{
  "full": "\n**NORMAN DOUGLAS. OLD CALABRIA. 1928–1935. (ML 141)**  \n\n#### 150. First printing (1928)  \n\n[within double rules] OLD CALABRIA | [rule] | BY | NORMAN DOUGLAS | [rule] | [torchbearer A2] | [rule] | THE MODERN LIBRARY | PUBLISHERS :: NEW YORK  \n\nPp. [i–iv] v–viii, 1–440. [1–14]16  \n\n[i] half title; [ii] pub. note D5; [iii] title; [iv] *Introduction Copyright,* 1928, *by* | THE MODERN LIBRARY, INC. | [short double rule] | *First Modern Library Edition* | 1928; v–vi CONTENTS; vii–viii INTRODUCTION signed p. viii: Norman Douglas; 1–440 text.  \n\n> *Variant (1931 printing):* Pagination and collation as 150. Contents as 150 except: [iv] copyright and *First* statements omitted. (*Seen in balloon cloth binding*)  \n\n*Jacket A:* Uniform typographic jacket A.  \n\n> Text on front:\nNorman Douglas’ best known travel book has never before been published in a popular edition. Its inclusion in the Modern Library exactly two years after “South Wind” was added to the series, makes available to the readers of the Library Mr. Douglas’ two most representative works. (*Fall 1927*)  \n\n*Jacket B:* Uniform typographic jacket D. (*Spring 1929*) *Note:* Seen on copies of the first printing in imitation leather binding.  \n\nOriginally published in U.S. by Houghton Mifflin Co., 1915, using sheets of the English edition. ML edition printed from plates made from a new typesetting, omitting the index and illustrations. Publication announced for January 1928; probably published in December 1927. *WR* 7 January 1928. First printing: 7,000 copies. Discontinued 1 January 1936.  \n\nThe ML arranged its edition directly with Douglas, who wrote a new introduction and received royalties of 5 cents a copy. The ML edition was the first to be printed in the U.S. Cerf offered to sell duplicate plates to the English publisher Martin Secker for use in his New Adelphi Library, but Secker decided not to include *Old Calabria* in the series (Cerf to Secker, 25 July 1928; Secker to Cerf, 14 August 1928).  \n\nThere was a second printing of 3,057 copies in March 1931 (Woolf, p. 46).  \n\nSales during the first six months of 1928 placed *Old Calabria* 37th out of 147 ML titles. It was listed in 1931 as one of the ML’s worst-selling titles (“Notes on the Modern Library,” RH box 117, Publicity folder). It was discontinued after returns from booksellers exceeded sales during the last part of 1935.  \n\nAlso in the Modern Library  \nDouglas, *South Wind* (1925–1968) 114  \n\n",
  "id": "150",
  "year": "1928",
  "label": "NORMAN DOUGLAS. OLD CALABRIA. 1928–1935. (ML 141)",
  "author": "NORMAN DOUGLAS",
  "title": "OLD CALABRIA.",
  "date": "1928–1935.",
  "something": "ML 141",
  "revisions": [],
  "type": "book"
}