Notes on Werfel's
The Forty Days of Musa Dagh

On the ML Mailing List (9 July 2005) Barry Neavill said: "[Werfel's Forty Days of Musa Dagh] was originally published by Viking Press in 1934 and appeared as a ML Giant in 1937. 5, 000 copies of the first MLG edition were printed as Giants by [Random House]. The other 4, 000 copies of the first MLG edition were supplied by Viking Press as folded and gathered sheets of their edition. The ML removed the first 4 leaves, replaced them with newly printed MLG leaves, and bound the books in the MLG binding. All 9, 000 copies, as far as I've been able to determine, were placed on the market simultaneously. ... [I]t takes close bibliographical analysis to distinguish the copies that came from Viking Press from those that were printed by the ML."

This title was one of the few ML books that had special endpapers.

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First copyright page text:     First Modern Library Edition

Dates in print:     1937 - 1956

Toledano number:    G031.1

Genre:     Novel

Original language:      German

Translator:      Geoffrey Dunlop

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Thanks to the contributors:

Henry Toledano

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