Notes on Strindberg's Married

Married, one of the original 12 books in the Modern Library series, was reprinted from Married: Twenty Stories of Married Life, published in the United States by John W. Luce & Co. in 1913. The Luce edition was not printed in the U.S. but used sheets of the English edition. Under the U.S. copyright law of 1891, books that weren't manufactured in the U.S. were in the public domain; since Luce used British sheets the work did not qualify for U.S. copyright and the Modern Library was free to reprint it without permission or payment of royalties.

Married was typeset for and printed from Modern Library plates. The edition neglected to identify the translator, Ellie Schleussner.

Thomas Seltzer, Albert Boni's uncle and an editor and vice-president at Boni & Liveright, wrote the introduction to this Modern Library piece. He left the company shortly after Liveright bought out Boni, and then formed his own publishing company.


First copyright page text:      [ none ]

First binding style:     1

First inverse DJ number:     [ none -- B-L Catalog C1 ]

Dates in print:     1917 - 1925

Toledano number:     002.1


GT42

Confirmed buckram sighting?            no


Intro author:     Thomas Seltzer

Genre:     Short Stories

Original language:      Swedish

Translator:      Ellie Schleussner


Thanks to the contributors:

Henry Toledano Barry Neavill Jay Satterfield
Ron Thoman

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