{
  "full": "\n**JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE. FAUST. 1930–1973. (ML 177)**  \n\n#### 200a. First printing (1930)  \n\n[within double rules] FAUST | [rule] | BY | JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE | [rule] | TRANSLATED, | IN THE ORIGINAL METRES, | BY BAYARD TAYLOR | [rule] | [torchbearer A3] | [rule] | BENNETT A. CERF : DONALD S. KLOPFER | THE MODERN LIBRARY | PUBLISHERS : NEW YORK  \n\nPp. [i–iv] v–xx [xxi–xxii], 1–179 [180]; [i] ii–xiv, [1] 2–258 [259–264]. [1–15]16  \n\n[i] half title; [ii] pub. note D9; [iii] title; [iv] *Copyright, 1870, by Bayard Taylor* | *Copyright, 1898 and 1912, by Marie Hansen Taylor* | [short double rule] | FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION | 1930; v–xvii PREFACE. [by Bayard Taylor]; [xviii] blank; [xix]–xx CONTENTS.; [xxi] AN GOETHE. signed: B. T.; [xxii] blank; 1–179 text; [180] blank; [i]–xi PART II. | INTRODUCTION. signed p. xi: B. T. | March, 1871.; [xii] blank; [xiii]–xiv CONTENTS. | SECOND PART OF THE TRAGEDY.; [1]–258 text; [259–262] ML list; [263–264] blank. (*Fall 1930*) *Note:* *First* statement retained on printings through fall 1933.  \n\n*Jacket:* Pictorial in deep purplish red (256) and black on cream paper with illustration of a bearded Faust holding a large book with a retort and beaker in the foreground; borders in deep purplish red, lettering in black. Signed: Wuyts. (*Fall 1930*)  \n\n> Front flap: 
 Readers, critics and commentators have found *Faust* inexhaustible in its new and illuminating riches. For a century and a quarter it has held its place among the world’s treasures. The variety and beauty of its plan and the depth of its implications give it the immortality for which its central character bargained with his soul. Faust remains the personification of humanity, tempted and tormented, groping toward the light. Of the fifty translations of the masterpiece, Bayard Taylor’s, in the original metres, most completely retains Goethe’s intention and spirit. (*Fall 1933*)  \n\nBayard Taylor translation originally published in two volumes by Fields, Osgood & Co. and its successor, James R. Osgood & Co., 1870–71; subsequently published by Houghton Mifflin Co. ML edition published by arrangement with Houghton Mifflin. Published September 1930. *WR* 18 October 1930. First printing: Not ascertained. Discontinued 1973/74.  \n\n*Faust* was in the second quarter of ML titles in terms of sales during the 18-month period May 1942–October 1943. It ranked low in the first quarter of ML titles during the 12-month period November 1951–October 1952.  \n\n#### 200b. Title page reset (c. 1940)  \n\nFAUST | BY | JOHANN WOLFGANG | VON GOETHE | TRANSLATED, | IN THE ORIGINAL METRES, BY | BAYARD TAYLOR | [torchbearer E1] | [rule] | MODERN LIBRARY · NEW YORK | [rule]  \n\nPagination as 200a. [1–14]16 [15–16]8  \n\nContents as 200a except: [ii] blank; [iv] COPYRIGHT, 1870, BY BAYARD TAYLOR | COPYRIGHT, 1898, AND 1912, | BY MARIE HANSEN TAYLOR; [259–263] ML list; [264] blank. (*Spring 1941*)  \n\n*Jacket:* Pictorial in deep red (13) with black on coated white paper with still-life drawing of hourglass, books, theatrical mask, candlestick, and scythe in black and white; lettering in reverse, all against deep red background. Designed by Paul Galdone, May 1939; unsigned. \n\n> Front flap as 200a. (*Spring 1941*)  \n\n#### 200c. Lange introduction added (1950)  \n\nFaust | *A TRAGEDY* | *By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe* | *Translated, in the original meters,* | *by Bayard Taylor* | [ornament] | INTRODUCTION BY | VICTOR LANGE | *Professor of German Language and Literature,* | *Chairman of German Studies,* | *Cornell University* | [torchbearer E5] | THE MODERN LIBRARY · NEW YORK  \n\nPp. [i–iv] v–xxiv, 1–179 [180]; [i] ii, [1] 2–258. [1–13]16 [14]8 [15]16  \n\n[i] half title; [ii] blank; [iii] title; [iv] *Copyright, 1950, by Random House, Inc.* | COPYRIGHT, 1870, BY BAYARD TAYLOR | COPYRIGHT, 1898 AND 1912, | BY MARIE HANSEN TAYLOR; v–xxi INTRODUCTION | *By* Victor Lange; xxii BIBLIOGRAPHY; [xxiii]–xxiv CONTENTS OF THE | FIRST PART OF THE TRAGEDY; 1–179 text; [180] blank; [i]–ii CONTENTS OF THE | SECOND PART OF THE TRAGEDY; [1]–258 text.  \n\n*Jacket:* As 200b. (*Spring 1951*) \n\n> Front flap slightly revised. (*Fall 1956*)  \n\nOriginally published 1950 in MLCE and subsequently in the regular ML. Lange received \\$150 for his introduction (Stein to Lange, 25 January 1950). Stein noted that he wanted to drop three items by Taylor: the preface to Part I, which dealt with problems of the translation, the introduction to Part II, which was a general commentary, and the poem “An Goethe.” He suggested that anything pertinent in Taylor’s preface and introduction should be included in Lange’s introduction (Stein to Lange, 27 January 1950).  \n\n#### 200d. Title page reset; offset printing (1967)  \n\nFAUST | *A Tragedy* | [rule] | By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | *Translated, in the original meters,* | *by Bayard Taylor* | Introduction By | VICTOR LANGE | PROFESSOR OF GERMAN LITERATURE, | CHAIRMAN OF THE DEPARTMENT OF GERMAN, | PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | [torchbearer J] | THE MODERN LIBRARY | New York  \n\nPp. [i–iv] v–xxiv [xxv–xxvi], 1–179 [180]; [xiii] xiv, [1] 2–258 [259–272]. [1]16 [2–6]32 [7]16 [8]32 [9]16  \n\nContents as 200c except: [iv] Copyright, © 1967, 1950, by Random House, Inc. | Copyright, 1870, by Bayard Taylor | Copyright, 1898 and 1912, by Marie Hansen Taylor; [xxii] blank; [xxiii]–xxiv BIBLIOGRAPHY [updated from 200c]; [xxv–xxvi] CONTENTS OF THE | FIRST PART OF THE TRAGEDY; [xiii]–xiv CONTENTS OF THE | SECOND PART OF THE TRAGEDY; [259–266] ML list; [267–268] ML Giants list; [ 269–272] blank. (*Fall 1966*) *Note:* Page numeral removed from contents of Part I; fall 1966 ML lists retained on subsequent printings.  \n\n*Jacket:* Fujita non-pictorial jacket on coated white paper with lettering in black and decoration in deep brown (56), all against white background. \n\n> Front flap slightly revised and abridged from 200c.  \n\nAlso in the Modern Library  \nGoethe, *Sorrows of Young Werther & Novella* (1984– ) 638  \n\n",
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  "year": "1930",
  "label": "JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE. FAUST. 1930–1973. (ML 177)",
  "author": "JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE",
  "title": "FAUST.",
  "date": "1930–1973.",
  "something": "ML 177",
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