A collection of several hundred selections from The Modern Library of the World's Best Books, a long-running series of classic literary works which underwent numerous design changes (and continues to do so). An interesting entry-level area for book collectors due to the wide availability and affordable prices of many volumes, but also rewarding for mid- to high-level collectors due to the minutiae involved in identifying the numerous printings of each title. The authoritative bibliography by Henry Toledano provides great guidance, but scholarship on this series continues to evolve.
![Item #2333227 The Possessed (The Modern Library, No. 55) [Demons]. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Constance...](https://yesterdaysmuse.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2333227.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1682015099)
New York: The Modern Library, 1963. O'Toole. Reissue. Hard Cover.
1967-8 printing of Toledano 055.3, binding/jacket style 13o, $2.95 jacket price, blank endpapers and jacket reverse. Jacket and pages lightly toned, two small closed tears on top jacket edge.
xiv, 736 pp. Complete and unabridged, including a hitherto suppressed chapter.....
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New York: The Modern Library, 1963. O'Toole. Reissue. Hard Cover.
1954-63 printing of Toledano 055.3, binding/jacket style 8i, 377 titles on jacket reverse, grey Rockwell Kent endpapers. Jacket price clipped, jacket edges rubbed.
xiv, 736 pp. Complete and unabridged, including a hitherto suppressed chapter never before printed in America. Translated.....
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New York: The Modern Library, 1930. O'Toole. Reissue. Hard Cover.
1939-63 printing of Toledano 055.3, binding style 8, grey Rockwell Kent endpapers. Pages lightly toned, ink date on front endpaper.
xiv, 736, [2] pp. Complete and unabridged, including a hitherto suppressed chapter never before printed in America. Translated from the.....
New York: The Modern Library. Reprint. Hard Cover.
1954-59 printing, Toledano 206.2, binding/jacket style 8i with 374 titles on verso, grey Rockwell Kent endpapers. Light stains along bottom board edges, jacket edges rubbed with minor loss from corners, rear jacket panel lightly soiled, jacket price clipped.
vi, 612 pp. 6-page.....
New York: The Modern Library, 2003. First Thus. Hard Cover.
2003 first thus, no Toledano number, $24.95 jacket price, brown decorative endpapers with an updated rendering of Modern Library's iconic torchbearer. Board edges lightly faded.
xvi, 423 pp. A new translation by Julie Rose. Introduction by Lorenzo Carcaterra. Paris, 1793.....
New York: The Modern Library, 1938. First Thus. Hard Cover.
1938 first thus, Toledano 191.2, binding style 7, orange Rockwell Kent endpapers. Lacks jacket. Spine faded, boards faintly soiled.
xii, 347 pp. With an introduction by the author. In 1929, he published his first novel, Rome Haul, a work about.....
New York: The Modern Library, 1966. First Thus. Hard Cover.
1966 first thus, Toledano 364.1, binding/jacket style 11l with blank verso, $2.45 jacket price, grey Rockwell Kent endpapers. Near fine in very good jacket. Jacket corners lightly rubbed.
xv, 363 pp. Edited by Ainslie T. Embree. CONTENTS: Preface; Explanatory Note;.....
![Item #2325107 The Complete Greek Tragedies, Volume V [5]: Euripides I: Alcestis; The Medea; The...](https://yesterdaysmuse.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2325107.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1652161591)
New York: The Modern Library, 1956. Reprint. Hard Cover.
1963-7 printing, Toledano 314.1, binding style 11, grey Rockwell Kent endpapers. Lacks jacket. Address label redacted on front endpaper, ink underlining in introduction.
439 pp. Edited by David Grene and Richmond Lattimore. Euripides (/jʊəˈrɪpɪdiːz/;[1] Ancient Greek: Εὐριπίδης, romanized: Eurīpídēs, pronounced [eu̯.riː.pí.dɛːs];.....
![Item #2325110 The Complete Greek Tragedies, Volume VII [7] Euripides III: Orestes; Iphigenia in...](https://yesterdaysmuse.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2325110.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1652161591)
New York: The Modern Library, 1959. Reprint. Hard Cover.
1963-7 printing, Toledano 316.1, binding style 11, grey Rockwell Kent endpapers. Lacks jacket. Light pencil underlining in introduction, tape ghost marks.
431 pp. Edited by David Grene and Richmond Lattimore. Euripides (c. 480 – c. 406 BC) was a tragedian of classical Athens.....
New York: The Modern Library, 1967. First Thus. Hard Cover.
1967 first thus, Toledano 376.1, binding/jacket style 12o with blank verso, $2.45 jacket price, beige Rockwell Kent endpapers. Near fine in very good jacket. Light crease on front jacket flap corner.
xx, 425 pp. Edited, translated, and introduced by Arturo.....
New York: The Modern Library, 1938. First Thus. Hard Cover.
