Confirmed Buckram Bindings for Each Regular Title

The following tastefully colored table identifies actual binding styles confirmed to exist for each title in the regular buckram series. 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.

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A		B1	B2	B3a	B3b	B4	B5
Act One	Hart M.			•
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes	Doyle	•
African Queen	Forester	•
Age of Innocence	Wharton	•
Age of Reason	Sartre			•
Ah, Wilderness and Two Other Plays	O'Neill			•
Alice in Wonderland etc	Carroll	•
Anthology of Irish Literature	Misc	•
Aphrodite	Louys	•
Appointment In Samarra	O'Hara	•
Arabian Nights' Entertainments	Burton			•
Art of Aubrey Beardsley	Beardsley	•
Autobiography	Cellini	•
Autobiography	Franklin	•	•
B		B1	B2	B3a	B3b	B4	B5
Barchester Towers & The Warden	Trollope	•
Basic Works	Cicero	•
Basic Writings	Jung	•
Best American Humorous Short Stories	Misc	•
Best of Perelman	Perelman	•
Best Russian Short Stories	Misc	•
Best Short Stories	Henry	•
Best Short Stories	Maugham	•
Best Stories	Maupassant	•
Brothers Karamazov	Dostoyevsky		•
C		B1	B2	B3a	B3b	B4	B5
Cakes and Ale	Maugham	•
Camille	Dumas	•
Candide and Other Writings	Voltaire	•
Canterbury Tales	Chaucer	•	•
Captive	Proust		•
Castle	Kafka						•
Clarissa	Richardson S.	•
Cloister and the Hearth	Reade	•
Collected Poetry	Parker		•
Comedies Vol I	Shakespeare	•
Comedies Vol II	Shakespeare	•
Complete Greek Tragedies Vol I	Aeschylus	•	•
Complete Greek Tragedies Vol III	Sophocles	•
Complete Greek Tragedies Vol V	Euripides	•
		B1	B2	B3a	B3b	B4	B5
Complete Greek Tragedies Vol VII	Euripides	•
Complete Poems and Selected Letters	Michelangelo			•
Complete Poetry & Selected Prose	Keats	•
Complete Poetry and Selected Prose	Donne	•
Complete Poetry and Selected Prose	Milton	•
Complete Works	Horace	•
Complete Works	Tacitus		•
Complete Writings of Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War	Thucydides	•
Comprehensive Anthology of American Poetry	Misc	•
Confessions	Augustine		•
Confessions	Rousseau	•
Confessions of Felix Krull	Mann			•
Confessions of Nat Turner	Styron						•
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court	Twain	•
		B1	B2	B3a	B3b	B4	B5
Consolation of Philosophy	Boethius, etc.	•
Cousin Bette	Balzac	•
Creative Evolution	Bergson	•
Crime and Punishment	Dostoyevsky	•
Critique of Pure Reason	Kant	•
Cyrano de Bergerac	Rostand	•
D		B1	B2	B3a	B3b	B4	B5
Darkness at Noon	Koestler	•
David Copperfield	Dickens	•
Dead Souls	Gogol			•
Decameron	Boccaccio	•
Diary of a Young Girl	Frank	•
Disraeli	Maurois	•
Divine Comedy	Dante	•	•
Dodsworth	Lewis			•
Dracula	Stoker		•
Droll Stories	Balzac	•
Dubliners	Joyce	•					•
E		B1	B2	B3a	B3b	B4	B5
Education of Henry Adams	Adams		•
Egoist	Meredith	•
Eight Famous Elizabethan Plays	Misc	•
Eight Plays	Moliere	•
Eight Spanish Plays of the Golden Age	Misc			•
Eminent Victorians	Strachey	•
Emperor Jones/Anna Christie/Hairy Ape	O'Neill	•
F		B1	B2	B3a	B3b	B4	B5
Fall/Exile and the Kingdom	Camus			•
Fathers and Sons	Turgenev	•
Faust	Goethe	•
Federalist	Misc	•
Five Great Modern Irish Plays	Misc	•
Flowering Judas	Porter	•
Four Plays	Shaw G.B.	•
Fourteen Great Detective Stories	Misc	•
G		B1	B2	B3a	B3b	B4	B5
Gallic War and Other Writings	Caesar	•
Go Down Moses	Faulkner	•	•
