The International Collectors Library

The International Collectors Library is a classic book set published by Doubleday Book & Music Club beginning in the 1940s. Hundreds of editions were published over its approximately four decades of printing. Very little information is available about this set; hence, this page aims to document what little can be gleaned.

Books in this set were generally printed with faux leather or leatherette covers, complete with gold embellishments, gilt edges, and a satin ribbon. Existing copies can generally be found in used bookstores, eBay, Thriftbooks, and other book-resale websites. Below is a list of authors and their works in the International Collectors Library set, though the list may not be comprehensive.

• A B Guthrie
  • The Big Sky
  • The Way West
• A J Cronin
  • The Keys of the Kingdom
• Aesop
  • Aesop’s Fables
• Agatha Christie,
  • Curtain and the Mysterious Affair at Styles,
  • Hercule Poirot’s Casebook
  • Masterpieces of Murder
  • Miss Marple Meets Murder
  • Sleeping Murder
• Alan Paton Cry,
  • The Beloved Country
• Aldous Huxley
  • Brave New World
• Alex Haley
  • Roots
• Alexandre Dumas
  • Camille
  • Fernande: The Story of a Courtesan
  • The Journal of Madame Giovanni
  • The Man in the Iron Mask
  • The Three Musketeers
  • Twenty Years After
• Alfred Tennyson
  • A Collection of Poems by Alfred Tennyson
• Allan Nevins
  • A Pocket History of the United States
• Anatole Frace
  • The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
• Anne Frank
  • A Diary of a Young Girl
• Annemarie Selinko
  • Desiree
• Anthony Hope
  • The Prisoner of Zenda
• Anthony Trollope
  • Barchester Towers
  • The Eustace Diamonds
• Anton Chekhov
  • Anton Chekhov: Plays and Stories
• Antonia Fraser
  • Mary Queen of Scots
• Arthur Conan Doyle
  • A Treasury of Sherlock Holmes
• Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Tales of Terror and Mystery
• Arthur Sullivan and W S Gilbert
  • The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan
• Ayn Rand
  • Atlas Shrugged, Vols. I and II
  • The Fountainhead
• B Traven
  • The Treasure of Sierra Madre
• Baroness Emmuska Orczy
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel
• Barrie
  • The Little Minister
• Benedict Freedman
  • Mrs. Mike: The Story of Katherine Mary Flannigan
• Benjamin Franklin
  • Poor Richard: The Almanacks for the Years 1733-1758
  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
• Benvenuto Cellini
  • The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
• Bernard Malmud
  • The Natural
• Bernard Shaw
  • Selected Plays
• Betty Smith
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
• Booth Tarkington
  • Alice Adams
• Boris Pasternak
  • Doctor Zhivago
• Bram Stoker
  • Dracula
• Bruce Catton
  • A Stillness at Appomattox
• C S Forester
  • The African Queen
• Carlo Collodi
  • Pinocchio
• Carolly Erikson
  • Bloody Mary
  • Mistress Anne
• Carson McCullers
  • The Member of the Wedding
  • The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
• Charles Dickens
  • A Tale of Two Cities
  • Bleak House
  • Christmas Books
  • David Copperfield
  • Great Expectations
  • Hard Times
  • Nicholas Nickelby
  • Oliver Twist
  • The Old Curiosity Shop
  • The Pickwick Papers
• Charles Nordhoff
  • Mutiny on the Bounty
• Charlotte Bronte
  • Jane Eyre
• Christopher Ricks
  • The Brownings: Letters and Poetry
• Clarence Day
  • Life with Father and Other Writings
• Colette
  • The Collette Omnibus
• Colleen McCullough
  • The Thorn Birds
• D H Lawrence
  • Lady Chatterley’s Lover
  • Women in Love
• Daniel Defoe
  • Moll Flanders
  • Robinson Crusoe
• Dante Aligheri
  • The Divine Comedy
• Daphne du Maurier
  • Echoes From the Macabre
• Daphne du Maurier
  • Frenchman’s Creek
  • Jamaica Inn
  • My Cousin Rachel
  • Rebecca
  • The King’s General
• Dashiell Hammett
  • The Novels of Dashiell Hammett
• Edgar Allan Poe
  • Complete Stories of Edgar Allan Poe
• Edith Wharton
  • The Edith Wharton Omnibus
  • The House of Mirth
• Edna Ferber
  • Cimarron
