Confirmed Bindings for Each Title

Most Modern Library collecting seems to focus more on the dust jackets rather than the books. But I'm guessing that a significant number of collectors have an opposite focus, where the pieces of paper over the books are ancillary to what the DJs house. This table has been constructed to aid the collecting goals of such folks.

The following tastefully colored table identifies actual binding styles confirmed to exist for each title. A dot in a cell below a number identifies a title bound in that style as reported by a collector. If a row is shaded in blue, it is extremely likely that all bindings in existence for that title are dotted. Click a binding style number to see an example of that style and to read its parameters.

Bindings marked with @ instead of • are oddballs close to the indicated binding but unusual in some way.

Why this chart is necessary: There is no guarantee that a title in print between one date and another appeared in all bindings in use during that same period. A title might have remained in the series for many years, but there may have been enough bound copies to weather sales demands over a period in which another binding style was in use. For example, a title may have been printed and bound in 1961's binding style 8 without the need for another binding until late in 1963 in binding style 11; in such a case, that title would have no binding styles 9 or 10.

Obviously, this is an ongoing project that requires input from lots of folks—like you, for instance! If you have a title in a binding style not dotted here, please let us know so we can add it to the table. Click here for info about validating a new find.

Special thanks to Ron Holl of the Amenities Website who conceived this project and to ModernLib stalwarts John Krygier, John Peterson, and John Wolansky who, along with Ron and Scot Kamins, contributed the bulk of the original material for the table.

[A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [K] [L] [M]
[N] [O] [P] [Q] [R] [S] [T] [U] [V] [W] [Y] [Z]
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42nd Parallel Dos Passos
A
Absalom, Absalom! Faulkner
Act One Hart M.
Adventures of Augie March Bellow
Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan Morier
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Doyle
African Queen Forester
Against the Grain Huysmans
Age of Innocence Wharton
Age of Reason Sartre
Ah, Wilderness and Two Other Plays O'Neill
Alice in Wonderland etc Carroll
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2
3
4
4.5
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
All the King's Men Warren
Amenities of Book Collecting Newton
American Poetry 1671 - 1928 Misc
An Ideal Husband/Woman of No Importance Wilde
An Unsocial Socialist Shaw G.B.
Anatol and Other Plays Schnitzler
Ancient Man Van Loon
Ann Veronica Wells
Anna Karenina Tolstoy
Anthology of American Negro Literature Misc
Anthology of Irish Literature 2 Misc
Anthology of Light Verse Misc
Anthology of Medieval Lyrics Misc
Antic Hay Huxley
Aphrodite Louys
1
2
3
4
4.5
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
Apocrypha Misc
Apologia Pro Vita Sua Newman
Appointment In Samarra O'Hara
Arabian Nights Burton
Arrowsmith Lewis
Art of Aubrey Beardsley Beardsley
Art of Rodin Rodin
Art of Whistler Pennell E/J
As I lay Dying Faulkner
Autobiography Cellini
Autobiography Franklin
B
Babbitt Lewis
Barchester Towers & The Warden Trollope
Barren Ground Glasgow
1
2
3
4
4.5
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
Basic Works Cicero
Basic Writings Jung
Bed of Roses George W.
Belfry Sinclair
Bell for Adano Hersey
Ben Hur Wallace
Bertha Garlan Schnitzler
Best American Humorous Short Stories Misc
Best Ghost Stories Misc
Best of Perelman Perelman
Best Plays Chekhov
Best Russian Short Stories Misc
Best Short Stories Dostoevsky
Best Short Stories Harte
1
2
3
4
4.5
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
Best Short Stories Henry
Best Short Stories Maugham
Best Stories Maupassant
Best Tales Poe
Beyond Good and Evil Nietzsche
Beyond Life Cabell
Black Narcissus Godden
Book of Wonder Dunsany
Bostonians James H.
Brave New World Huxley
Brothers Karamazov Dostoevsky
Buddenbrooks Mann
Buddhist Tradition Misc
Bull From the Sea Renault
Butterfield 8 1 O'Hara
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C
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2
3
4
4.5
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
Cabala Wilder
Cabin Ibanez
Cakes and Ale Maugham
Camille Dumas
Candide Voltaire
Candide and Other Writings Voltaire
Canterbury Tales Chaucer
Capital and Other Writings Marx
Captive Proust
Cass Timberlane Lewis
Castle Kafka
Casuals of the Sea McFee
Catch-22 Heller
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2
3
4
4.5
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
Catcher in the Rye Salinger
Charterhouse of Parma Stendhal
Child of Pleasure D'Annunzio
Cities of the Plain Proust
Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy Burckhardt
Clarissa Richardson S
Clockwork Orange/Honey for the Bears Burgess
Cloister and the Hearth Reade
Collected Poetry Parker
Collected Short Stories Lardner
Collected Stories Parker
Collected Tales Forster
Comedies (One Volume) Shakespeare
Comedies Vol I Shakespeare
Comedies Vol II Shakespeare
1
2
3
4
4.5
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
Coming of Age in Samoa Mead
Compleat Angler Walton
Complete Essays and Other Writings Emerson
Complete Greek Tragedies Vol I Aeschylus
Complete Greek Tragedies Vol II Aeschylus
Complete Greek Tragedies Vol III Sophocles
Complete Greek Tragedies Vol IV Sophocles
Complete Greek Tragedies Vol V Euripides
Complete Greek Tragedies Vol VI Euripides
Complete Greek Tragedies Vol VII Euripides
Complete Plays Vol I Racine
Complete Plays Vol II Racine
Complete Poems Thompson
Complete Poems and Selected Letters Michelangelo
1
2
3
4
4.5
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
Complete Poetical Works Thompson
Complete Poetry Hoffenstein
Complete Poetry and Selected Prose Donne
Complete Poetry and Selected Prose Keats
Complete Poetry and Selected Prose Milton
Complete Works Horace
Complete Works Tacitus
Complete Writings Misc
Complete Writings Thucydides
Comprehensive Anthology of American Poetry Misc                
 
