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20th-Century Publishers Book Series

An affordable option for building a cheap home library, 20th-century publishers book series included reprints of classics and publisher’s back catalog titles as well as newly commissioned titles. A few series dominated, such as Everyman’s Library and the Modern Library, but there are many others. These pages document the diversity of 20th-century reprint book series. Click on a series below for more information about the series.

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Abbey Classics
Abbey Classics (Murray’s)
Abbey Library
Abbey Library (Murray’s)
Abercrombie & Fitch Library
Academy Books
Academy Classics
Acme Library
Adelaide Series
Adelphi Library
Albemarle Library
Aldine Library
American Classics
American Fiction Library
American Fiction Series
American Library
An American Bookshelf
An Oriental Bazaar
Appleton Biographies
Appleton Library of Verse
Arden Library
Ardent Classics
Argosy Books
Arrowsmith’s 2/- Net Novels
Arrowsmith’s Fiction Series
Astor Edition of Poets
Astor Library
Batsford’s Half-Guinea Library
Beacon Library
Beacon Library of Fiction Classics
Bell’s Miniature Series of Great Writers
Benington Books
Best Value Books
Bibliophilist Society
Bibliotheca Neerlandica
Big Dollar Books
Bilingual Series
Black and Gold Library
Black Jacket Books
Blackie’s Famous Books
Blue Jade Library
Blue Ribbon Books
Blue Seal Books
Bodley Head Library
Bohn’s Popular Library
Bonibooks (Paper Books)
Book Collectors’ Association / Personal Books
Book League of America
Booklover’s Library
Bookman Library
Borzoi Books (Paper)
Borzoi Classics
Borzoi Pocket Books
Bourbon Classics
Brentano’s Contemporary Drama Series
Broadway Diaries, Memoirs and Letters
Broadway Library of Eighteenth-Century French Literature
Broadway Medieval Library
Broadway Oriental Library
Broadway Translations
Broadway Travellers
Brocade Series
Buchreihe Unitas
Burlington Library
Burt’s Home Library
Burt’s Mammoth Series
Burt’s Pocket Edition of Standard Classics
Burt’s Popular Copyright Fiction
Cabinet Library
Calumet Series
Cambridge English Classics
Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature
Cambridge Miscellany
Camden Classics
Cameo Classics
Capricorn Books
Caravan Library
Carlton Classics
Carlton House
Casket Library
Cassell’s National Library
Cassell’s Pocket Library
Cassell’s Shilling Novels
Cathedrals, Abbeys & Famous Churches
Caxton Series
Centaur Classics
Center Books
Century Library
Century Series
Chameleon Books
Champak Library
Chandos Classics
Chapman and Hall’s 2/- Net Library
Chevron Books
Chiltern Library
Clarendon Series of English Literature
Classic Novels
Classics of Russian Literature
Classics of Russian Poetry
Clifford Library
Clipper Books
Collins’ Classics
Comedie d’Amour Series
Companion Books
Consol Classics
Constable’s Miscellany
Contemporary Fiction
Contemporary Poets of Dorrance
Contemporary Series
Continental Books
Cornell Series
Cosmos Library
Cottage Library
Country Library
Covent Garden Library
Covent Garden Series of Restoration Plays
Cresset Library
Crime Club
Criterion Miscellany
Crowell’s Colonial Series
Crowell’s Poets
Crown Classics
Crown Constable
Cygnet Books
Daily Express Fiction Library
Daisy Series
De La More Booklets
Deep Sea Library
Dent’s Double Volumes
Direction Series
Discussion Books
Dohnavur Books
Dollar Library
Dollar Series
Dolphin Books
Donohue’s Popular Copyright Fiction
Doric Books
Doughty Library
Drama Library
Ebony Library
Eclectic Library
Edinburgh Library
Editions Poetry London
Eighteenth-Century Novels
English Library
English Life in English Literature
English Literature Library
English Masterpieces
English Men of Letters
English Novelists Series
English Readings
English Reprints
English Series
Envelope Books
Essex Library (Ernest Benn)
Essex Library (Stanley Paul)
Essex Series
European Classics
Evergreen Books
Evergreen Library
Evergreen Series
Every Irishman’s Library
Everyman’s Library
Everyman’s University Library
Everyone’s Library
F.P. Library
Faber Library
Falcon Prose Classics
Famous Novels
Father and Son Library
Fellowship Books
Ferret Library
Film Lover’s Library
Fireside Library
First Novel Library
Fitzroy Library
Flexibles
Florin Books
Fortune Play Books
