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Here's an odd thing: browsing the fiction books with date:1923 I saw a familiar title, "Seven Days in May" by Knebel and Bailey[1] -- a story definitely written
by fernly 8y ago
Here's an odd thing: browsing the fiction books with date:1923 I saw a familiar title, "Seven Days in May" by Knebel and Bailey[1] -- a story definitely written well after that year, since it opens at the Pentagon, a building only opened in 1943.
In fact, per Wikipedia[2] it was published in 1964.
Yet if you open the IA copy[1] at the linked page you will see "First published 1923".
WTF?
Heck, here's another: The Doomsday Men by J.B. Priestly[3], "First published 1923" but in fact[4] in 1937.
[1] https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.124792/page/n11 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.124792/page/n1...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Days_in_May_(novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Days_in_May_(novel)
[3] https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.148207/page/n5 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.148207/page/n5
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._B._Priestley#Novels https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._B._Priestley#Novels
- Kurtz79 8y agoNice catch. I cannot think of any other reason than a typo in the original prints, and the people reponsible for digitizing the books have mechanically filed them with the date reported in the body as that of the first edition. Maybe it is the equivalent of a modern day copy/paste error, they got the sheets reporting the first edition mixed-up with those of another book, who knows.
- hinkley 8y agoSince this is a sliding window it might be worth looking at the entire middle and late 20's. Cribbed from a top 50 list, I see works by F Scott Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Agatha Christie, Virginia Woolf, DH Lawrence, Dorothy Parker, Gertrude Stein, Frank Kafka, PG Wodehouse, Aldous Huxley, ee cummings, Pablo Neruda, AA Milne, Sinclair Lewis, Faulkner, Hesse... Man the Roaring 20's had a shitload of authors...