D5. L. C. Page Edition (Boston, January
1924)
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D5. L. C. Page edition. A month is included in the
heading here to show why the Page edition is discussed before the Boni
edition, both of which were published in 1924. The Page parent edition and
some of its subeditions went through more than one printing; in conformity
with the style of the condensed descriptions, an enumeration of the printings
of each subedition (with identifying numbers, such as "D5a.2," attached and
with significant differences noted, including an indication of whether
title-page dates are altered and whether printings are identified on title-leaf
versos or somewhere in the books themselves) could be run on in paragraph
form (constituting a second paragraph of the entry). Because the entry for
the later Cape "New Library" edition is some distance from this entry, a
cross-reference linking the two Cape imprints is useful (they would also be
linked in the index, of course).
For discussion of the connection between L. C. Page & Co. and
the St. Botolph Society's series of "Famous Sea Stories by Herman
Melville," see A5. As with other volumes of this series, subeditions by
Jonathan Cape ("The Library Edition of Herman Melville's Works") and
David D. Nickerson followed.
. . . [condensed description, patterned on D4a]
D5a. St. Botolph Society Subedition (Boston,
1924)
. . . [condensed description]
D5b. Jonathan Cape Subedition (London,
1924)
. . . [condensed description]
For a later Cape edition, see D8.
D5c. D. D. Nickerson Subedition (Boston, 1927
[?])
. . . [condensed description]