Forum Series
Fountain Library
Gateway Library
Gateway Poets
Gay’s Shilling Library
Globe Edition / Globe Library
Gold Medal Books
Gold Seal Books
Golden Anthologies
Golden Books
Golden Dragon Library
Golden Hind Series
Golden Library
Golden Treasury Series
Goldfinch Titles
Grayson Books
Great Composers Series
Great French Romances
Great Illustrated Classics
Great Letters Series
Great Lives
Great Lives in Brief
Great Masters in Painting & Sculpture
Great Writers Collection
Greek-Lamp Library
Greenjacket Books
Greenleaf Library
Grosset & Dunlap
Guild Books
Guild Books Continental Edition
Halcyon House Illustrated Library
Hampton Classics
Handy Classics
Handy Library Edition
Handy Volume Classics
Happy Hour Library
Harper Perennial Classics
Harper’s Library of Living Thought
Harper’s Modern Classics
Harrap Library
Harrap’s French Classics
Harrap’s Shilling Library
Harrap’s Standard Fiction Library
Hartsdale House
Hearst’s International Library
Heinemann Pocket Editions
Helicon Series
Herbert Strang’s Library / Empire Library
Heritage of India Series
Hero Series
Holborn Library
Holiday Library
Home University Library
Horizon Books
Hour-Glass Library
Hour-Glass Stories
Hurst & Blackett’s 7d. Novels
Hurst’s Poetical Classics
Hutchinson International Authors
Hutchinson University Library
Hutchinson’s 7d. Novels
Hutchinson’s Library of Standard Lives
Hutchinson’s Pocket Library
Illustrated Editions
Illustrated Gift Editions
Illustrated Novel Library
Illustrated Pocket Classics
Imperial Library
In A Nook Booklets
Inner Sanctum Novels
Inspirational Classics
International Fiction Library
International Library
Introductions to English Literature
Jarrolds’ 2/- Novels
Jarrolds’ Jackdaw Library
John O’ London’s Little Books
John O’London’s Library
Journeys and Adventures
Keystone Library
King’s Treasuries of Literature
King’s Classics
Kingfisher Library
Kings’ Way Classics
Knickerbocker Series: A Holland-American Library
Lambskin Library
Landmark Library
Laurel Series
Library of Contemporary Soviet Authors
Library of Living Classics
Library of New Ideas
Library of Unusual Books
Library of World’s Greatest Books
Lippincott’s Popular Library
Literary Guild
Little Books
Little Books on Art
Little Golden Books
Live Books Resurrected
Living Library
Living Thoughts Library
Loeb Classical Library
Longman Library
Longmans’ Pocket Library
Looking Glass Library
Lotus Library
Lyceum Library
Macdonald Illustrated Classics
Macmillan’s 7d. Series
Macmillan’s Pocket Library
Macmillan’s Standard Library
Macmillan’s Three & Sixpenny Novels
Magnolia Library
Makers of Modern Literature
Mandrake Booklets
Mariners Library
Master Musicians
Masterpieces of French Romance
Masterworks Library
Medieval Library
Medieval Towns Series
Mellifont Classics
Melrose’s Pocket Series
Men and Books
Mermaid Books
Mermaid Series
Methuen’s Cheap Novels
Methuen’s Library of Humour
Methuen’s Old English Library
Methuen’s Shilling Library
Methuen’s Shilling Novels
Methuen’s Two Shilling Novels
Modern Amatory Classics
Modern American Writers
Modern Anthologies
Modern Drama Series
Modern Fiction Library
Modern Library
Modern Library (Appleton)
Modern Masterpieces
Modern Readers Series (New Directions)
Modern Readers’ Series
Modern Reprint Library
Modern Standard Authors
Modern Student’s Library
Modern Student’s Library Philosophy Series
Modern Student’s Library French Series
Modern Writers Series
Modernist Series
Moscow Art Theatre Series of Russian Plays
Murray Hill Library
Murray’s Fiction Library
Murray’s Library
Murray’s Shilling Library
Muses’ Library
National Home Library
Nautilus Library
Neely’s Booklet Library
Nelson’s Classics
Nelson’s Continental Library
Nelson’s English Series
Nelson’s Library / Nelson’s Novels
Nelson’s Medieval and Renaissance Library
Neptune Library
New Adelphi Library
New Aldine Library
New Beverly Edition
New Century Library
New Chevron Series
New Classics Series
New Eversley Series
New Hogarth Library
New Library
New Library of French Classics
New Medieval Library
New Pocket Classics
New Poetry
New Poetry Series
New Readers Library
New Science Series
New Universal Library
Nimmo’s Clyde Classics
Nimmo’s Miniatures
Nineteenth-Century Highways and Byways
Nisbets’ Shilling Novels
Nonesuch Library
Novel Library
Novel Library (London Book Co.)
