Modern Library Dust Jackets
and their Designers/Illustrators 

 by the ML Mailing List Membership

This section displays images sorted by known dust jacket designers for titles printed in the years 1928 through 1970. It includes pictorial, design, and non-boilerplate text styles found on flexie's and hardbacks, plus illustrated acetates and box images.

For a much larger database of images sorted by author and expanded to include P-series numbered paperbacks (as opposed to the college paperback editions), see Introduction to the Modern Library Database.

The names of these artists and their dust jackets, and in many cases the images themselves, were submitted by members of the ML Mailing List e-mail discussion group. They learned the names by carefully looking at dust jackets in their own collections, by comparing styles, or by researching.


Key to the Entries

An entry with a question mark [?] means that the identity of the designer/illustrator is in doubt. If you can confirm or refute it, again let me know.

Unlinked titles in black text are those for which I need scanned images. Submissions should be at least 150 dpi in JPEG (.jpg) format. Please check with me before sending to confirm you have the right dust jacket. (Most ML's come in more than one design.)

Click a designer's name to see a list of that designer's dust jackets, or scroll through the list. Click a number to go to a page of dust jackets attributed to that artist; click a dust jacket name to go directly to its picture.


Designers

  • Valenti Angelo
  • George Annand
  • F.B.
  • N.B.
  • Robert Ball
  • Leonard Baskin
  • Joseph Blumenthal
  • Brenner
  • Barney Brienza
  • Burch
  • C.
  • W.C.
  • Cassens
  • Warren Chappell
  • Lewis C. Daniel
  • Nat Falk
  • Paul Galdone
  • Giusti
  • Milton Glasser
  • Wiltold Gordon
  • Edward Gorey
  • Phillip Grushkin
  • A.H.
  • F.L.H.
  • Hoffman
  • Hogeboom
  • R.C.J.
  • Bernard Jones
  • Fritz Kredel
  • E. McKnight Kauffer
  • Rockwell Kent
  • L.
  • J.L.
  • Loederer
  • Loeffel
  • Joseph Low
  • Freund Lurye
  • John Murello
  • Newman
  • O'Toole
  • Irving Politzer
  • R.J.R.
  • Ernst Reichl
  • J.E.S.
  • I.S.
  • George Salter
  • Jacqueline Schuman
  • William Sharp (W.S.)
  • Edward Stalloff
  • L. Trevisan
  • Lynd Ward
  • Mariam Woods
  • Wuyts
  • Challenge: What are the first names of the artists with just last names listed above? What are the names of the artists for whom I have only initials? Are there artists I've missed? Let me know!


    Valenti Angelo (VA)

     
    Buck, The Good Earth
    Emerson, Complete Essays
    Hersey, A Bell for Adano
    Longfellow, Poems
    Misc., The English Philosophers [giant]
    Norris, The Pit
    Prescott, The Conquest of Mexico [giant]
    Steinbeck, In Dubious Battle
    Whitman, Leaves of Grass [giant]
    Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

    George Annand

     
    Young, The Medici (giant]

    F.B.

     
    Kipling, Kim

    N.B.

     
    Wilder, The Cabala
     

    Robert Ball

     
    Petronius, The Satyricon
     

    Leonard Baskin

     
    Kosinsky, The Painted Bird
     

    Joseph Blumenthal

     
    Henry, Best Short Stories [design only - illustration likely by William Sharp]
    Machiavelli, The Prince
    Milton, Complete Poetry
    Pope, Selected Works
    Rosseau, Confessions [design only]
     

    Brenner

     
    Balzac, Pere Goriot and Eugenie Grandet
     

    Barney Brienza

     
    Bronte, Wuthering Heights
    Cummings, The Enormous Room
    Proust, The Guermantes Way
    Proust, Swann's Way
    Scott, Three Novels [giant]
    Waugh, Vile Bodies
     

    Burch

     
    Faulkner, Sanctuary
     

    C.

