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

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George Annand
Young, The Medici (giant]

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F.B.
Kipling, Kim

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N.B.
Wilder, The Cabala

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Robert Ball
Petronius, The Satyricon

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Leonard Baskin
Kosinsky, The Painted Bird

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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]

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Brenner
Balzac, Pere Goriot and Eugenie Grandet

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

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Burch
Faulkner, Sanctuary

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C.
Mann, Magic Mountain

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

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

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

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Lewis C. Daniel
139.2, Ben Hur [flexi]

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Nat Falk
McFee, Casuals of the Sea

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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 [?]

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George Giusti
Dreiser, Sister Carrie

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

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Phillip Grushkin
Tennyson, Selected Poetry

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A.H.
Ludwig, Napoleon

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F.L.H.
de Maupassant, Best Stories Wilde, Poems and Fairy Tales

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Hoffman
Huxley, Brave New World

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Amy Hogeboom
Hardy, Tess of the D'urbervilles

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R.C.J.
Thackery, Vanity Fair

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

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

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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

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

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

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J.L.
Bennett, Old Wives' Tale Huysmans, Against the Grain

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Joseph Low
Misc., Hellenistic Philosophy Misc., Medieval Philosophy

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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

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Loeffel
Walpole, Fortitude

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Freund Lurye
Chekhov, Best Plays

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John Murello
Spark, Memento Mori / Ballad of Peckam Rye

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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]

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O'Toole
Dostoyevsky, The Possessed

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Irving Politzer
Huneker, Painted Veils Misc., Oriental Romances

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R.J.R.
188.1 Suetonius, Lives of the 12 Caesars [flexi]

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Ernst Reichl
Plutarch, Lives [giant]

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J.E.S.
Morley, Parnassus on Wheels

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I.S.
Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms Lewis, Arrowsmith

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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

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Jacqueline Schuman
Strindberg, Plays

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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)

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

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L. Trevisan
Mansfield, The Garden Party

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Lynd Ward
Pearson, Studies in Murder

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

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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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