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  "full": "\n**THORNTON WILDER. THE CABALA. 1929–1937. ML 155)**  \n\n#### 175. First printing (1929)  \n\n[within double rules] THE CABALA | [rule] | BY | THORNTON WILDER | [rule] | INTRODUCTION BY | HERBERT GORMAN | [rule] | [torchbearer A2] | [rule] | THE MODERN LIBRARY | PUBLISHERS : NEW YORK  \n\nPp. [*2*], [i–iv] v–xiii [xiv], [3–6] 7–230 [231–234]. [1–7]16 [8]12  \n\n[*1*] half title; [*2*] pub. note A6; [i] title; [ii] *Copyright by* A. & C. BONI, *1926* | [short double rule] | *Introduction Copyright by* THE MODERN LIBRARY | 1929 | [short double rule] | *First Modern Library Edition* | 1929 | [short double rule]; [iii] dedication; [iv] blank; v–xiii INTRODUCTION signed p. xiii: Herbert Gorman. | New York City, | *March,* 1929.; [xiv] blank; [3] *Contents*; [4] blank; [5] part title: BOOK ONE: | First Encounters; [6] blank; 7–230 text; [231–234] ML list. (*Spring 1929*)  \n\n*Format: The Cabala* was the first ML title published in balloon cloth binding B. Copies with the statement “First Modern Library Edition | 1929” have been seen with the Bernhard endpaper, which was used through March 1929, the month in which the first printing was probably made, and also the Kent endpaper, which began to be used in April, the month in which *The Cabala* was published. The earliest copies sold were almost certainly those in the Bernhard endpaper. Copies examined in jacket B have the Kent endpaper.  \n\n> *Variant:* Pagination as 175 except: [231–242]. [1–8]16. Contents as 175 except: [ii] *First* statement omitted; [231–235] ML list; [236–242] blank. (*Fall 1931*)  \n\n*Jacket* *A:* Uniform typographic jacket D. Text on front: “The first popular priced edition of the book that won for Thornton Wilder overnight a position among America’s leading writers.” (*Spring 1929*)  \n\n*Jacket B:* Pictorial in black on strong yellowish pink (26) paper with inset illustration of two women and two men seated around a table, casting shadows on an exotically decorated wall; lettering in black. Signed: N.B. (*Spring 1929*) *Note:* At this period the ML was making a limited number of titles available in pictorial jackets as an alternative to the uniform typographic jacket. Jackets A and B were superseded by jacket C in fall 1931.  \n\n*Jacket C:* Pictorial in grayish purple (228) and black on light purplish gray paper with inset illustration as jacket B; lettering in black, borders in grayish purple. (*Fall 1931*  \n\n> Front flap: 
 The sensational success of *The Bridge of San Luis Rey* obscured for a time the fine lustre of Thornton Wilder’s earlier work, *The Cabala*. But critics and an enthusiastic minority of readers clung to their preference for the calm and suave classicism of the Italian tale in the Henry James tradition. The restraint and the mystical implications of *The Cabala*, the imaginative subtlety with which it is endowed, the firmness of its characterizations, its wit and irony, give it a place of eminence among contemporary novels. (*Fall 1933*)  \n\nOriginally published by Albert & Charles Boni, 1926. ML edition (pp. [iii], [3]–230) printed from Boni plates. The heading of the contents page of Boni printings was changed from *The Cabala* to *Contents* at some point between the sixth printing (January 1928) and the tenth printing (August 1928); ML printings use the second version of the contents page. Published April 1929. *WR* 11 May 1929. First printing: 8,000 copies. Discontinued fall 1937.  \n\nCerf invited Wilder to write a brief foreword to the ML edition. “I know that you have no great liking for doing introductions,” he wrote, “particularly to writings of your own; as a matter of fact it is not an introduction that we want for this book, rather a graceful salaam to send it on its way in its new format. . . . ‘The Cabala,’ at 95¢, is going to sell to a brand new audience that has never been able to afford to buy a book of yours before. In particular this new audience will be made up largely of college students. I am sure that just a few words stating how the book grew in your mind will be a fine thing to have in this edition” (Cerf to Wilder, 11 March 1929). He offered \\$100, double the ML’s usual fee, but Wilder did not succumb to the invitation. At the last moment Cerf turned to Herbert Gorman, offering him \\$50 for an introduction to be written within five days (Cerf to Gorman, 21 March 1929). Gorman met the deadline, and the ML edition went to press at the end of March.  \n\n*The Cabala* sold well during its first two or three years in the series. There were two printings of 1,000 copies each in 1930 and another printing of 1,000 copies in 1931. The last printing recorded in the RH archives was for 1,000 copies in 1933.  \n\n",
