] blank; vii table of contents headed: *THE IMPERIAL ORGY;* [viii] blank; [*1*] fly title; [*2*] blank; 1–237 text; [238] blank. \n\n*Jacket A:* Uniform typographic jacket B2. \n\n> Text on front:
 The story of the Russian Czars is one long carnival of cruelty and lust, of a great, overgrown, thoroughly rotten Oriental despotism gradually but certainly tottering to its fall. A whole dynasty plays its part in this book—Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great, the Empress Catherine, and finally, Nicholas the Terrified. The Imperial Orgy is in effect a moving picture history of Russia with the Czars as the principle actors. \n> This is the first Edgar Saltus title in the Modern Library. (*Fall 1927*) \n\n*Jacket B:* Uniform typographic jacket D. (*Fall 1930*) \n\nOriginally published by Boni & Liveright, 1920. ML edition (pp. [xii]–237) printed from B&L plates with illustrations omitted. Publication announced for November 1927. *WR* 7 January 1928. First printing: Not ascertained. Discontinued 1932. \n\nRedman received \\$50 for the introduction. There was a second printing of 1,000 copies in March 1930. *The Imperial Orgy* was listed in 1931 as one of the ML’s worst-selling titles (“Notes on the Modern Library,” RH box 117, Publicity folder). \n\n"
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