  • Show Boat
  • So Big
• Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Collected Lyrics of Edna St. Vincent Millay
• Edward Gibbon
  • The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• Edward Lytton
  • The Last Days of Pompeii
• Edwin O’Connor
  • All in the Family
  • The Edge of Sadness
  • The Last Hurrah
• Elizabeth Goudge
  • Green Dolphin Street
• Elizabeth Longford
  • Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed
• Elliott Coleman
  • Poems of Byron, Keats, and Shelly
• Elspeth Joscelin Grant Huxley
  • The Flame Trees of Thika
  • The Mottled Lizard
• Emily Bronte
  • Wuthering Heights
• Emily Dickinson
  • Selected Poems and Letters of Emily Dickinson
• Erich Maria Remarque
  • All Quiet on the Western Front
• Erich Segal
  • Love Story
• Ernest Hemingway
  • A Farewell to Arms
  • For Whom the Bell Tolls
• Erskine Caldwell
  • Tobacco Road
• Ethel Franklin Betts
  • The Complete Mother Goose
• Eugene O’Neill
  • Selected Plays of Eugene O’Neill
• Eve Curie
  • Madame Curie: A Biography
• Evelyn Waugh
  • Decline and Fall
  • The Loved One, an Anglo-American Tragedy
• F Scott Fitzgerald
  • Tender is the Night
  • The Great Gatsby
  • The Last Tycoon
• Felix Salten
  • Bambi
• Ford Madox
  • Ford The Good Soldier
• Francis Parkman
  • The Oregon Trail
• Frank Gilbreth
  • Cheaper By the Dozen
• Franz Kafka
  • The Castle
  • The Trial
• Fulton Oursler
  • The Greatest Story Ever Told
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • Crime and Punishment
  • The Brothers Karamazov
  • Three Short Novels
• Geoffery Chaucer
  • Canterbury Tales
• George Eliot
  • Adam Bede
  • Silas Marner
  • The Mill on the Floss
• Gilbreth Carey
  • Belles On Their Toes
• Giovanni Boccaccio
  • The Decmaneron of Giovanni Boccaccio
• Grace Metalious
  • Peyton Place
• Graham Greene
  • The Portable Graham Greene
• Gustave Flaubert
  • Madame Bovary
  • The Sentimental Education
• Guy de Maupassant
  • Short Stories of De Maupassant
• H G Wells
  • The Outline of History
  • Three More Novels of the Future
• H G Wells and Isaac Asimov
  • Three Novels of the Future
• H Rider Haggard
  • King Solomon’s Mines
• Hans Christian Anderson
  • A Treasury of Hans Christian Anderson
• Harold Lamb
  • Alexander of Macedon
  • Charlemagne
  • Genghis Khan: The Emperor of All Men
  • Suleiman the Magnificent
  • The Crusades
• Harper Lee
  • To Kill a Mockingbird
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin
• Helen Keller
  • The Story of My Life
• Henrik Ibsen
  • Selected Plays of Henrik Ibsen
• Henry David Thoreau
  • Walden and Other Writings
• Henry Fielding
  • The History of Tom Jones
• Henry James
  • The Bostonians
  • The Spoils of Poynton
• Henry Miller
  • Tropic of Cancer
  • Tropic of Capricorn
• Henryk Sienkiewicz
  • Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero
• Herman Melville
  • Moby Dick
• Herman Wouk
  • Marjorie Mourningstar
  • The Caine Mutiny
• Hermann Hesse
  • Siddharta
  • Steppenwolf
• Herodotus
  • The History of Herodotus
• Hervey Allen
• Anthony Adverse, Vols. I and II
• Homer
  • The Illiad
  • The Odyssey
• Honore de Balzac
  • Pere Goriot
• Howard Pyle
  • The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood of the Great Renown in Nottinghamshire
• Ian Fleming
  • Goldfinger
• Irving Stone
  • Jack London, Sailor on Horseback
  • Lust For Life
  • The Agony and the Ecstasy
• Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
  • Fathers and Sons
• Jack London
  • The Call of the Wild
  • Sea-Wolf
• Jacob and Karl Wilhelm Grimm
  • Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales
• James Boswell
  • The Life of Samuel Johnson
• James Cain
  • Three Novels
• James Clavell
  • King Rat
  • Noble House
  • Shogun: A Novel of Japan, Vols. I and II
• James Farrell
  • Studs Lonigan
• James Fenimore Cooper
  • The Deerslayer
  • The Last of the Mohicans
  • The Pathfinder
• James Herriot
  • All Creatures Great and Small
  • All Things Bright and Beautiful
• James Hilton
  • Lost Horizon
• James Jones