 
 
Confessions Augustine
Confessions Rousseau
Confessions of Felix Krull Mann
Confessions of Nat Turner Styron
Confessions of a Young Man Moore
1
2
3
4
4.5
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Twain
Consolation of Philosophy Boethius, etc.
Contemporary Science Misc
Counterfeiters Gide
Counterfeiters & the Journal Gide
Cousin Bette Balzac
Cream of the Jest Cabell
Creative Evolution Bergson
Creatures That Once Were Men Gorky
Crime and Punishment Dostoevsky
Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard France
Critique of Pure Reason Kant
Cyrano de Bergerac Rostand
D
1
2
3
4
4.5
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
Daisy Miller/An International Episode James H.
Dame Care Sudermann
Dance of Life Ellis
Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze Saroyan
Darkness at Noon Koestler
David Copperfield Dickens
De Profundis Wilde
Dead Souls Gogol
Death & Life of the Great American Cities Jacobs
Death Be Not Proud Gunther
Death Comes for the Archbishop Cather
Death of Ivan Ilyitch Tolstoy
Death of the Gods Merejkowski
Decameron Boccaccio
Deepening Stream Canfield
1
2
3
4
4.5
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
Diana of the Crossways Meredith
Diary of a Young Girl Frank
Dictionary: A Modern Selection Johnson
Disraeli Maurois
Divine Comedy Dante
Doctor Faustus Mann
Dodsworth Lewis
Doll's House/Ghosts/Enemy of the People Ibsen
Doll's House/Ghosts/Enemy of the People/Master Builder Ibsen
Don Juan Byron
Don Quixote Cervantes
Dracula Stoker
Drama of the English Renaissance Misc
Dreamer's Tales & Other Stories Dunsany
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2
3
4
4.5
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
Droll Stories Balzac
Dubliners Joyce
E
Ecce Homo and The Birth of Tragedy Nietzsche
Education of Henry Adams Adams
Ego And His Own Stirner
Egoist Meredith
Eight Famous Elizabethan Plays Misc
Eight Plays Moliere
Eight Spanish Plays of the Golden Age Misc
Eighteenth Century Plays Misc
Eminent Victorians Strachey
Emperor Jones/Anna Christie/Hairy Ape O'Neill