     
    Mann, Magic Mountain
     

    W.C.

     
    Carlyle, The Fench Revolution [giant]
    Dos Passos, Three Soldiers
    Hammett, The Maltese Falcon
    James, Philosophy
    Marx, Capital
    Spinoza, Philosophy
     

    Cassens

     
    Carroll, Collected Works (early)
    Gogol, Dead Souls
    Malraux, Man's Fate
     

    Warren Chappell

     
    Cervantes, Don Quixote [regular & giant]
    Cooper, Leatherstocking Saga [giant, design only]
    O'Neill, Ah, Wilderness and Two Other Plays
     

    Lewis C. Daniel

     
    139.2, Ben Hur [flexi]
     

    Nat Falk

     
    McFee, Casuals of the Sea
     

    Paul Galdone   1  2  3

     
    Austen, Complete Novels [giant]
    Bronte, Wuthering Heights
    Brooks, The Flowering of New England [giant]
    Casanova, Memoirs
    Conrad, Nostromo
    Defoe, Moll Flanders
    Dickens, David Copperfield
    Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
    Doyle, Sherlock Holmes
    Dumas, Camille
    Farrell, Studs Lonigan [giant]
    Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom
    Flaubert, Madame Bovary
    Forster, A Passage to India
    Gilbert and Sullivan, Complete Plays [giant]
    Hackett, Personal History of Henry the Eighth
    Hoffenstein, Complete Poetry
    Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
    Hudson, Green Mansions
    Hardy, Jude the Obscure
    Joyce, Ulysses [giant]
    Lewis, Babbitt
    Lewis, Dodsworth
    Misc., 14 Great Detective Stories [two versions]
    Misc., 101 Years' Entertainment [giant]
    Misc., Three Famous Murder Novels [giant]
    Nash, Selected Verse
    Poe, The Complete Tales and Poems [giant]
    Sheehan, Personal History
    Tennyson, Poems and Plays [giant]
    Thoreau, Walden and other writings [?]
    Tolstoy, Anna Karenina [regular & giant]
    Twain, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn [giant]
    Walton, The Compleat Angler
    Webb, Precious Bane
    Welty, Selected Stories
    Wilde, Picture of Dorian Gray/De Profundis
    Zola, Nana [?]
     

    George Giusti

     
    Dreiser, Sister Carrie
     

    Milton Glaser

     
    Misc, Roman Comedies (?)
    Singer, Selected Short Stories
    Tolstoy, Short Novels
    Tolstoy, Short Novels V. II
     

    Witold Gordon

     
    Misc., Arabian Nights
     

    Edward Gorey

     
    Fielding. Tom Jones
     

    Phillip Grushkin

     
    Tennyson, Selected Poetry
     

    A.H.

     
    Ludwig, Napoleon
     

    F.L.H.

     
    de Maupassant, Best Stories
    Wilde, Poems and Fairy Tales
     

    Hoffman

     
    Huxley, Brave New World
     

    Amy Hogeboom

     
    Hardy, Tess of the D'urbervilles
     

    R.C.J.

     
    Thackery, Vanity Fair
     

    Bernard Jones

     
    8.1, Austin, Novels [giant, original 30's DJ]
     

    Fritz Kredel

     
    Morier, Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan
    Boswell, Life of Johnson
     


