{
  "full": "\n**GUSTAVE FLAUBERT. SALAMMBÔ. 1929–1934. (ML 118)**  \n\n#### 170. First printing (1929)  \n\n[within double rules] SALAMMBÔ | [rule] | BY | GUSTAVE FLAUBERT | [rule] | [torchbearer B] | [rule] | THE MODERN LIBRARY | PUBLISHERS : NEW YORK  \n\nPp. [*6*], 1–354. [1–11]16 [12]4  \n\n[*1*] half title; [*2*] pub. note D5; [*3*] title; [*4*] *First Modern Library Edition* | 1929 | [short double rule]; [*5*] CONTENTS; [*6*] blank; 1–354 text.  \n\n*Jacket A:* Uniform typographic jacket D. (*Fall 1928*) \n\n> Text on front panel: “Complete and unabridged in one volume”.  \n\n*Jacket B:* Uniform typographic jacket D. *(Spring 1929*)  \n\n> Text on front panel:  
 Presented, with the compliments of Bennett A. Cerf and Donald S. Klopfer, to the guests of the Womens National Booksellers Association, in conclave at the Hotel Commodore, New York, March 7, 1929. *Note:* Presentation jacket on copy of first printing; the jacket was never used on copies for sale to the public.  \n\nTranslation unidentified. Portions of the translation are identical to the translation published in 1927 by the John Day Co., with an introduction by Ben Ray Redman. ML edition printed from plates made from a new typesetting. Publication scheduled for January 1929. *WR* 23 February 1929. First printing: Not ascertained. Discontinued 1 January 1935.  \n\nCerf invited Will Durant to write an introduction to *Salammbô* after Durant’s publishers, Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster, told him that Durant was an enthusiastic admirer of the work. Durant insisted on a fee of \\$100, twice what the ML usually paid, and then submitted a general essay on Flaubert. Cerf asked for changes, noting: “It seems to me much too obvious that this is just a chapter from a book with much too much about Madame Bovary in it, and much too little about Salammbo. And what there is about Salammbo is simply a synopsis of the story” (Cerf to Durant, 14 August 1928; Durant to Cerf, 16 August 1928; Cerf to Durant, 10 September 1928). Durant indicated that he didn’t have time to make changes, and the ML published *Salammbô* without an introduction.  \n\nFour years after *Salammbô* was discontinued, James T. Farrell suggested Flaubert’s *Sentimental* *Education* for the ML (Farrell to Cerf, 1 February 1939). Cerf responded, “I am sorry to say that I see little point in adding another Flaubert title to the Modern Library at this time. We had to drop out both SALAMMBO and THE TEMPTATION OF ST. ANTHONY  because of complete lack of demand, and even MADAME BOVARY doesn’t sell one-quarter of what it did ten and fifteen years ago” (Cerf to Farrell, 2 February 1939).  \n\nAlso in the Modern Library  \nFlaubert, *Madame Bovary* (1917– ) 25  \nFlaubert, *Temptation of St. Anthony* (1921–1933) 82  \n\n",
  "id": "170",
  "year": "1929",
  "label": "GUSTAVE FLAUBERT. SALAMMBÔ. 1929–1934. (ML 118)",
  "author": "GUSTAVE FLAUBERT",
  "title": "SALAMMBÔ.",
  "date": "1929–1934.",
  "something": "ML 118",
  "revisions": [],
  "type": "book"
}