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The Sunset Edition |
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Two editions of Garland's works were issued in his lifetime, the Sunset
Edition and the Border Edition. Both editions
bound the books in a uniform binding, added a new title page, but used the
plates of previous printings for the rest of the volume, including that of
the copyright page. As a result, used book dealers do not always
accurately list a Sunset volume in their catalogues--many simply name the
title and the copyright date (which is that of the setting text, not the
Sunset printing), without describing the distinctive plain
orange cover and title page crest of the Sunset edition (caveat emptor!).
All bibliographies of Garland's work cite 1909 as the date of publication of
the Sunset Edition--but that date, as will be seen below, is erroneous.
Of the 10 volumes he lists, 7 do not exist in a Sunset Edition cover. Perhaps clarifying the matter are several Harper royalty statements in the USC Garland collection that list 8 volumes comprising the edition. The quantities of titles sold itemized in these statements, the first of which is dated December 1911, suggest that the edition was, in fact, issued in 1911. (Moreover, since Cavanagh and Other Main-Travelled Roads were first published in a regular edition in 1910, The Sunset Edition logically could not have been published in 1909.) How then to explain the Publisher's Weekly ad? The Macmillan Papers at the New York Public Library contain correspondence between Garland and George Brett, the head of the firm, dated in January 1909, in which Garland formally requests to be released from his contract so that he may pursue a uniform edition of his works with another firm. Therefore, the uniform edition was announced in 1909 but was not actually published until 1911. [Since originally posting this bibliography in 2001, I've now found a Garland diary entry recording that he received his personal copy of the Sunset Edition on December 9, 1911. |
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Last Updated:
09/12/2015
Adding to the
confusion is that the specific volumes comprising the Sunset Edition seem to have
been inaccurately listed in ALL Garland bibliographies. The problem
seems to originate in the only descriptive bibliography attempted of
Garland's work, that by Lloyd Arvidson, "A Bibliography of the
Published Writings of Hamlin Garland," Masters Thesis, University of
Southern California, 1952. The bulk of the volumes Arvidson inspected
were Garland's own personal copies, but he was unable to examine all of the
various printings and editions, relying for some (duly noted in his thesis)
on publisher's ads and other sources. The authority for his listing of
10 volumes of the Sunset Edition, as noted in his thesis, is Publisher's
Weekly for July 3, 1909. But . . .