First thus. Toledano G041.1, binding/jacket style G4/Gb, 262 titles on jacket verso, $1.25 jacket price. Near fine in good jacket. Loss from jacket corners, jacket toned (especially spine),
xii, 465 pp. With a new introduction by the author. Studs Lonigan.....
New York: The Modern Library, 1964. Reprint. Hard Cover.
1966 printing, Toledano 271.2, with no introduction, binding/jacket style 11l with blank verso, $2.45 jacket price, grey Rockwell Kent endpapers. Jacket and fore edge lightly foxed.
xii, 7-378, [16] pp. Chronology, genealogy, and map of Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha Co., Mississippi follow text.....
New York: The Modern Library, 1964. Reprint. Hard Cover.
1967-70 printing, Toledano 351.1, binding/jacket style 13o with blank verso, orange Fujita endpapers. Jacket price clipped.
247 pp. A classic Faulkner novel which explores the lives of a family of characters in the South. An aging black who has long refused.....
New York: The Modern Library, 1967. First Thus. Hard Cover.
1967 first thus, Toledano 380.1, binding/jacket style 12n with blank verso, $2.45 jacket price, brown Fujita endpapers. Near fine in very good jacket. Tape remnant on jacket spine base.
315 pp. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950. One.....
New York: The Modern Library, 1932. Reprint. Hard Cover.
1939-63 printing, Toledano 061.2, binding style 8i, grey Rockwell Kent endpapers. Lacks jacket. Spine and edges toned, hinges just beginning to weaken.
vii, 380, [6] pp. With a new introduction by the author. "A powerful novel examining the nature of evil.....
New York: The Modern Library, 1984. Alcorn, Stephen. First Thus. Hard Cover.
1984 first thus, no Toledano number, binding/jacket style 16q with list on verso, Modern Library torchbearer logo grid endpapers. Jacket price clipped.
399 pp. Jacket woodcut by Stephen Alcorn. A young doctor whose career is wrecked by a......
New York: The Modern Library, 1950. First Thus. Hard Cover.
1950 first thus, Toledano 088.5, binding/jacket style 8h with 348 titles on verso, $1.25 jacket price, grey Rockwell Kent endpapers. Ink name and date on front endpaper, jacket lightly rubbed and toned, with spine and fore edge of rear panel.....
New York: Boni & Liveright / The Modern Library, 1919. Reissue. Hard Cover.
1919-25 printing of Toledano 028.1 (Aveling translation, no introduction), binding 2, Brodzky endpapers. Front hinge weakening, binding a bit shaken, spine creased and rubbed.
[vi], 273 pp. Brown flexible boards, gilt titles. "For daring to peer into.....
New York: The Modern Library, 1962. First Thus. Hard Cover.
1962 first thus, Toledano 330.1, binding/jacket style 8j with 415 titles on verso, $1.95 jacket price, grey Rockwell Kent endpapers. Minor pencil marginalia, jacket lightly foxed with a few faint ink marks on rear panel.
472 pp. Edited by Angel.....
New York: The Modern Library, 1940. Reissue. Hard Cover.
1954-9 printing of Toledano 102.3, binding/jacket style 8i, 405 titles on jacket verso, $1.95 jacket price, grey Rockwell Kent endpapers. Edges a bit rubbed.
[iv], 307, [1] pp. 8vo. Originally published in 1935 - this edition includes a new foreword by.....
New York: The Modern Library, 1940. Reprint. Hard Cover.
1944-53 printing of Toledano 102.3, 8h, 95 cent jacket price, 303 titles on verso, grey Rockwell Kent endpapers. Very good in good jacket. Owner bookplate on front endpaper, jacket edges rubbed with loss from corners.
[iv], 307, [1] pp. 8vo. Originally.....
New York: The Modern Library, 1952. Reprint. Hard Cover.
1963-67 printing, Toledano G009.3, G6 binding. Lacks jacket. Ink underlining and marginalia, ink name and date on front endpaper.
xxx, 546 pp. This anthology endeavors to present, within the limits of a single volume, the major emphases of Protestant thought from.....
New York: The Modern Library, 1950. Reprint. Hard Cover.
1963-67 printing, Toledano 039.3, binding/jacket style 11i with unnumbered list on verso, grey Rockwell Kent endpapers. Binding style 11 was used from 1963-67, while jacket style i was used 1954-59, which indicates this is either a supplied jacket, or that an.....
New York: The Modern Library, 1965. Reissue. Hard Cover.
1966-70 printing of Toledano G039.1, binding/jacket style G7/Gh, $4.95 jacket price. Pages toned, jacket lightly toned.
vi, 1001 pp. 8vo. "This classic edition of The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud includes complete texts of six works that have profoundly influenced our.....
New York: The Modern Library, 1965. First Thus. Hard Cover.
1965 first thus, Toledano 358.1, binding/jacket style 11l with blank verso, $2.45 jacket price, grey Rockwell Kent endpapers. Near fine in very good jacket. Tape removal mark on jacket spine.
318 pp. Translated by Bernard Frechtman. Introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre.....