Have any of you heard of a publisher called Dodo Press? I recently came across a collection of CAS's prose poems published by them. Unfortunately, the book in question, A PHANTASY AND OTHER PROSE POEMS, is riddled with typos. How is it, do you suppose, that such a poorly presented book came to be?

They're a public domain print-on-demand publisher. Their business model is to churn out cheaply made copies of as many different titles as possible. I was informed by a more reputable POD publisher that they only had to sell 7 to 8 copies of any given book to make back their set-up costs, and anything after that was pure profit (especially if you don't pay royalties).

On another issue: could you provide bibliographic information, specifically the titles (and page numbers) of the contents?

Thanks--
Scott

*Shudder* I once bought a few volumes of Burton's translation of Arabian Nights printed by them. I might as well have printed and bound something off Project Gutenberg -- the text was so badly handled it was useless. For example, all instances where Burton used Greek letters had been replaced by "{Greek letters}". They obviously do only a minimum of work on their titles.

Thank you for the warning. They have reprinted several titles by Marjorie Bowen and others that had seemed tempting, but I was afraid what Martin has described would be the case.

Off-topic: If anyone knows of a cheap reprint of the Burton translation that is textually correct, please let me know. I have PDF scans of the original edition, but it's just not the same thing as real books.

I would be interested in this also, even though I find Burton virtually unreadable.

Scott,

Thank you for the information. Following are the titles included in the book, exactly as listed in the table of contents:

A Phantasy (1916)
From the Crypts of Memory (1917)
The Memnons of the Night (1917)
Ennui (1918)
The Princess Almeena (1920)
The Black Lake (1922)
The Caravan (1922)
The Demon, the Angel, and the Beauty (1922)
A Dream of Lethe (1922)
The Flower-Devil (1922)
From a Letter (1922)
The Garden and the Tomb (1922)
In Cocaigne (1922)
The Lake of Enchanted Silence (1922)
The Litany of the Seven Kisses (1922)
Remoteness (1922)
The Shadows (1922)
The Statue of Silence (1922)
To the Daemon (1922)
The Traveller (1922)

The TOC does not include page numbers, but I'll be happy to compile them for you if you wish.

--Doc

The actual page numbers would be useful.