God's Little Acre	Caldwell	•
Golden Treasury	Palgrave	•
Good Earth	Buck	•
Great German Short Novels and Stories	Misc	•
Great Spanish Stories	Misc	•
Great Tales of the American West	Misc	•
Greek Commonwealth	Zimmern	•
Greek Poets	Misc	•
Green Mansions	Hudson	•
Guermantes Way	Proust	•
Gulliver's Travels & Other Writings	Swift	•
H		B1	B2	B3a	B3b	B4	B5
Hiroshima	Hersey	•
Histories Vol I	Shakespeare	•
Human Nature and Conduct	Dewey		•
Humphry Clinker	Smollett			•
Hunchback of Notre Dame	Hugo	•
I		B1	B2	B3a	B3b	B4	B5
I Can Get It For You Wholesale	Weidman		•
I, Claudius	Graves	•
Iliad	Homer	•
In Cold Blood	Capote					•
In Dubious Battle	Steinbeck	•
Interpretation of Dreams	Freud	•
Introduction to Aristotle	Aristotle	•
Introduction to St. Thomas Aquinas	Aquinas		•
Intruder in the Dust	Faulkner			•			•
Invisible Man	Ellison				•
Irish Fairy & Folk Tales	Misc	•
J		B1	B2	B3a	B3b	B4	B5
Jane Eyre	Bronte C.	•
John Dewey On Education	Dewey			•
Joseph Andrews	Fielding	•
Journals	Emerson	•
K		B1	B2	B3a	B3b	B4	B5
Kierkegaard Anthology	Kierkegaard	•
Kim	Kipling			•
L		B1	B2	B3a	B3b	B4	B5
Late George Apley	Marquand	•
Latin Poets	Misc	•
Life & Works of Beethoven	Burk	•
Life and Selected Writings	Jefferson	•
Life of Jesus	Renan		•
Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti	Symonds	•
Life of Samuel Johnson	Boswell	•
Light in August	Faulkner	•
Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects	Vasari	•
Lives of the Twelve Caesars	Suetonius	•
Long Voyage Home	O'Neill	•
Looking Backward	Bellamy	•
Lord Jim	Conrad	•
Lust for Life	Stone	•
M		B1	B2	B3a	B3b	B4	B5
Madame Bovary	Flaubert	•
Making of Man	Misc	•
Making of Society	Misc	•
Man's Fate	Malraux	•
Mayor of Casterbridge	Hardy	•
Medici	Young	•
Medieval Romances	Misc	•
Moby Dick	Melville	•
Moll Flanders	Defoe	•
Moon and Sixpence	Maugham	•
N		B1	B2	B3a	B3b	B4	B5
Napoleon	Ludwig	•
New Voices in the American Theatre	Misc	•
Nostromo	Conrad	•
Notebooks	Da Vinci	•
Notebooks, 1935-1942	Camus						•
O		B1	B2	B3a	B3b	B4	B5
Odyssey	Homer	•
Of Human Bondage	Maugham	•
Of Mice and Men	Steinbeck	•
Old Wives' Tale	Bennett	•
On Population	Malthus	•
Oracles of Nostradamus	Ward	•
Ordeal of Richard Feverel	Meredith	•
Oregon Trail	Parkman	•
Our Mutual Friend	Dickens	•
Outline of Abnormal Psychology	Misc	•
Outline of Psychoanalysis	Misc	•
P		B1	B2	B3a	B3b	B4	B5
Past Recaptured	Proust	•
Pathfinder	Cooper	•
Penguin Island	France	•
Pensees and the Provincial Letters	Pascal		•
Pere Goriot and Eugenie Grandet	Balzac	•
Persian Wars	Herodotus	•
Personal History of Henry VIII	Hackett	•
Philosophical Writings	Descartes	•
Philosophy	Hegel		•
Philosophy	Hume				•
Philosophy	James W.	•
Philosophy	Kant	•
Philosophy of John Stuart Mill	Mill	•
Philosophy of Spinoza	Spinoza	•
		B1	B2	B3a	B3b	B4	B5
Philosophy [Works] of Plato	Plato	•
Pickwick Papers	Dickens	•	•
Plague	Camus	•
Plays	Wilde	•
Poems	Longfellow	•
Poems	Swinburne	•
Poems and Fairy Tales	Wilde	•
Point Counter Point	Huxley	•
Politics	Aristotle	•
Poorhouse Fair/Rabbit, Run	Updike			•
Portrait of a Lady	James H.	•
Precious Bane	Webb			•
Pride and Prejudice/Sense and Sensibility	Austen	•
Prince and The Discourses	Machiavelli	•
R		B1	B2	B3a	B3b	B4	B5
Rainbow	Lawrence	•
Rebecca	Du Maurier D	•
Red and the Black	Stendhal	•
Red Badge of Courage	Crane	•
