{
  "full": "\n**GRANT OVERTON, ed. GREAT MODERN SHORT STORIES. 1930–1943. (ML 168)**  \n\n#### 188a. First printing (1930)  \n\n[within double rules] GREAT MODERN | SHORT STORIES | [rule] | EDITED BY | GRANT OVERTON | [rule] | [torchbearer A2] | [rule] | THE MODERN LIBRARY | PUBLISHERS : NEW YORK  \n\nPp. [i–vi] vii–ix [x], [1–2] 3–371 [372–374]. [1–12]16  \n\n[i] half title; [ii] pub. note D5; [iii] title; [iv] *Copyright,* 1930, *by* THE MODERN LIBRARY, INC. | [short double rule] | *First Modern Library Edition* | 1930 | [short double rule]; [v] CONTENTS; [vi] blank; vii–ix FOREWORD signed p. ix: Grant Overton; [x] blank; [1] part title: HEART OF DARKNESS | JOSEPH CONRAD; [2] Copyright, 1903, by Doubleday, Page & Co.; 3–371 text; [372–374] blank. *Note:* The *First* statement is not completely removed from the second printing; lines 4–5 are deleted from p. [iv] but line 3 is retained. Line 3 is deleted in later printings.  \n\n*Contents:* Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad – The Three-Day Blow, by Ernest Hemingway – The Apple-Tree, by John Galsworthy – Paul’s Case, by Willa Cather – I’m a Fool, by Sherwood Anderson – The Prussian Officer, by D. H. Lawrence – Miss Brill, by Katherine Mansfield – The Runaways, by Glenway Wescott – At Your Age, by F. Scott Fitzgerald – Counterparts, by James Joyce – The Letter, by W. Somerset Maugham.  \n\n*Jacket A:* Uniform typographic jacket D. (*Fall 1929*)  \n\n*Jacket B:* Pictorial in vivid red (11) and black on cream paper with inset panel in vivid red divided diagonally into four parts depicting a country village, skyscrapers, a sailing ship, and industrial smokestacks; borders in vivid red, lettering in black.  \n\n> Front flap: 
 Controversies over the merits of favorite short stories are endless. Everyone is staunch in his own preferences and can argue at length in their behalf. The tales collected in this volume support no theory, nor do they follow a pattern intended to emphasize a special set of virtues; they are catholic in choice and represent the most notable works in the short-story form of such masters as Joseph Conrad, John Galsworthy, Somerset Maugham, Katherine Mansfield, D. H. Lawrence, Ernest Hemingway, Willa Cather, James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sherwood Anderson and Glenway Westcott. (*Spring 1934*)  \n\nOriginal ML anthology. Published January 1930. *WR* 8 February 1930. First printing: Not ascertained. Discontinued spring 1943. Superseded 1943 by *Great Modern Short Stories*, ed. Bennett Cerf (361).  \n\nMost of the stories were selected by Cerf and Klopfer rather than Overton (see 361). Even so, Cerf thought that the anthology contained “glaring defects” and acknowledged, “Copyright difficulties . . . prevented our putting into this volume exactly what we would have liked to include” (Cerf to A. E. Coppard, 6 September 1934).  \n\nOverton’s anthology and its successor sold 12,699 copies during the 18-month period May 1942–October 1943, placing it fourteenth out of 271 ML and Giant titles.  \n\n#### 188b. Title page reset (1940)  \n\n[torchbearer D5] | [6-line title and statement of responsibility within single rules] GREAT | MODERN | SHORT | STORIES | EDITED BY | GRANT OVERTON | [below frame] THE MODERN LIBRARY  \n\nPagination and collation as 188a.  \n\nContents as 188a except: [ii] blank; [iv] COPYRIGHT, 1930, BY THE MODERN LIBRARY, INC.  \n\n*Jacket C:* Non-pictorial in deep blue (179), pale yellow (89) and gold on coated white paper with lettering in reverse on inset deep blue panel and three deep blue bands at foot, all surrounded by pale yellow background with decorations in gold and yellow. Designed by Paul Galdone, March 1940; unsigned. *Note:* The jacket design in different color combinations was also used for *Five Great Modern Irish Plays* (1941: 339), *Collected Short Stories* *of Ring Lardner* (1941: 344), *Collected Stories of Dorothy Parker* (1942: 353), and four existing ML anthologies: *Best Ghost Stories* (1919: 67b), *Best American Humorous Short Stories* (1920: 80f), *Great Modern Short Stories* (1930: 188b), and *Great German Short Novels and Stories* (1933: 256b) when they appeared in the ML’s larger format in the early 1940s. \n\n> Front flap as 188a jacket B. (*Fall 1940*)  \n\nAlso in the Modern Library  \nCerf, ed., *Great Modern Short Stories* (1943) 361  \n\n",
  "id": "188",
  "year": "1930",
  "label": "GRANT OVERTON, ed. GREAT MODERN SHORT STORIES. 1930–1943. (ML 168)",
  "author": "GRANT OVERTON, ed",
