One area the Modern Library Price Guide does not address
(except in one case, P52) is identifying the existence
of reprints in the P-Numbered paperback series. The table below will
identify all known titles with reprints, and also include any special
comments about the titles. All 68 are listed (plus the Gulliver's
Travels reprint with different introduction), although
titles issued in Spring 1960 will not have reprints, and reprints from
titles issued in Fall 1959 will be difficult to identify.
In the case of reprints found, any price change from
original printing or color variations will be indicated in the Notes
column. Also, since the paperbacks do not have a comment column in
the guide, the Notes column will indicate any additional information about
the title. Additional information on ML P-Numbered paperbacks can be
found in the
Modern
Library Paperbacks Checklist and Dating Key, 1955 - 1960 by
Gordon B. Neavill.
Number |
Name |
Reprint |
Notes |
P1 |
Crime and Punishment |
Y |
Spring 1959 seen @ $1.25 |
P2 |
Seven Famous Greek Plays |
Y |
Color Variation
|
P3 |
Divine Comedy |
Y |
Fall 1958 seen |
P4 |
Great Modern Short Stories |
Y |
Spring 1959 seen
Color Variations |
P5 |
Republic |
Y |
Spring 1956 seen
Color Variation @ $1.25 (Spring 1959) |
P6a |
The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying |
Y |
Fall 1957 seen |
P6b |
The Sound and the Fury |
|
Originally printed at $1.25 |
P7 |
The Brothers Karamazov |
Y |
Fall 1957 seen |
P8 |
Tom Jones |
|
|
P9 |
Vanity Fair |
Y |
Color Variation |
P10a |
Gulliver's Travels |
|
|
P10b |
Gulliver's Travels |
|
|
P11 |
Leonardo Da Vinci, A Study in Psychosexuality |
|
|
P12 |
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas |
|
|
P13 |
Barabbas |
|
|
P14 |
Other Voices, Other Rooms |
Y |
See
Paperback Dating Key |
P15 |
The Royal Way |
|
|
P16 |
Of Human Bondage |
Y |
Spring 1958 seen |
P17 |
S.S. San Pedro / Castaway |
Y |
Spring 1958 seen |
P18 |
The Hamlet |
Y |
Spring 1959 seen @ $1.25
Color Variation |
P19 |
Prater Violet |
|
|
P20 |
The Sea and the Jungle |
|
|
P21 |
Famous Ghost Stories |
Y |
Fall 1958 seen
Color Variation |
P22 |
The Long March |
N |
Barry and Henry have confirmed
there was only one printing of this title. See Barry's comments
on this. |
P23 |
Against the Grain |
|
|
P24 |
Appreciation: Painting, Poetry and Prose |
|
|
P25 |
Troilus and Cressida |
Y |
Spring 1959 seen |
P26 |
True Tales from the Annals of Crime and Rascality |
Y |
Spring 1959 seen |
P27 |
The Pursuit of Love |
|
|
P28 |
Iceman Cometh |
Y |
Spring 1959 seen |
P29 |
The Kreutzer Sonata |
|
|
P30 |
Segregation |
Y |
Spring 1959 seen |
P31 |
Ox-Bow Incident |
Y |
Spring 1959 seen |
P32 |
BUtterfield 8 |
Y |
Spring 1959 seen |
P33 |
The Captain's Daughter and Other Great Stories |
|
|
P34 |
If it Die |
|
|
P35 |
The Muses Are Heard |
|
|
P36 |
Three Famous Short Novels |
Y |
Spring 1959 seen
Color Variation (First is green/others red) |
P37 |
Flight into Space |
|
Observed more than one copy
miscut on bottom through the P37 and "A Modern Library Paperback" |
P38 |
Makers of Mathematics |
Y |
seen @ $1.25
Color Variation |
P39 |
On the Track of Prehistoric Man |
|
Comment: 1/4 inch taller |
P40 |
The Seven That Were Hanged and Other Stories |
|
|
P41 |
Loved One |
Y |
Spring 1959 seen |
P42 |
Three Lives |
|
Comment: No 'P' on spine (just
42) |
P43 |
Straight and Narrow Path |
|
|
P44 |
Three Great Tales |
Y |
Spring 1959 seen
Color Variation |
P45 |
Ulysses in Nighttown |
|
|
P46 |
Your Child's Mind and Body |
N |
Barry has confirmed only one
printing of 9,800 copies. See his comments on this title. |
P47 |
The Immense Journey |
|
|
P48 |
Two Great Plays |
|
|
P49 |
Duveen |
|
|
P50 |
Great Russian Stories |
Y |
Color Variation |
P51 |
Space Handbook |
|
|
P52 |
A Suite of 180 Drawings |
Y |
See
Paperback Dating Key |
P53 |
The Elizabethan World Picture |
|
|
P54 |
The Apocrypha |
|
|
P55 |
The Copernican Revolution |
|
|
P56 |
Three Plays of Eugene O'Neill |
|
|
P57 |
The Way of Chinese Painting |
|
|
P58 |
The Maxims of La Rochefoucauld |
|
|
P59 |
Common Sense of Science |
|
|
P60 |
An Anthology of Russian Literature in the Soviet Period |
|
|
P62 |
Life Against Death |
|
|
P63 |
The Magic Barrel |
|
|
P64 |
The Shakespearean Moment |
|
Comment: 1/8 inch shorter |
P65 |
The Decipherment of LINEAR B |
|
|
P66 |
The Analects of Confucius |
|
|
P67 |
Totem and Taboo |
|
|
P68 |
The Art of Scientific Investigation |
|
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