quick question

[Michael Bailey]

yes, you caught my drift.  I was thinking of the sort of good feeling
you get in a library when you come across a grouping of
identically-bound volumes with volume numbers on the spine, and
they're in order (if they're not, I stop a minute and fix it if I have
time)

I was in the Orlando library today and happened across a slightly
different instance, a memoir by "Tennyson's youngest great-grandson"
(described as a "man of contradictions - Marxist but interested in
spiritual matters and married 25 years knowing he was gay" - sounded
kind of interesting) and when I tried to check it out, it didn't have
a bar code, so the librarian took it and said they would probably fix
it...
not sure I'll ever again ask after it, though I feel kind of sad,
obviously nobody's ever checked it out

 Mark Kohut wrote:
> Fewer.
> Gotta be with one publisher, as Updike was with Knopf.
> (Even the new translation of Remembrance of Things Past
> is not all the volumes...yet...later volumes still under later
> copyright...)
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> Now we have the Library of America editions....Bellow, Updike, Roth, Dick,
> others...
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> Graham Greene was done this way by Bodley Head (England), I believe.
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> Vintage, Picador and some other paperback houses try sometimes to
>  gather in the licenses and do unifrom paperback editions----but
> that isn't quite what you're thinking of, I'm sure..
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
> To: P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>; Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Sent: Sat, January 22, 2011 6:57:50 PM
> Subject: quick question
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> Hi, list and especially Mark, who I know is involved in publishing
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> I probably should research this myself, but you know how you can go to
> libraries and see like "Collected works of Goethe" in 40 volumes and
> stuff...
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> do they still put those out for people like, oh, I dunno, Heller?
> that is, are today's authors as voluminously productive, any of them,
> as those old Victorian and Romantic dudes and dudettes?
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