University of Virginia Library

"THE TRAGEDY OF THE BOOK INDUSTRY"? BOOKSTORES AND
BOOK DISTRIBUTION IN THE UNITED STATES TO 1950

by
Michael Winship

This statement is taken from O. H. Cheney's 1931 Economic Survey of the Book
Industry. Cheney, a banker who had been commissioned by the National
Association of Book Publishers to survey the state of the book industry, continues
in the same vein: "Between these points [publisher and book buyer] are so many
gaps, so many confusions, so much utter ignorance of what is being done that
unless these gaps are filled and unless every branch of the industry learns to know
exactly what it is doing, the industry, as it is today, is threatened with destruc-
tion." All in all, he concludes, "mourning becomes the book industry."[1]

Dire words indeed! But I would echo Cheney by suggesting that it is the
study of book distribution that may well be the "tragedy" of American book
history—a lively field over the past decades, as literary and historical scholars
came to recognize that the dual role of books as both commodities and carriers
of culture makes them important to any understanding of our literature, culture,
economy, and society. The work of book historians has firmly established the
importance of books in shaping American culture and society, but it has almost
completely focused on the role of authors, publishers, and readers, while ignor-
ing the fundamental question of just how texts and books found their way from
creator to market. Indeed, book historians and literary critics appear to have as-
sumed that the books written by authors and issued by publishers reached their
readers seamlessly and without mediation; they have paid next to no attention
to the mechanisms of book distribution or to how these mechanisms determined
the availability of books and thus the kind of reading that the American public
engaged in. As a result, virtually every argument that historians of the American
book have made over the past decades—about authorship, publishing, audi-
ences, reader response, and innumerable other topics—must remain provisional.
Each of these arguments relies on untested assumptions about the connections
between authors, publishers, and readers, for these connections depend upon the
mechanisms of distribution.

This failure of book historians is particularly ironic, for the few scholars who
have considered the question of book distribution in the United States have often
taken the Cheney Report as their source, without (it seems) considering the im-
port that Cheney's conclusions might hold for their own work. I can only imagine
that the Report's presentation—as a banker, Cheney filled his work with tables,
graphs, and charts—has lent it an air of authority, while the implications of its
data and the economic moment in which it was prepared have been ignored. Was
Cheney correct in his conclusions? Was book distribution truly the "tragedy" of
the American book industry? If so, how can we make sense of the fact that book
distribution has been so little studied?

These are difficult questions to answer definitively, but unless they are an-
swered our understanding of a central feature of American book history will
remain incomplete and inadequate. It is true that the primary source materials
for the study of American book distribution are few and widely scattered, and
that, where they do survive, their value is often overlooked or misunderstood; but
one important source is the many national directories of American bookstores
that were published for the use of the book trade. These directories document
the extent of the national network of dedicated retail outlets for books, and in
many cases contain not only names and addresses, but also an indication of the
size of bookstores' business or their creditworthiness—information that would
have been of great use to publishers in filling orders from distant places. The
information that they contain also allows us to form a better understanding of
the American book distribution system.

Far more of these directories were produced than is generally recognized, in
part because their survival is uncommon: many exist today in only several cop-
ies, and others have disappeared completely. Between 1850 and the turn of the
century, at least thirty-two directories of American bookstores were proposed or
published, supplemented by four that were limited to dealers in antiquarian or
second-hand books. By 1950, an additional thirty directories of general booksell-
ers had appeared, plus five for dealers in antiquarian or second-hand books. As
far as I can tell, these directories have never been systematically examined or
analyzed either by American book historians or by anyone else.