  • From Here to Eternity
• James Joyce
  • Dubliners
• James Michener
• Poland
  • Tales of the South Pacific
  • The Covenant, Vols. I and II
• James Truslow Adams
  • The Epic of America
• Jan Struthers
  • Mrs. Miniver
• Jane Austen
  • Emma
  • Pride and Prejudice
  • Sense and Sensibility
• Jean Garrigue
  • Love Poems
  • Love’s Aspects: The World’s Great Love Poems
• Jessamyn West
  • The Friendly Persuasion
• Jim Bishop
  • The Day Christ Died
• Joan Haslip
  • Catherine the Great
• Joanna Cole and Jill Karla Schwarz
  • Best-Loved Folktales of the World
• John Bunyan
  • The Pilgram’s Progress
• John Dos Passos
  • Manhattan Transfer
• John F. Kennedy
  • Profiles in Courage
• John Fowles
  • The French Lieutenant’s Woman
• John Galsworthy
  • A Modern Comedy
  • End of the Chapter
  • The Forsyte Saga
• John Hunt
  • The Conquest of Everest
• John Knowles
  • A Separate Peace
• John Marquand
  • The Late George Apley
• John Milton
  • Paradise Lost
• John Steinbeck
  • East of Eden
  • The Grapes of Wrath
  • The Short Novels of John Steinbeck
• John Toland
  • Adolph Hitler, Vols. I and II
• Jonathan Swift
  • Gulliver’s Travels
• Joseph Conrad
  • Lord Jim
  • Nostromo
  • Victory
• Joseph Heller
  • Catch-22
• Joseph Lash
  • Eleanor and Franklin
• Joy Adamson
  • Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds
• Jules Verne
  • A Journey to the Center of the Earth
  • Around the World in Eight Days
  • From the Earth to the Moon
  • The Mysterious Island
  • Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
• Kahlil Gibran
  • A Treasury of Kahlil Gibran
• Katherine Anne Porter
  • Ship of Fools
• Kathleen Winsor
  • Forever Amber
• Kathryn Hume
  • The Nun’s Story
• Kemp Battle
  • Great American Folklore: Legends, Tales, Ballads, and Superstitions From All Across America
• Kenneth Grahame
  • The Wind in the Willows
• Kenneth Lewis Roberts
  • Arundel
  • Lydia Bailey
  • Northwest Passage
  • Rabble in Arms
• Kurt Vonnegut
  • Breakfast of Champions
  • Slaughterhouse-Five
• L Frank Baum
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
• Larry McMurtry
  • The Last Picture Show
• Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Little House in the Big Woods
• Laurence Sterne
  • A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
• Lee Wallace
  • Ben Hur
• Leo Tolstoy
  • Anna Karenina
  • War and Peace
• Leon Uris
  • Exodus
• Lewis Carroll
  • Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
• Lillian Hellman
  • The Collected Plays
• Lloyd Douglas
  • The Robe
• Lord Byron
  • Don Juan
• Louis Auchincloss
  • The Rector of Justin
  • Watchfires
• Louisa May Alcott
  • A Double Life
  • Eight Cousins
  • Jo’s Boys, and How They Turned Out
  • Little Men
  • Little Women
• Lucy Maud Montgomery
  • Anne of Green Gables
• Marcel Proust
  • Swann’s Way
• Marco Polo
  • The Travels of Marco Polo
• Marcus Aurelius
  • Meditations
• Margaret Landon
  • Anna and the King of Siam
• Margaret Mead
  • Coming of Age in Samoa
• Margret Michell
  • Gone With the Wind
• Maria Augusta Trapp
  • The Story of the Trapp Family Singers
• Mario Puzo
  • The Godfather
• Marion Zimmer Bradley
  • The Mists of Avalon
• Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
  • The Yearling
• Mark Twain
  • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
  • The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain
• Marvin Kaye and Saralee Kaye
  • Ghosts: A Treasury of Chilling Tales Old and New
• Mary Mapes Dodge
  • Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates
• Mary McCarthy
  • The Group
• Mary O’Hara
  • My Friend Flicka
• Maurice Herzog
  • Annapurna
• Michel de Montaigne
  • Selected Essays of Michel de Montaigne
• Miguel de Cervantes Saaverdra
  • Don Quixote
• Mika Waltari
  • The Egyptian
• Nancy Sullivan
  • The Treasury of American Poetry
  • The Treasury of American Short Stories
  • The Treasury of English Short Stories
• Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • The House of Seven Gables
  • The Scarlett Letter
• Nevil Shute
  • On the Beach
