Issued July 1918 at 2/2 by T. Wemer Laurie in an edition of 1,000 copies. Owing to the attempted legal suppression of The Brook Kerith and the libel suit instituted on the publication of Lewis Seymour and Some Women, GM decided that in the future his books would be issued privately in limited editions. As Hone (p 343) relates it, “A Story-Teller's Holiday was the first of these limited editions, which it pleased Moore to issue under the sign of Cumann Sean-eolais na h-Eireann (Society for Irish Folklore), but no such society has ever existed.”

Description

Height: 8 7/8 in; 8.88 in; 22.54 cm

Width: 5 1/4 in; 5.25 in; 13.34 cm

[a]4 [b]1 (tipped in), A-Y8, Z2 (tipped in); pp [x], 356, comprising:

blank leaf pp [i-ii];
half titie, verso blank, pp [iii-iv];
title page, verso blank, pp [v-vi];
A LEAVE-TAKING (misnumbered v), verso blank, pp [vii-viii];
fly-title with notice of limitation, verso blank, pp [ix-x];

This edition consists of 1000 copies,

numbered and signed.

This is No.＿ [stamped number]

George Moore [signed in ink]

text pp 1-355 with

THE RIVERSIDE PRESS LIMITED, EDINBURGH

at foot of p 355;

p [356] blank;
greenish-blue endpapers;
all edges untrimmed;
greenish-blue paper-covered board sides matching the endpapers,
parchment spine, with white paper label on spine, lettered in brown:

Story-Teller’s

Holiday

ornament

GEORGE

MOORE

Privately

Printed

[Formatted as an ordered list to facilitate reading]

“A Leave-Taking” previously published in the Times Literary Supplement, 21 March 1918.
Chapter III, partially (portion on the ruins of Dublin) previously published in the Evening News, 5 June 1916.
Chapter V partially previously published as “A June Trip Through Ireland” in the Evening News, 29 June 1916.
Final two sentences of chapter XVI, all of chapter XVII, and first twenty-three pages of chapter XVIII (pp 72-95) previously translated into French by G. Jean-Aubry and published as “Curithir et Liadine” (D:Fr-16) in Mercure de France, 16 April 1918.

Other sections previously unpublished. In chapter XII on p 48 the second and third words in line 14 (“Nouvelle Athènes” ) are blacked out. The same two words were removed after the type was set, but before printing, resulted in blanks in line 12 of page 253 and in line 25 of page 352.

A37-2a First American edition

Title Page

A STORY-TELLER’S

HOLIDAY

GEORGE MOORE

NEW YORK

PRIVATELY PRINTED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY BY

Cumann Sean-eolais na h-Eireann [in Gaelic characters]

1918

Launch

Issued 25 September 1918 at $6.75 by Boni & Liveright in an edition of 1,250 copies. Owing to the attempted legal suppression of The Brook Kerith and the libel suit instituted on the publication of Lewis Seymour and Some Women, GM decided that in the future his books would be issued privately in limited editions. As Hone (p 343) relates it, “A Story-Teller's Holiday was the first of these limited editions, which it pleased Moore to issue under the sign of Cumann Sean-eolais na h-Eireann (Society for Irish Folklore), but no such society has ever existed.”

Description

Height: 9 1/2 in; 9.5 in; 24.13 cm

Width: 6 1/4 in; 6.25 in; 15.88 cm

[1-23]8; pp [viii], 360, comprising:

blank leaf, pp [i-ii];
half title, with notice of limitation on verso, pp [iii-iv];

1250 copies of this work have been printed

of which this is number… [number stamped in red]

title page, with

GEORGE MOORE

rule

in center of verso, pp [v-vi];

fly-title, verso blank, pp [vii-viii];
A LEAVE-TAKING, verso blank, pp [1-2];
text pp 3-358;
pp [359-60] blank;
white endpapers;
all edges untrimmed;
black head and foot bands; bound in black buckram, back and front covers plain,
spine blind stamped to simulate a leather binding with seven raised horizontal bands, with red leather label between second and third bands from top, gilt stamped

rule

A [swag letter]

STORY-

TELLER’S

HOLIDAY

three ornaments

George

Moore

rule

Same as first edition (A37-a), except that the two words blacked out in chapter XII are omitted but the words excised from the type in chapters LXIII and LXIV are included here. The original text also was used for:

A37-3a Carra Edition

Carra Edition, Volume XIV, Boni and Liveright, New York, 1923; with a tipped-in frontispiece, protected by a tissue guard sheet lettered in red at foot of verso

GEORGE MOORE

From an Etching by William Strang.

Reproduction of an etching previously used as the frontispiece of the first edition of Confessions of a Young Man (A12-a).