The earliest of these bookstore directories remains something of a mystery, as
no copy is known to survive. On 1 September 1854, D. Hannegan of New York
issued a call for subscriptions for his "private edition" of a Classified Directory of the
Booksellers, Stationers, Cheap Publication Sellers of the United States, West Indies, Brit-
ish, and South America. Limited to fifty copies at a price of $35, this directory was
promised to be "late, complete, and reliable" and was to be "printed in quarto
form, on $16.00 paper [the cost per ream], long-primer type, with alternate blank
pages for additions, alterations, remarks, &c., and bound in sheep, with spring
backs." Hannegan, who was also the publisher of a short-lived trade periodical
The Booksellers' Trade List and Publishers' Register, may never have completed and
issued this directory, though this seems unlikely: in his call for subscriptions he
claims that "twenty-three are already taken up."[2]

The earliest surviving bookstore directory shares many characteristics with
Hannegan's pioneering effort: a work that was available by subscription at a high
price in limited numbers. It is O. A. Roorbach's List of Booksellers in the United
States and the Canadas, published in New York City in March, 1859. Printed on
128 pages, this directory lists 3,126 sellers of books in some 1,100 towns, arranged
alphabetically from Abbeville, NC (one general store, stocking only schoolbooks
and serving a population of 400), to Zanesville, OH (four booksellers serving a
population of 12,000). Only two copies can be located today.

Orville A. Roorbach is chiefly remembered, if at all, for a different pioneer-
ing work—his Bibliotheca Americana. A Catalogue of American Publications, Including
Reprints and Original Works, from 1820 … Inclusive—that was first issued exactly
ten years earlier, March 1849.[3] Born at Red Hook Landing on the Hudson River
on 20 January 1803, Roorbach entered the book trade in 1817 as an employee
of Everett Duyckinck, one of New York's leading booksellers at the time, whom
he effectively succeeded in 1825 after purchasing a large portion of the stock. In
1830, Roorbach removed to Charleston, SC, where he sold books "At the Sign
of the Red Lion," but returned to New York City in about 1848 to take charge
of the wholesale department of Wiley & Putnam. In 1852, he set up on his own
in New York as jobber and publisher, but failed in 1857, as did many other book
trade firms during the panic that followed the tightening of credit that year. In
July 1858, Roorbach began publication of the twice monthly Booksellers' Medium
and Publishers' Advertiser, a trade journal, and completed three volumes before his
death in June 1861.[4]

The Booksellers' Medium prints the earliest notice of Roorbach's directory of
booksellers that I have discovered. The issue for 1 January 1859 contains an an-
nouncement and call for subscriptions to the work, which was to be published in
only 100 copies at the pre-publication price of $25. The announcement describes
the work as follows:

This announcement, and the high cost and limited number of Roorbach's pro-
posed publication, may have inspired The American Publishers' Circular and Literary
Gazette, a rival trade journal published by the New York Book-Publishers' Asso-
ciation, to announce a competing directory of American booksellers. The issue
of 5 February 1859 printed the following "Notice to Booksellers":
Roorbach responded in the 15 February issue of the Booksellers' Medium. After
reprinting the notice, he wishes the American Publishers' Circular "God-Speed," but
then continues to suggest that a free list is worth exactly what it costs, as publish-
ers are unlikely to give their customer information away. He points out that the
number of subscribers to the Circular was only 700, whereas the circulation of the
Booksellers' Medium was 4,700, and then concludes:
A list of twenty-three subscribers to the work, located in Philadelphia, Boston,
New York, Springfield MA, and Cincinnati, follows.

Roorbach's list, which was available in March or early April, was announced
as "now ready" in the Booksellers' Medium of 15 April at the increased price of $40:
"Only one hundred copies printed, and less than thirty copies remain on hand,
unsold."[8] But the reception of the list was apparently not completely positive, for
in the issue of 15 June Roorbach printed a long note "TO THE SUBSCRIBERS
TO ROORBACH'S LIST OF BOOKSELLERS." It gives interesting details on
the nature of the list:

No copy of a supplement of corrigenda and addenda seems to survive, though a
copy at Yale, originally owned by G. & C. Merriam, does have a brief inserted
errata slip that gives missing information on the population for several towns
that had been listed.