Novels Beautiful
Novels of Distinction
Odd Number Series
Odyssey Library
Olive Classics
Omar Series
Open-Air Library
Open-Air Nature Books
Orchard Books
Order of Merit Series
Ormond Poets
Our Debt to Greece and Rome
Outward Bound Library
Oxford Miscellany
Oxford Standard Authors
Pamphlet Poets
Park Street Library of Diaries, Memoirs and Letters
Paternoster Library
Pelham Library
People’s Books
People’s Library
People’s Library (Hodder & Stoughton)
Percy Press Reprints
Percy Reprints
Petit Trianon Series
Phaidon Pocket Series
Philosophical Library
Phoenix Library
Phoenix Library of Food and Drink
Pilgrim’s Books
Pilot Omnibus
Pocket Books
Pocket Classics (Barse & Hopkins)
Pocket Classics (McKay)
Poet of the Month / Poets of the Year
Poetry and Life Series
Poetry Scotland Series
Popular Edition Series
Premier Series
Progress Soviet Author’s Library
Q Books
Queen’s Treasures Series
Queensway Classics
Queensway Library
Quill Library
Rare Works of Imaginative Fiction
Reader’s Library (Duckworth)
Readers Club
Readers Library
Red Arrow Books
Red Label Reprints
Red Letter Poets
Red Seal Books
Republic of Letters
Rescue Series
Reynard Library
Riccardi Press Books / Booklets
Rinehart Library Classics
Rittenhouse Classics
Riverside Library
Riverside Popular Biographies
Roadmaker Series
Rogues Gallery
Rogues’ Bookshelf
Romance of Reality
Rose and Crown Library
Rosemary Library
Royal Blue Library
Royal Collection
Royal Red Library
Russell Classics
Russian Library
Russian Literature Library
Saint George Series
Saint Giles Library
Saltire Classics
Sampson Low’s Sixpennies
Sanctuary Booklets
Schocken Library
Scholar’s Library
Scribner’s Famous Series
Seagull Library of Mystery and Suspense
Seal Books
Searchlight Books
Self-Study English Series
Series in Literature
Series of the Great Poets
Services Library
Sesame Books
Shakespeare House
Short Stories of To-Day and Yesterday
Silver Library
Soho Library
Songs of Today Series
Spencer Library
St. James’s Library
St. Martin’s Library
St. Paul’s Library
Standard Authors Library
Stanyan Books
Star Dollar Books
Star Editions
Stratford Library
Students’ Library
Studies in English Literature
Sun Dial Library
Swan Library
Tauchnitz Edition
Tavistock Library
Temple Classics
Temple Cyclopædic Primers
Temple Dramatists
The Athenian Drama
The Crowell Poets
The Poetry Bookshelf
The Revel Plays
Theatre Guild Library
Thin Paper Classics
Thinker’s Library
Thistle Library
Tiger Series
Toucan Novels
Tower Books
Travellers’ Library
Triangle Books
Twentieth Century Classics
Twentieth Century Library
Unicorn Books
Universal Library
University Classics (Packard, Hendricks, Farrar Straus)
University Classics (University Publishing Co.)
University Library of Classics
Vanguard Books
Vanguard Library
Vanguard Series
Venus Library
Victorian Library
Victory Books
Vignette Edition
Viking Portable Library
Vintage Books
Wakefield Series
Wallet Library
Walter Edwards Classics
Ward, Lock & Co.’s Sevenpenny Net Novels
Wayfarers’ Library
Week-End Library (Doubleday)
Week-End Library (Lane)
Western Frontier Library
What is Worth While Series
Windmill Library
Wisdom of the East Series
Woburn Books
World Adventure Series
World Books
World Wide Edition
World-Makers & World-Shakers
World’s Classics
World’s Classics Galaxy Edition
World’s Popular Classics
XVIII Century French Romances
Yellow Jacket Series
Zephyr Books
Zodiac Books
Zodiac Press

Medieval Library

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