A37-b Third American edition, revised and expanded

Title Page

STORY-TELLER’S

HOLIDAY

GEORGE MOORE

VOL. I [II]

Issued for Subscribers only by

HORACE LIVERIGHT

NEW YORK

1928

Launch

Published July 1928 at $20 in an edition of 1,250 sets.

Description

Height: 8 3/4 in; 8.75 in; 22.23 cm

Width: 5 3/8 in; 5.38 in; 13.65 cm

Vol. I: [1]2 (tipped in), [2-17]8, [18]4 pp x, 258, comprising:

half title, with notice of limitation on verso, pp [i-ii];

This edition of A STORY-TELLER’S

HOLIDAY in two volumes is strictly

limited to Twelve Hundred and Fifty

Sets Numbered and Signed.

George Moore [signed in ink]

This Copy is Number

stamped number

title page, with

A Story-Teller’s Holiday

rule

Ulick and Soracha

rule

Horace Liveright, Inc.

in center and

Printed in the United States of America

at foot of verso, pp [iii-iv];

dedication, verso blank, pp [v-vi];
PREFACE pp vii-ix;
p [x] blank;
text pp 1-257;
p [258] blank;

Vol. II: [1-17]8, pp [vi], 266, comprising:

half title, verso blank, pp [i-ii];
title page, with copyright and printing notices as in Vol. I on verso, pp [iii-iv];
fly title, verso blank, pp [v-vi];
text pp 1-263;
pp [264-66] blank;
both volumes printed on laid paper watermarked with facsimile signature “George Moore” (same as paper used for Carra Edition);
white endpapers;
green headbands;
all edges untrimmed;
bound in dark green buckram, blind stamped on back and front covers with an all-over design of stylized flowers and vines within a single-rule border,
spine gilt stamped

rule

A [four swirl ornament]

STORY- [single-swirl ornament]

TELLER’S

HOLIDAY

rule

GEORGE

MOORE

single {double) ornament(s)

ornamental design, matching blind stamping on covers, within single-rule border

1928

rule

[Formatted as an ordered list to facilitate reading]

Vol. I:

“Dear Lady of my thoughts, dear Lady Cunard,” dedication reprinted from Ulick and Soracha (A51).
“Preface,” by Ernest Longworth, written at GM’s request for this revised edition.
Chapters I-XLIII revised from the same chapters in first edition (A37-a), with the two words blacked out in chapter XII restored.

Vol. II:

Chapter XLIV revised from the same chapter in first edition.
Chapters XLV-LVII are a revision of Ulick and Soracha (A51).
Chapter LVIII is a revision of “The Hermit’s Love Story,” originally published in Cosmopolitan Magazine, June 1927, and in Nash’s Magazine, August 1927, called “Dinoll and Crede” in the “Preface” to this edition.
Chapters LIX-LXVI are a revision of chapters LIV-LXI of the first edition A37-a.

Plates of this edition, without repagination, were used for a one-volume edition:

A37-b2 Black and Gold Library

Black and Gold Library, Horace Liveright, New York, 1929.

A37-2b Second English (Uniform) edition

Title Page

STORY-TELLER’S

HOLIDAY

GEORGE MOORE

VOL. I [II]

vignette

London

William Heinemann Ltd.

1928

Launch

Published November 1928 at 21/-

Description

Height: 8 7/8 in; 8.88 in; 22.54 cm

Width: 5 1/2 in; 5.5 in; 13.97 cm

Vol. I: ✱6, A-Q8, R2 (tipped in); pp [2], x, 260, comprising:

blank leaf, except for signature in lower left comer of recto, not paginated;
half title, with list of WORKS BY GEORGE MOORE on verso, pp [i-ii];
title page, with

Printed in Great Britain by T. and A. CONSTABLE LTD.

at the University Press, Edinburgh

at foot of verso, pp [iii-iv];

dedication, verso blank, pp [v-vi];
PREFACE pp vii-ix;
p [x] blank;
text pp [1]-258;
pp [259-60] blank;

Vol II: [ ]2 (tipped in), A-Q8, R4; pp [iv], 264, comprising:

half title, with list on verso as in Vol. I, pp [i-ii];
title page, with printer’s imprint as in Vol. I at foot of verso, pp [iii-iv];
text pp [1]-263;
p [264] blank;
white endpapers in both volumes;
all edges untrimmed;
marbled paper-covered board sides;
brown cloth spines, with white paper labels on spine, lettered in brown:

Story-

Teller’s

Holiday

I [II]

George

Moore

Heinemann

Same as the expanded and revised third American edition (A37-b). Reissued in a different binding as:

A37-2b2 Ebury Edition

Ebury Edition, two volumes, Heinemann, London, February 1938.

Bibliographical Comment

See D:Ge-17 for a German translation of chapters XLV-LIII of the first edition text, but which were omitted from the revised text and included as “Albert Nobbs” in Celibate Lives (A52).

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