As time passed, sales must have been slow: on 1 September Roorbach was
again advertising the work at its original subscription price of $25, stating that
"less than 20 copies remain on hand," and the following 1 May an advertisement
for the list states that there were still "about twenty copies remaining."[10] In the
meanwhile, the American Publishers' Circular had not been idle, and in the issue of
6 August 1859 it published a two-page "List of Booksellers in the New England
States." This was the first of four such lists: those for the "Middle States," "South-
ern States," and "Western States" followed on 19 Sept. 1859, 24 March 1860,
and 31 March 1860, respectively. These lists are each designated as "Prepared
Expressly for the American Book Circular" and as entered for copyright in the
name of that journal's editor, Charles B. Rode.

A note in the issue of the Circular with the initial installment explains that
the list had been "prepared with no little labor and expense" but that it was
"believed to be more accurate than any similar list in the country." The note
continues: "In order, however, that it may be made perfect, we shall keep it
standing in type for the next two weeks, so as to make any corrections which
may be needed, and shall be obliged to whoever will inform us of an errors
either of omission or commission." The note concludes by acknowledging "the

various correspondents who have revised our proof sheets, and to offer our es-
pecial thanks to MESSRS. ADAMS, SAMPSON & Co., of Boston, and WIL-
LIAM H. BOYD, Esq., of New York, for their kind permission to make use of
the valuable Directories published by them, from which we have derived great
assistance."[11]

A note printed in the issue of the Circular that followed the final installment
elaborates:

As he had earlier, Roorbach reprinted extracts from this final notice in the Book-
sellers' Medium. He remained skeptical, however, and comments facetiously that
the lack of discrimination confessed by the Circular "accounts for Illinois having
about as many booksellers as all the New England States together, excepting
Massachusetts." Nevertheless, he promises his subscribers that "In accordance
with our rule of placing 'The MEDIUM' in every channel where advertisers
are likely to find results, our paper is sent in detachments to every name on this
'most perfect list,' not included on our own; we, of course, anticipate the receipt
of something less than a peck of those 'yellow missives' endorsed 'free, P. O. B.'
(Post Office business,) 'not taken out.'"[13]

This dispute does raise, however, the important question of just what kind of
retail establishments these two lists were documenting. Roorbach's list provides a
key that is suggestive: publishers, booksellers, periodical dealers, dealers in drugs
and books, stationers, general dealers who carry school books, and a consider-
able number that are classified as dealers who handle books "to what degree
un-reported." Explaining this final category, he adds that many "are doubtless,
regular Booksellers, yet, it was not considered advisable to assume anything,"
even if "The locality and population of the Towns, will enable the intelligent
Bookseller, to make a fair guess, as to probabilities."[14]

FIGURE 1. The retail book department of J. B. Lippincott Co. of Philadelphia in the early
1890s, from "A Brief History of a Great Book House," p. 13, in J. B. Lippincott Company's
Classified Catalogue of Publications and Importations (1893), *99SC-2, box 148, Houghton Library,
Harvard University.

What is noteworthy, however, is the large number of retail outlets that were
claimed to have made books and stationery their exclusive business by 1859,
about 2,100 according to Roorbach's original announcement for his publication.
Just what these dedicated, independent retail bookstores were like—which and
how many books they stocked and how they were arranged and presented—is
difficult to know exactly, though the few early depictions of the interior of Ameri-
can bookstores are suggestive.[15] Many carried a variety of goods in addition to
books and stationery, including games, fancy goods, and such things as razors
or musical instruments, even as they identified themselves chiefly as bookstores.
With the exception of popular or new books laid out on tables, the book stock
itself was chiefly inaccessible to customers, commonly shelved by publisher rather
than subject. Thus, customers must have relied on clerks not only for advice, but
also for access to most books (perhaps much in the way that we do today when
shopping for shoes), though window displays and posted advertising "shewbills"
would have drawn attention to new publications.

