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Looking for some ideas about what to collect and at the same time build the foundation for a first class library? We think that collecting the following list of books
compiled by The Modern Library editorial board as the “100 best books of the 20th century” would be a challenge, and quite costly if collecting first editions. Some collectors specialize in and collect Modern Library (Random House) editions which are much more affordable.
Ulysses, James Joyce
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler
Sons and Lovers, D. H. Lawrence
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry
The Way of All Flesh
, Samuel Butler
1984, George Orwell
I, Claudius, Robert Graves
To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
Native Son, Richard Wright
Henderson the Rain King, Saul Bellow
Appointment in Samarra, John O' Hara
U.S.A. (trilogy), John Dos Passos
Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson
A Passage to India, E. M. Forster
The Wings of the Dove, Henry James
The Ambassadors, Henry James
Tender Is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Studs Lonigan Trilogy, James T. Farrell
The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford
Animal Farm, George Orwell
The Golden Bowl, Henry James
Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser
A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh
As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren
The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder
Howards End, E. M. Forster
Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin
The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene
Lord of the Flies
, William Golding
Deliverance, James Dickey
A Dance to the Music of Time (series), Anthony Powell
Point Counter Point, Aldous Huxley
The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad
Nostromo, Joseph Conrad
The Rainbow, D. H. Lawrence
Women in Love, D. H. Lawrence
Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller
The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer
Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth
Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov
Light in August, William Faulkner
On the Road, Jack Kerouac
The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett
Parade's End, Ford Madox Ford
The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
Zuleika Dobson, Max Beerbohm
The Moviegoer, Walker Percy
Death Comes to the Archbishop, Willa Cather
From Here to Eternity, James Jones
The Wapshot Chronicles, John Cheever
The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger
A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maugham
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
Main Street, Sinclair Lewis
The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
The Alexandria Quartet, Lawrence Durrell
A High Wind in Jamaica, Richard Hughes
A House for Ms. Biswas,
V. S. Naipaul
The Day of the Locust, Nathaniel West
A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
Scoop, Evelyn Waugh
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark
Finnegans Wake, James Joyce
Kim, Rudyard Kipling
A Room With a View, E. M. Forster
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow
Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner
A Bend in the River, V. S. Naipaul
The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen
Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad
Ragtime, E. L. Doctorow
The Old Wives' Tale, Arnold Bennett
The Call of the Wild, Jack London
Loving, Henry Green
Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
Tobacco Road, Erskine Caldwell
Ironweed, William Kennedy
The Magus, John Fowles
Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
Under the Net, Iris Murdoch
Sophie's Choice, William Styron
The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles
The Postman Always Rings Twice, James M. Cain
The Ginger Man, J. P. Donleavy
The Magnificent Ambersons, Booth Tarkington
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Topical book collecting guides for sale on the internet
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Pocket Guide to the Identification of First Editions by Bill McBride
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Huxford's Old Book Value Guide: 25,000 Listings of Old Books With Current Values (Huxford's Old Book Value Guide, 13th Ed - 2001) by Bob Huxford, Sharon Huxford
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Ingram: An entirely new edition lists 25,000 titles--most of them commonly available--and their current values, along with scores of buyers listed by the type of book
wanted, and an index of authors' pen names. IP.
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Collected Books: The Guide to Values 2002 (Collected Books, 2002) by Allen Ahearn, Patricia Ahearn
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Here is the largest and most comprehensive single-volume guide to current market values of collectible books in America. Used by most book dealers and serious collectors in
the country, this guide explains how to identify first editions of books and covers a wide range of subjects, including Americana, early printed books, literature, mysteries, science fiction, children's
books, natural history, photography, and travel. Prices range from $200 for Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain, to $750,000 for the original London 1865 edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,
and beyond.