    E. McKnight Kauffer   1  2  3

     
    Anderson, Winesburg Ohio
    Bellamy, Looking Backward
    Bennet, The Old Wives' Tale
    Boccaccio, Decameron
    Butler, Way of All Flesh
    Cervantes, Don Quixote
    Clausewitz, On War [giant]
    Du Maurier, Rebecca
    Faulkner, Sanctuary
    Faulkner, Light in August [?]
    Faulkner, Go Down Moses
    Gautier, Mademoiselle de Maupin
    Hammett, The Maltese Falcon
    Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
    Hudson, Green Mansions [regular & illustrated]
    Huxley, Point Counter Point
    James, Portrait of a Lady
    Lawrence, Women in Love
    Maurois, Disraeli
    Melville, Moby Dick [giant design, illustration is Kent]
    Palgrave, The Golden Treasury
    Perelman, Best Of
    Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
    Rabelais, Complete Works [giant]
    Spaeth, Guide to Great Orchestral Music [giant] [?]
    Stoker, Dracula
    Sterne, Tristam Shandy
    Sterne, Tristam Shandy and A Sentimental Journey [giant]
    Symonds, The Life of Michelangelo
    Thackeray, Henry Esmond
    Wright, Native Son [?]
    Young, The Medici
     

    Rockwell Kent

     
    Kent, Wilderness
    Melville, Moby Dick [giant illustration, design is Kauffer]
    Melville, Moby Dick [40's illustration]
    Melville, Moby Dick [30's illustration]
     

    L.

     
    112.2 Hughes, High Wind in Jamaica [flex]
    Petronius, The Satyricon
     

    J.L.

     
    Bennett, Old Wives' Tale
    Huysmans, Against the Grain
     

    Joseph Low

     
    Misc., Hellenistic Philosophy
    Misc., Medieval Philosophy
     

    Loederer

     
    Boccaccio, The Decameron
    Bronte, Jane Eyre
    Conrad, Lord Jim
    Hudson, Green Mansions
    Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    Tolstoy, War and Peace [giant]
    Tomlinson, The Sea & The Jungle
     

    Loeffel

     
    Walpole, Fortitude
     

    Freund Lurye

     
    Chekhov, Best Plays
     

    John Murello

     
    Spark, Memento Mori / Ballad of Peckam Rye
     

    Newman  

     
    Dickens, David Copperfield
    Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    Hemon, Maria Chapdelaine
    Maugham, Moon and Sixpence
    Reed, 10 days that Shook the World
    Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel [giant]
     

    O'Toole

     
    Dostoyevsky, The Possessed
     

    Irving Politzer

     
    Huneker, Painted Veils
    Misc., Oriental Romances

    R.J.R.

     
    188.1 Suetonius, Lives of the 12 Caesars [flexi]
     

    Ernst Reichl

     
    Plutarch, Lives [giant]
     

    J.E.S.

     
    Morley, Parnassus on Wheels
     

    I.S.

     
    Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
    Lewis, Arrowsmith
     

    George Salter

    Boccaccio, Decameron
    Camus, Resistance, Rebellion, and Death
    Misc., Anthology of Famous American Short Stories [giant]
    Misc., Anthology of Famous British Short Stories [giant]
    Misc., Famous Science Fiction Stories [giant]
    Misc., Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural [giant]
    Santayana, Sense of Beauty
    Tolstoy, Essays
    Tolstoy, Short Stories V.1
    Tolstoy, Short Stories V.2

    Jacqueline Schuman

     
    Strindberg, Plays
     

    William Sharp (W.S.)

     
    Day, Life with Father
    Dostoyevsky, Brothers Karamazov (Illustrated)
    O. Henry, Best Short Stories (illustration only - design by Blumenthal)
    Twain, Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (perhaps illustration only)

    Edward Stalloff

     
    143.1 Dumas, The Three Musketeers [flexi]
    Homer, The Iliad
    Homer, The Odyssey
    Whitman, Leaves of Grass
     

    L. Trevisan

     
    Mansfield, The Garden Party
     

    Lynd Ward

     
    Pearson, Studies in Murder
     

    Mariam Woods

     
    Faulkner, The Sound & the Fury/As I Lay Dying
     

    Wuyts

     
    Balzac, Droll Stories
    Boswell, Life of Johnson [giant]
    Casanova, Memoirs
    Cervantes, Don Quixote
    Corvo, History of the Borgias
    Goethe, Faust
     


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