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.

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42nd Parallel Dos Passos
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Absalom, Absalom! Faulkner
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Act One Hart M.
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Adventures of Augie March Bellow
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Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan Morier
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Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Doyle
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African Queen Forester
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Against the Grain Huysmans
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Age of Innocence Wharton
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Age of Reason Sartre
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Ah, Wilderness and Two Other Plays O'Neill
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Alice in Wonderland etc Carroll
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All the King's Men Warren
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Amenities of Book Collecting Newton
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American Poetry 1971 - 1928 Misc
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An Ideal Husband/Woman of No Importance Wilde
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An Unsocial Socialist Shaw G.B.
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Anatol and Other Plays Schnitzler
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Ancient Man Van Loon
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Ann Veronica Wells
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Anna Karenina Tolstoy
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Anthology of American Negro Literature Misc
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Anthology of Irish Literature 2 Misc
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Anthology of Light Verse Misc
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Anthology of Medieval Lyrics Misc
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Antic Hay Huxley
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Aphrodite Louys
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Apocrypha Misc
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Apologia Pro Vita Sua Newman
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Appointment In Samarra O'Hara
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Arabian Nights Burton
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Arrowsmith Lewis
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Art of Aubrey Beardsley Beardsley
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Art of Rodin Rodin
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Art of Whistler Pennell E/J
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As I lay Dying Faulkner
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Autobiography Cellini
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Autobiography Franklin
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Babbitt Lewis
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Barchester Towers & The Warden Trollope
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Barren Ground Glasgow
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Basic Works Cicero
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Basic Writings Jung
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Bed of Roses George W.
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Belfry Sinclair
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Bell for Adano Hersey
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Ben Hur Wallace
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Bertha Garlan Schnitzler
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Best American Humorous Short Stories Misc
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Best Ghost Stories Misc
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Best of Perelman Perelman
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Best Plays Chekhov
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Best Russian Short Stories Misc
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Best Short Stories Dostoevsky
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Best Short Stories Harte
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Best Short Stories Henry
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Best Short Stories Maugham
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Best Stories Maupassant
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Best Tales Poe
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Beyond Good and Evil Nietzsche
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Beyond Life Cabell
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Black Narcissus Godden
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Book of Wonder Dunsany
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Bostonians James H.
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Brave New World Huxley
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Brothers Karamazov Dostoevsky
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Buddenbrooks Mann
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Buddhist Tradition Misc
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Bull From the Sea Renault
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Butterfield 8 1 O'Hara
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Cabala Wilder
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Cabin Ibanez
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Cakes and Ale Maugham
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Camille Dumas
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Candide Voltaire
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Candide and Other Writings Voltaire
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Canterbury Tales Chaucer
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Capital and Other writings Marx
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Captive Proust
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Cass Timberlane Lewis
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Castle Kafka
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Casuals of the Sea McFee
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Catch-22 Heller
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Catcher in the Rye Salinger
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Charterhouse of Parma Stendhal
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Child of Pleasure D'Annunzio
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Cities of the Plain Proust
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Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy Burckhardt
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Clarissa Richardson S
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Clockwork Orange/Honey for the Bears Burgess
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Cloister and the Hearth Reade
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Collected Poetry Parker
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Collected Short Stories Lardner
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Collected Stories Parker
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Collected Tales Forster
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Comedies (One Volume) Shakespeare
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Comedies Vol I Shakespeare
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Comedies Vol II Shakespeare
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Coming of Age in Samoa Mead
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Compleat Angler Walton
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Complete Essays and Other Writings Emerson
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Complete Greek Tragedies Vol I Aeschylus
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Complete Greek Tragedies Vol II Aeschylus
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Complete Greek Tragedies Vol III Sophocles
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Complete Greek Tragedies Vol IV Sophocles
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Complete Greek Tragedies Vol V Euripides
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Complete Greek Tragedies Vol VI Euripides
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Complete Greek Tragedies Vol VII Euripides
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Complete Plays Vol I Racine
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Complete Plays Vol II Racine
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Complete Poems Thompson
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Complete Poems and Selected Letters Michelangelo
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Complete Poetical Works Thompson
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Complete Poetry Hoffenstein
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Complete Poetry & Selected Prose Keats
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Complete Poetry and Selected Prose Donne
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Complete Poetry and Selected Prose Milton
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Complete Works Horace
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Complete Works Tacitus
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Complete Writings Thucydides
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Comprehensive Anthology of American Poetry Misc
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Confessions Augustine
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Confessions Rousseau
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Confessions of Felix Krull Mann
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Confessions of Nat Turner Styron
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Confessions of a Young Man Moore
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Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Twain
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Consolation of Philosophy Boethius, etc.
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Contemporary Science Misc
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Counterfeiters Gide
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Counterfeiters & the Journal Gide
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Cousin Bette Balzac
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Cream of the Jest Cabell
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Creative Evolution Bergson
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Creatures That Once Were Men Gorky
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Crime and Punishment Dostoevsky
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Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard France
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Critique of Pure Reason Kant
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Cyrano de Bergerac Rostand
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Daisy Miller/An International Episode James H.
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Dame Care Sudermann
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Dance of Life Ellis
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Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze Saroyan
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Darkness at Noon Koestler
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David Copperfield Dickens
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De Profundis Wilde
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Dead Souls Gogol
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Death & Life of the Great American Cities Jacobs
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Death Be Not Proud Gunther
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Death Comes for the Archbishop Cather
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Death of Ivan Ilyitch Tolstoy
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Death of the Gods Merejkowski
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Decameron Boccaccio
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Deepening Stream Canfield
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Diana of the Crossways Meredith
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Diary of a Young Girl Frank
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Dictionary: A Modern Selection Johnson
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Disraeli Maurois
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Divine Comedy Dante
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Doctor Faustus Mann
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Dodsworth Lewis
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Doll's House/Ghosts/Enemy of the People Ibsen
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Doll's House/Ghosts/Enemy of People/Master Builder Ibsen
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Don Juan Byron
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Don Quixote Cervantes
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Dracula Stoker
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Drama of the English Renaissance Misc
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Dreamer's Tales & Other Stories Dunsany
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Droll Stories Balzac
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Dubliners Joyce
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Ecce Homo and The Birth of Tragedy Nietzsche
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Education of Henry Adams Adams
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Ego And His Own Stirner
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Egoist Meredith
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Eight Famous Elizabethan Plays Misc
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Eight Plays Moliere
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Eight Spanish Plays of the Golden Age Misc
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Eighteenth Century Plays Misc
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Eminent Victorians Strachey
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Emperor Jones/Anna Christie/Hairy Ape O'Neill</