Identifiers

The Modern Library Information Database

Introduction - What's available where and how to find it
Data Base Access
- All available book titles sorted by author - more than 430 authors
- All titles (regular, giant, illustrated, numbered paperbacks) sorted by genre
- Appropriate titles organized to fit a liberal arts education curriculum
- Allegedly Missing Dust Jackets - The Guide lists a bunch of dust jackets that aren't yet in the database. Do you have one of them?
- Entire list of books 1917 -1996 sorted by Toledano numbers
- Finding specific titles, authors, toledano numbers, and full-year catalogs - Fast access to the most searched-for information
- Regular issues sorted by title - about 630 of these
- Giant issues sorted by title - 115 or so
- College Edition issues sorted by title - about 120 of these
- Gift Sets - Christmas gift sets, some in innovative dust jackets and unusual bindings
- Modern Library Minis - Mini paperback series, ended after publication of one set
- Modern Library Chronicles Series - History series of 34 titles issued between 2000 and 2011
- Graphical Index to The illustrated editions - a display of all the examples of the illustrated editions in the ModernLib database
- Index to untomed authors - Works sorted by authors who appear in a Modern Library anthology but who have no volumes of their own in the series
- Numbered paperback issues sorted by title - all 68
- Pictorial DJs of the 1930's - nearly 150 of the ML's most beautiful pieces
- Selected images sorted by designer - about 50 designers identified

Identifying ML Works

British Editions of the 1930's - John Wolansky sends in some scans and comments
on his scarce copy of an early 1930's British printing of Humphry Clinker
Stalking the Unmarked First - Characteristics of ML first editions that don't say that
they're first editions
Buckram Editions - A brief description of the only ML's created with no dust jacket,
glassine, or box
Buckrams Actually Seen - Toledano identifies 376 buckram titles in the regular series
and 71 in the giants, but not all have been seen in the wild. This list verifies the ones
spotted by collectors
1929 Transitional Bindings - Between bindings #4 and #5 were at least two variations
that were used for just a few months
Unique Author Intros - Author Intros written especially for Modern Library editions
Index to Introduction Writers - Barry Neavill's list of introductions to volumes in the regular Modern Library and Modern Library Giants through 1985
Genre Dust Jacket Backs 1967 On - You can use the subtypes of these late DJ backs to tell if your dust jacket matches the book it covers