  "title": "GREAT MODERN SHORT STORIES.",
  "date": "1930–1943.",
  "something": "ML 168",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "id": "188a",
      "title": "First printing (1930)  ",
      "full": "\n\n[within double rules] GREAT MODERN | SHORT STORIES | [rule] | EDITED BY | GRANT OVERTON | [rule] | [torchbearer A2] | [rule] | THE MODERN LIBRARY | PUBLISHERS : NEW YORK  \n\nPp. [i–vi] vii–ix [x], [1–2] 3–371 [372–374]. [1–12]16  \n\n[i] half title; [ii] pub. note D5; [iii] title; [iv] *Copyright,* 1930, *by* THE MODERN LIBRARY, INC. | [short double rule] | *First Modern Library Edition* | 1930 | [short double rule]; [v] CONTENTS; [vi] blank; vii–ix FOREWORD signed p. ix: Grant Overton; [x] blank; [1] part title: HEART OF DARKNESS | JOSEPH CONRAD; [2] Copyright, 1903, by Doubleday, Page & Co.; 3–371 text; [372–374] blank. *Note:* The *First* statement is not completely removed from the second printing; lines 4–5 are deleted from p. [iv] but line 3 is retained. Line 3 is deleted in later printings.  \n\n*Contents:* Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad – The Three-Day Blow, by Ernest Hemingway – The Apple-Tree, by John Galsworthy – Paul’s Case, by Willa Cather – I’m a Fool, by Sherwood Anderson – The Prussian Officer, by D. H. Lawrence – Miss Brill, by Katherine Mansfield – The Runaways, by Glenway Wescott – At Your Age, by F. Scott Fitzgerald – Counterparts, by James Joyce – The Letter, by W. Somerset Maugham.  \n\n*Jacket A:* Uniform typographic jacket D. (*Fall 1929*)  \n\n*Jacket B:* Pictorial in vivid red (11) and black on cream paper with inset panel in vivid red divided diagonally into four parts depicting a country village, skyscrapers, a sailing ship, and industrial smokestacks; borders in vivid red, lettering in black.  \n\n> Front flap: 
 Controversies over the merits of favorite short stories are endless. Everyone is staunch in his own preferences and can argue at length in their behalf. The tales collected in this volume support no theory, nor do they follow a pattern intended to emphasize a special set of virtues; they are catholic in choice and represent the most notable works in the short-story form of such masters as Joseph Conrad, John Galsworthy, Somerset Maugham, Katherine Mansfield, D. H. Lawrence, Ernest Hemingway, Willa Cather, James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sherwood Anderson and Glenway Westcott. (*Spring 1934*)  \n\nOriginal ML anthology. Published January 1930. *WR* 8 February 1930. First printing: Not ascertained. Discontinued spring 1943. Superseded 1943 by *Great Modern Short Stories*, ed. Bennett Cerf (361).  \n\nMost of the stories were selected by Cerf and Klopfer rather than Overton (see 361). Even so, Cerf thought that the anthology contained “glaring defects” and acknowledged, “Copyright difficulties . . . prevented our putting into this volume exactly what we would have liked to include” (Cerf to A. E. Coppard, 6 September 1934).  \n\nOverton’s anthology and its successor sold 12,699 copies during the 18-month period May 1942–October 1943, placing it fourteenth out of 271 ML and Giant titles.  \n\n"
    },
    {
      "id": "188b",
      "title": "Title page reset (1940)  ",
      "full": "\n\n[torchbearer D5] | [6-line title and statement of responsibility within single rules] GREAT | MODERN | SHORT | STORIES | EDITED BY | GRANT OVERTON | [below frame] THE MODERN LIBRARY  \n\nPagination and collation as 188a.  \n\nContents as 188a except: [ii] blank; [iv] COPYRIGHT, 1930, BY THE MODERN LIBRARY, INC.  \n\n*Jacket C:* Non-pictorial in deep blue (179), pale yellow (89) and gold on coated white paper with lettering in reverse on inset deep blue panel and three deep blue bands at foot, all surrounded by pale yellow background with decorations in gold and yellow. Designed by Paul Galdone, March 1940; unsigned. *Note:* The jacket design in different color combinations was also used for *Five Great Modern Irish Plays* (1941: 339), *Collected Short Stories* *of Ring Lardner* (1941: 344), *Collected Stories of Dorothy Parker* (1942: 353), and four existing ML anthologies: *Best Ghost Stories* (1919: 67b), *Best American Humorous Short Stories* (1920: 80f), *Great Modern Short Stories* (1930: 188b), and *Great German Short Novels and Stories* (1933: 256b) when they appeared in the ML’s larger format in the early 1940s. \n\n> Front flap as 188a jacket B. (*Fall 1940*)  \n\nAlso in the Modern Library  \nCerf, ed., *Great Modern Short Stories* (1943) 361  \n\n"
    }
  ],
  "type": "book"
}