In rural areas outside cities and towns, where the population could not sup-
port such dedicated bookstores, a few books, of course, would have been available

in country general stores. Even in cities and towns, many must have depended on
news agents, friends, and, especially as the century progressed, libraries and de-
partment stores for their reading material. Some book buyers must have ordered
directly from publishers, receiving their purchases by mail, and others may have
employed agents in the major publishing centers to assist in their book purchases.
But I believe that dedicated, independent bookstores, exactly of the kind that
the directories in this checklist document, had by 1850 become the center of the
American national trade book distribution system.

The early rise of a national book distribution system in the United States
depending on bookstores, as suggested by these first directories, is something
of a surprise, for by the 1850s the publishing industry was coincidentally be-
coming increasingly concentrated in three major east coast cities—New York,
Philadelphia, and Boston—just as the United States became more extensive,
growing to stretch across the entire North American continent. The rise of the
dedicated, independent bookstore seems to have been an important development
of the antebellum decades, however, for James Green assures me that he has yet
to find anything similar in the first decades of the nineteenth century. Into the
1820s, every bookseller whose trade appears to be confined to retailing books
and stationery turns out, on closer examination, also to be involved in printing,
publishing, wholesaling, or book binding—at least occasionally—or else the
bookseller served as agent for an urban publisher. Would it not have made more
sense for there to have risen an expanding network of interdependent, regional
markets for books, supporting publishers and retailers, that continued the pattern
that was characteristic of the early decades of the nineteenth century? To some
extent, this earlier system did persist—certainly this is true of newspapers, many
of which, even today, are regional or local in nature—but what is striking is that
the book industry, especially that concerned with what have come to be termed
"trade books," became truly national in character.

The contradiction between the concentration of the book publication and
production industry in the east and the expansion of the market for books across
the continent is a defining characteristic of the modern American book trade
and is surely the primary cause of what Cheney refers to as the "tragedy" of
the book industry. In order to function effectively, this national book distribu-
tion system needed to develop means for managing the transportation of books
to buyers from the centers of publication, as well as for the efficient exchange
of information and transfer of credit. Just how that happened is something that
historians of the American book have not yet adequately addressed, but these
directories do suggest that by the 1850s the American book trade was, at very
least, beginning to do so.

So what then are we to make of Cheney's 1931 characterization of American
book distribution system as a tragedy, in danger of bringing the book industry
to the brink of extinction? Cheney's pessimism is perhaps understandable, given
that he was writing at the beginning of the Great Depression of the 1930s, yet
the book industry survived, carrying on in much the same way as it had for
many years. Elsewhere in his study, Cheney is more qualified, if less colorful.
On the one hand, despite his many recommendations for improvement, Cheney
found himself unable to offer "any plan for transforming the book industry into

'big business' overnight," and he admits that "no single major solution is pos-
sible."[16] His recommendations suggest not a broad-based reorganization of the
book industry, but rather means by which the current book distribution system
might be changed to effect greater efficiency and profit. On the other hand, he
explains that "in the conditions pictured in this report, the book industry is like
every other American industry" and that "No industry in the country is in a
position to gloat over the book industry."[17] Taking the long view—from 1850 to
1950, say—and considering the considerable growth in the American economy
over that period, it does not seem reasonable to view American industry—or the
book industry, for that matter—in such an unfavorable light. Even if they were
broken, they both managed to function remarkably well over the long term.

Of course, Cheney's analysis does raise the imponderable question of just
what would have been a more successful book distribution system? Cheney him-
self was unable to offer a real alternative, although the history of the book in
America offers several. Most important are the various subscription schemes,
from the use of door-to-door canvassers that flourished in the years after the
Civil War to the many book clubs that use the mails for distribution and that first
emerged in the 1920s. These have been a persistent feature of the American book
trade from colonial times, and while they have certainly supplemented the na-
tional trade book distribution system that depended on dedicated, independent
retail bookstores, they have never succeeded in supplanting it.

