Modern Library Jacket and Binding Subtype Finder

Collectors have long known that book bindings as well as DJ backs can be useful in identifying a date range for a book’s printing. But over the last few years observant collectors have noticed that there are subtypes—minor variations in style and text content—that can more tightly focus in on a date. So far variations in bindings have been uncovered for binding 5 and in dust jacket backs for styles a, b, h, and l through o. (By the way, these discoveries have opened new collecting areas: collecting all DJ back subtype variations for a particular title, collecting titles only with a specific subtype DJ back, and so on.)

Using the pull-down menu, choose the binding or DJ back you’re interested in; then click Update. In the table that appears a dot in a cell below a letter or number identifies the reported subtype. A dot below X indicates a report of a major type without the subtype specified; this usually means the report came in before the subtypes had been discovered. If a row is shaded in blue, it is extremely likely that all instances in existence for that title have been reported. Click a style letter or number for information about that style’s parameters.

If you know of a subtype for a title that doesn’t appear in the list after you click Update, or of a subtype not reported here for a listed title, please let us know.


Select jacket/binding type to display titles with subtypes:  

Displaying subtype information for jacket type Gh:

X
Gh1
Gh2
Gh3
Gh4
Gh5
Anna KareninaTolstoy 
   
Anthology of Famous American StoriesMisc
     
Anthology of Famous English and American PoetryMisc
     
Basic WritingsFreud   
 
Best Known NovelsEliot  
   
Bulfinch's MythologyBulfinch  
   
CapitalMarx    
 
Complete NovelsAusten     
Complete Novels/Selected TalesHawthorne  
Complete Plays of Gilbert & SullivanGilbert etc.  
   
Complete Poems of Keats & ShelleyKeats etc.    
 
Complete WorksHomer    
 
Complete WorksRabelais
     
Complete Works of Lewis CarrollCarroll    
X
Gh1
Gh2
Gh3
Gh4
Gh5
Conquest of Mexico and Conquest of PeruPrescott    
 
Doctor ZhivagoPasternak  
   
Don QuixoteCervantes  
   
Eleven PlaysIbsen
     
Encyclopedia of Modern American HumorMisc  
   
English Philosophers from Bacon to MillMisc  
Famous Science Fiction StoriesMisc    
 
Faulkner ReaderFaulkner
     
French RevolutionCarlyle
     
Great Ages and Ideas of the Jewish PeopleMisc
     
Great Classical MythsMisc
     
Guide to Great Orchestral MusicSpaeth
     
History of GreeceBury  
   
History of the Great American FortunesMyers  
   
X
Gh1
Gh2
Gh3
Gh4
Gh5
IdiotDostoyevsky  
   
Intelligence in the Modern WorldDewey   
  
Leatherstocking SagaCooper  
   
Leaves of GrassWhitman
     
Les MiserablesHugo   
 
Life and WritingsLincoln  
 
 
Medieval EpicsMisc  
  
Mind/Faith of Justice HolmesHolmes
     
Moonstone/Woman in WhiteCollins
     
New Anthology of Modern PoetryMisc  
   
Nine PlaysO'Neill  
   
Origin of the Species/Descent of ManDarwin  
  
ParodiesMisc 
   
Philosophies of Art and BeautyMisc    
 
X
Gh1
Gh2
Gh3
Gh4
Gh5
Plutarch's LivesPlutarch
     
Poems & PlaysBrowning  
   
Poems and PlaysTennyson  
   
Poems, Prose and PlaysPushkin  
 
Selected PoetrySpenser  
   
Selected Works/Citizen PaineFast/Paine  
   
Selected WritingsMelville    
 
Selected WritingsStevenson
     
Short StoriesJames H.  
  
Sixteen Famous British PlaysMisc  
   
Stoic & Epicurean PhilosophersMisc
     
Stories of Three DecadesMann   
  
Tale of GenjiMurasaki  
 
 
Thirty Famous One-Act PlaysMisc     
X
Gh1
Gh2
Gh3
Gh4
Gh5
Three Famous Murder NovelsMisc
     
Twelve Famous Plays of the Restoration and Eighteenth CenturyMisc  
   
UlyssesJoyce  
   
Wandering JewSue  
   
Wisdom of CatholicismMisc  
   
Wisdom of China and IndiaMisc   
  
Wisdom of IsraelMisc
     
Totals (63 titles)
17
2
31
10
15
6