Renaissance	Pater	•
Republic	Plato	•
Resistance, Rebellion, and Death	Camus				•
Restoration Plays	Misc	•
Return of the Native	Hardy	•
Rhetoric and Poetics	Aristotle	•
Rise of Silas Lapham	Howells	•
Roman Comedies	Misc				•
Romance of Leonardo Da Vinci	Merejkowski	•
S		B1	B2	B3a	B3b	B4	B5
Saint Joan/Major Barbara/Androcles	Shaw G.B.	•
Samuel Pepys' Diary	Pepys	•
Sanctuary	Faulkner	•
Scarlet Letter	Hawthorne	•
Selected Essays	Montaigne	•
Selected Essays	Tolstoy			•
Selected Papers	Russell	•
Selected Poems	Dickinson	•
Selected Poetry	Auden		•
Selected Poetry	Browning	•
Selected Poetry	Byron	•
Selected Poetry	Tennyson	•
Selected Poetry	Wordsworth	•
Selected Poetry and Prose	Blake		•
		B1	B2	B3a	B3b	B4	B5
Selected Poetry and Prose	Coleridge	•
Selected Poetry and Prose	Shelley	•
Selected Short Stories	Faulkner		•
Selected Short Stories	O'Hara	•
Selected Stories	Aleichem	•
Selected Stories	Kafka	•
Selected Works	Pope	•
Selected Writings	Bacon	•
Selected Writings	Capote			•
Selected Writings	Emerson	•
Selected Writings	Irving	•
Selected Writings	Michener	•
Selected Writings	Stein G.	•
Seven Gothic Tales	Dinesen	•
		B1	B2	B3a	B3b	B4	B5
She/King Solomon's Mines	Haggard	•
Short Bible	Misc	•
Short History of United States	Nevins etc.	•	•
Short Novels	Tolstoy			•
Short Novels Vol II	Tolstoy			•
Short Stories	Chekhov [Tchekov]						•
Short Stories	Saki	•
Short Stories	Tolstoy			•
Short Stories Vol II	Tolstoy			•
Sister Carrie	Dreiser	•
Six American Plays for Today	Misc	•
Six Modern American Plays	Misc	•
Six Plays	Hellman	•
Six Plays	Ibsen	•
		B1	B2	B3a	B3b	B4	B5
Six Plays	Odets	•
Six Plays by Corneille & Racine	Corneille etc.	•
Sons and Lovers	Lawrence	•
Sound and the Fury & As I lay Dying	Faulkner			•
Steppenwolf	Hesse	•
Swann's Way	Proust	•
T		B1	B2	B3a	B3b	B4	B5
Tale of Two Cities	Dickens	•
Ten Days That Shook the World	Reed			•
Tess of the D'Urbervilles	Hardy	•
Theory of the Leisure Class	Veblen	•
Three Musketeers	Dumas	•
Thurber Carnival	Thurber	•
Thus Spake Zarathustra	Nietzsche	•
Tobacco Road	Caldwell	•
Tom Jones	Fielding	•		•
Tono-Bungay	Wells			•
Tortilla Flat	Steinbeck	•
Tragedies Vol I	Shakespeare	•
Tragedies Vol II	Shakespeare	•
Travels of Marco Polo	Polo	•
		B1	B2	B3a	B3b	B4	B5
Treasury of Damon Runyon	Runyon	•	•
Trial	Kafka	•
Tristram Shandy	Sterne	•
Turn of the Screw	James H.	•
Twentieth Century American Poetry	Misc			•
Twenty German Poets	Misc				•
Two Novels	Malamud			•
Two Years Before the Mast	Dana	•
U		B1	B2	B3a	B3b	B4	B5
Uncle Tom's Cabin	Stowe			•
V		B1	B2	B3a	B3b	B4	B5
Vanity Fair	Thackeray	•	•
Varieties of Religious Experience	James W.	•
Verses From 1929 On	Nash			•
Vicar of Wakefield	Goldsmith	•	•
Victory	Conrad	•
Virgil's Works	Virgil	•
W		B1	B2	B3a	B3b	B4	B5
Walden and Other Writings	Thoreau	•
Washington Square	James H.	•
Way of All Flesh	Butler	•
What Makes Sammy Run?	Schulberg	•
Wild Duck & Other Plays	Ibsen	•
Wings of The Dove	James H.	•
Wisdom of Confucius	Confucius	•
Wisdom of Laotse	Laotse (Lao-Tzu)	•
Within a Budding Grove	Proust	•
Women in Love	Lawrence	•
Woodrow Wilson's Addresses	Wilson W.	•
Wuthering Heights	Bronte E.	•
Y		B1	B2	B3a	B3b	B4	B5
Young Lions	Shaw I.	•
Z		B1	B2	B3a	B3b	B4	B5
Zuleika Dobson	Beerbohm	•
Totals		236	26	30	5	1	6

Total regular buckrams: 304 bindings for 291 titles