• Niccolo Machiavelli
  • The Prince
  • The Discourses
• O Henry
  • Tales of O. Henry
• Omar Khayyam
  • Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
• Oscar Wilde
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray
  • The Plays of Oscar Wilde
• Owen Wister
  • The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains
• Pearl S Buck
  • Imperial Woman: A Novel
  • The Good Earth
• Petronius Arbiter
  • The Satyricon
• Philip Roth
  • Portnoy’s Complaint
• Plato
  • The Republic and Other Works of Plato
• Plutarch
  • Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
• Prosper Merimee
  • Carmen
• R D Blackmoore
  • Lorna Doone
• Rafael Sabatini
  • Scaramouche
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Essays and Journals
• Richard Adams
  • Watership Down
• Richard Evelyn Byrd
  • Alone
• Richard Francis Burton
  • Selections From the The Arabian Nights
• Richard Henry Dana
  • Two Years Before the Mast
• Richard Llewellyn
  • How Green Was My Valley
• Robert Graves
  • I, Claudius
• Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Treasure Island
• Robert Massie
  • Nicholas and Alexandra
• Robert Nathan
  • Portrait of Jennie
• Robert Penn Warren
  • All the King’s Men
• Rudyard Kipling
  • Captain Courageous
  • Just So Stories
  • Kim
  • Rudyard Kipling’s Verse
  • The Jungle Books
• Saint Augustine of Hippo
  • The Confessions of St. Augustine
• Saki
  • The Complete Works of Saki
• Samuel Butler
  • The Way of All Flesh
• Saul Bellow
  • Henderson, the Rain King
  • Herzog
  • The Adventures of Augie March
• Sherwood Anderson
  • Winesburg, Ohio
• Sholom Aleichem
  • The Best of Sholom Aleichem
• Sinclair Lewis
  • Arrowsmith
  • Main Street
• Stendhal
  • The Red and the Black
• Steven Crane
  • The Red Badge of Courage
• Steven Vincent Benet
  • John Brown’s Body
• Stewart Edward White
  • The Long Rifle
• Sylvia Plath
  • The Bell Jar
• T E Lawrence
  • Seven Pillars of Wisdom
• T H White
  • The Once and Future King
• Taylor Caldwell
  • Dear and Glorious Physician
• Taylor Caldwell
  • Great Lion of God
• Tennessee Williams
  • Eight Plays
• Theodore Dreiser
  • Sister Carrie
• Thomas Bulfinch
  • Bulfinch’s Mythology
  • The Age of Fable
• Thomas Costain
  • The Black Rose
  • The Conquering Family
  • The Magnificent Century
  • The Silver Chalice
  • The Three Edwards
• Thomas Hardy
  • Far From the Madding Crowd
  • Jude the Obscure
  • Tess of the d’Urbervilles
  • The Return of the Native
• Thomas Hughes
  • Tom Brown’s School Days
• Thomas Mann
  • The Magic Mountain
• Thomas Wolfe
  • Of Time and the River
• Thor Heyerdahl
  • Aku-Aku: the Secret of Easter Island
  • Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft
• Truman Capote
  • In Cold Blood
• Upton Sinclair
  • The Jungle
• Vicki Baum
  • Grand Hotel
• Victor Hugo
  • Les Miserables
• Victor Hugo
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame
• Virginia Woolf
  • Mrs. Dalloway
• Vladimir Nobokov
  • Lolita
• W H Hudson
  • Green Mansions
• W Somerset Maugham
  • Of Human Bondage
  • The Moon and Sixpence
  • The Razor’s Edge
  • The Summing Up
• Walt Whitman
  • Leaves of Grass
• Walter Scott
  • Ivanhoe
  • Kenilworth
  • The Talisman
• Walter Van Tilburg Clark
  • The Ox-Bow Incident
• Washington Irving
  • The Complete Tales of Washington Irving
• Wilkie Collins
  • The Moonstone
• Willa Cather
  • My Antonia
• William Faulkner
  • As I Lay Dying
  • Light in August
  • The Sound and the Fury
• William Makepeace Thackeray
  • The History of Henry Esmond
  • The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.
  • Vanity Fair
• William Prescott
  • Conquest of Mexico
• William Shakespeare
  • Histories and Poems
  • The Comedies of William Shakespeare
  • The Love Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare
  • The Tragedies of William Shakespeare
• William Shirer
  • The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
• William Wordsworth
  • Poems of Wordsworth and Coleridge

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