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  "year": "1929",
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      "full": "\n\n[within double rules] THE CABALA | [rule] | BY | THORNTON WILDER | [rule] | INTRODUCTION BY | HERBERT GORMAN | [rule] | [torchbearer A2] | [rule] | THE MODERN LIBRARY | PUBLISHERS : NEW YORK  \n\nPp. [*2*], [i–iv] v–xiii [xiv], [3–6] 7–230 [231–234]. [1–7]16 [8]12  \n\n[*1*] half title; [*2*] pub. note A6; [i] title; [ii] *Copyright by* A. & C. BONI, *1926* | [short double rule] | *Introduction Copyright by* THE MODERN LIBRARY | 1929 | [short double rule] | *First Modern Library Edition* | 1929 | [short double rule]; [iii] dedication; [iv] blank; v–xiii INTRODUCTION signed p. xiii: Herbert Gorman. | New York City, | *March,* 1929.; [xiv] blank; [3] *Contents*; [4] blank; [5] part title: BOOK ONE: | First Encounters; [6] blank; 7–230 text; [231–234] ML list. (*Spring 1929*)  \n\n*Format: The Cabala* was the first ML title published in balloon cloth binding B. Copies with the statement “First Modern Library Edition | 1929” have been seen with the Bernhard endpaper, which was used through March 1929, the month in which the first printing was probably made, and also the Kent endpaper, which began to be used in April, the month in which *The Cabala* was published. The earliest copies sold were almost certainly those in the Bernhard endpaper. Copies examined in jacket B have the Kent endpaper.  \n\n> *Variant:* Pagination as 175 except: [231–242]. [1–8]16. Contents as 175 except: [ii] *First* statement omitted; [231–235] ML list; [236–242] blank. (*Fall 1931*)  \n\n*Jacket* *A:* Uniform typographic jacket D. Text on front: “The first popular priced edition of the book that won for Thornton Wilder overnight a position among America’s leading writers.” (*Spring 1929*)  \n\n*Jacket B:* Pictorial in black on strong yellowish pink (26) paper with inset illustration of two women and two men seated around a table, casting shadows on an exotically decorated wall; lettering in black. Signed: N.B. (*Spring 1929*) *Note:* At this period the ML was making a limited number of titles available in pictorial jackets as an alternative to the uniform typographic jacket. Jackets A and B were superseded by jacket C in fall 1931.  \n\n*Jacket C:* Pictorial in grayish purple (228) and black on light purplish gray paper with inset illustration as jacket B; lettering in black, borders in grayish purple. (*Fall 1931*  \n\n> Front flap: 
 The sensational success of *The Bridge of San Luis Rey* obscured for a time the fine lustre of Thornton Wilder’s earlier work, *The Cabala*. But critics and an enthusiastic minority of readers clung to their preference for the calm and suave classicism of the Italian tale in the Henry James tradition. The restraint and the mystical implications of *The Cabala*, the imaginative subtlety with which it is endowed, the firmness of its characterizations, its wit and irony, give it a place of eminence among contemporary novels. (*Fall 1933*)  \n\nOriginally published by Albert & Charles Boni, 1926. ML edition (pp. [iii], [3]–230) printed from Boni plates. The heading of the contents page of Boni printings was changed from *The Cabala* to *Contents* at some point between the sixth printing (January 1928) and the tenth printing (August 1928); ML printings use the second version of the contents page. Published April 1929. *WR* 11 May 1929. First printing: 8,000 copies. Discontinued fall 1937.  \n\nCerf invited Wilder to write a brief foreword to the ML edition. “I know that you have no great liking for doing introductions,” he wrote, “particularly to writings of your own; as a matter of fact it is not an introduction that we want for this book, rather a graceful salaam to send it on its way in its new format. . . . ‘The Cabala,’ at 95¢, is going to sell to a brand new audience that has never been able to afford to buy a book of yours before. In particular this new audience will be made up largely of college students. I am sure that just a few words stating how the book grew in your mind will be a fine thing to have in this edition” (Cerf to Wilder, 11 March 1929). He offered \\$100, double the ML’s usual fee, but Wilder did not succumb to the invitation. At the last moment Cerf turned to Herbert Gorman, offering him \\$50 for an introduction to be written within five days (Cerf to Gorman, 21 March 1929). Gorman met the deadline, and the ML edition went to press at the end of March.  \n\n*The Cabala* sold well during its first two or three years in the series. There were two printings of 1,000 copies each in 1930 and another printing of 1,000 copies in 1931. The last printing recorded in the RH archives was for 1,000 copies in 1933.  \n\n"
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