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The Official Price Guide to Collecting Books (Official Price Guide to Old Books) 4th edition 2001- by Marie Tedford, Pat Goudey
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A Collector’s Guide to the Wonderful World of Books! Whether you’ve found a century-old cookbook in your attic, are curious about your favorite contemporary author, or want
to appraise a classic from your childhood, The Official ® Price Guide to Collecting Books offers all the professional advice and information you need to determine the right values and the proper
care for your books. COMPLETELY REVISED AND UPDATED: The Official ® Price Guide to Collecting Books contains values for thousands of titles, from classic to contemporary, to help you enrich your
shelves with unforgettable stories and priceless collectibles! LISTINGS BY AUTHOR FOR EASY REFERENCE: Plus, there are listings of authors cross-referenced by category. EVERY GENRE IS INCLUDED: From
medical texts and early travel journals to science fiction and poetry, this incredible sourcebook covers both the old and the new—from Shakespeare and Dickens to Clancy and Grisham. PROFESSIONAL ADVICE:
This book contains valuable tips on buying, selling, and preserving your books, as well as a complete glossary of book-collecting terms.
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Collecting Little Golden Books: A Collector's Identification and Price Guide (Collecting Little Golden Books, 5th Ed) by Steve Santi
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More pictures. More listings. Updated prices. Bigger and better than ever, the newest edition of this best-selling book is a must-have for any collector of childrens books
or anyone in search of a childhood memory. Besides providing expanded listings for variations like page counts and graphics, this comprehensive guide also includes photos of every Little Golden Book
produced through 1999, as well as new photos of Little Little Golden Books, First Little Golden Books, and Big Little Golden Books. -The most accurate, complete, easy-to-use guide available. -Now
includes listings for more than 800 Little Golden Book Records. -Additional listings and new photos for Elf, Wonder, Treasure, and Tell-A-Tale books.
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Collector's Guide to Children's Books: 1950-1975: Identification and Values (Collectors Guide to Children's Books, Vol 3) by Diane McClure Jones, Rosemary Jones
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Collector's Guide to Children's Books 1850 to 1950: Identification & Values (Collector's Guide to Children's Books, Vol 1) by Diane McClure Jones, Rosemary Jones
(Contributor)
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The Secret of Collecting Girls' Series Books by John Axe
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Book includes chapters on: values, Grading the Condition of Books, Cleaning Collectible Books, Common Abbreviations and Terms, Formats, Ruth Fielding, Edward Stratemeyer,
Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, Nancy Drew Book Values and Volumes 1 to 56, Judy Bolton Mystery Stories, Margaret Sutton, Judy Bolton Book Values and Volumes 1 to 38, The Beverly Gray Mystery Series, Beverly
Gray Book Values and Volumes 1 to 25, Kay Tracey Mystery Stories, Kay Tracey Book values Volumes 1 to 18, Penny Parker Mystery Stories, and Penny Parker Books values Volumes 1 to 17.
Amazon review
from A reader from Waterford, NY USA - The title of this book may mislead some readers to believe that it covers many girls' series books, when in reality it covers only the following: Nancy Drew, Judy
Bolton, Kay Tracey, Beverly Gray, Penny Parker, and Ruth Fielding. (The subtitle of the book indicates that these series are featured, but it is still not necessarily clear that they are the only series
in the book.) That being said, this book is clearly a labor of love by a person who knows what he's talking about. There is intelligent discussion on collecting books, cleaning old books, estimating
values, and different formats.
And then... the pictures. This book includes full color photographs of all the book covers in their various incarnations. For instance, on one page are placed the
FOUR different covers for Nancy Drew's "The Clue of the Broken Locket." It's fun to see how the covers evolved over the years, and the author offers much historical information about the cover
artists, the Stratemeyer Syndicate in general, and the various editions in which the books have been offered. The other series mentioned above are treated in a similar manner. Overall this is an
attractively designed book that can give pleasure whether you browse leisurely or read closely. Enjoy!
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Points of Issue: A Compendium of Points of Issue of Books by 19Th-20th Century Authors by Bill McBride
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First Editions: A Guide to Identification by Edward N Zempel (Editor)
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From Library Journal: Book collectors seek first editions, but many publishers provide little assistance in this quest. Even when they do designate edition and/or printing,
they do not all use the same system. Thus, Harper & Row deletes numbers in successive reprints; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich adds letters. Some publishers denote edition or printing on the copyright
page with the last number on the right, others with the first number on the left; still others note only second and later editions. Hence, this book is indispensable to collectors and libraries serving
them. Zempel and Verkler have collected statements from some 1700 20th-century publishers of English-language books--about 700 more than in their 1984 edition--indicating current practices and earlier
methods as far back as 1928. The guide also helps track down acquisitions and publishers' name changes. A worthy additions to most collections.
- Joseph Rosenblum, Univ. of North Carolina, Greensboro
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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