But if the American book distribution system came to depend on dedicated,
independent retail bookstores, how successful were these stores in reaching the
extensive market for books in the United States? An answer to this question will
only emerge from a full analysis of the directories of bookstores listed here. As
far as I know, there were no similar directories that document the presence of,
say, dedicated shoe stores throughout the United States before 1950, but the
thought that there might be raises a useful comparison. No doubt there were
many villages and small towns that lacked a single shoe store, but this situation
can scarcely suggest that most rural Americans have gone unshod all these years.
Of course, many Americans may have chosen not to wear shoes, either by choice
or from lack of means, but I doubt that most could not have done so if they had
wished. I suspect that the same is true of books: the distribution system for books
may not have been completely efficient, as Cheney noted, but it was probably
effective. Those who wished to read undoubtedly found ways to find the books
that they wanted.

As evidence, perhaps exceptional but still suggestive, I offer Swante Palm, a
Swedish immigrant and resident of Austin, Texas, where he moved in 1850 and
served as Swedish vice-consul from 1866 until his death in 1899.[18] Palm was an
inveterate and enthusiastic book collector, and by the 1850s he was regularly
adding books that had been recently published in New York and other eastern
publishing centers to his library. I have been unable to discover the details how he

managed to do this—I cannot imagine that Texas bank notes had much currency
in Manhattan—but the evidence that he did so successfully are today everywhere
in the stacks of the libraries at the University of Texas: in 1897 Palm donated the
greater part of his library of about 12,000 volumes to the University, increasing
the number of volumes in the University's library by over sixty percent. Among
many other works, Palm's donation included, for example, several by Walt Whit-
man: the privately printed second issue of his 1865 collection of Civil War poems
Drum-Taps, the 1882 first edition of Specimen Days, and a late reprint of the 1860
third edition of Leaves of Grass.

Bookstore directories show that by 1859 in Austin, where the population
was then a mere 4,500, Palm would have had the choice of two bookstores to
patronize, though I suspect that his appetite for books would have required him
to establish supplemental means for acquiring books for his collection. Just over
a quarter of a century later, in 1886, the population of Austin had quadrupled
to 18,000, and there were five bookstores, the largest of which had an estimated
capital investment of $20,000 to $30,000. This situation continued into the twen-
tieth century: in 1907, with a population of 22,258, Austin was again listed with
five bookstores, the largest of which did a business of over $25,000 per annum.
By 1928, the population had grown to 38,200, and the number of bookstores was
seven, not counting the book department in Scarborough's department store on
Congress Avenue. The evidence in these directories suggests that the figures for
Austin are typical of many other cities and towns across the nation.

Today, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the United States does
seem to be undergoing a reorganization of our book distribution system, driven
by improved means, chiefly digital, of information and inventory control and
an influx of corporate capital. The result has been the increasing dominance of
chain bookstores located in malls, free-standing corporate "super stores," and
especially internet book distributors like Amazon.com. Our reaction to these
changes has been ambivalent, and we are all familiar with the many nostalgic
laments over the loss of many of our independent retail bookstores. But this am-
bivalence is not new: in 1952 the American Booksellers Association distributed a
booklet by Adolph Kroch entitled Bookstores Can Be Saved: 14 Proposals Answering
the Question, "What Is Wrong with the Bookstores." [19] Perhaps we should, taking our
cue from Cheney, withhold judgment, for I suspect that today we all benefit from
greater access to the products of the American book industry than ever before.
But I also believe that the directories of booksellers listed here provide notable
evidence that the earlier trade book distribution system, established in the de-
cades before the Civil War and centered on bookstores, functioned effectively for
over one hundred fifty years.

Directories of American Bookstores to 1950

This checklist includes all the national directories of bookstores in the United
States and Canada to 1950 that I have discovered. My goal has been to make a

record of the reference tools that were prepared or proposed for the use of the
American book trades and that provided publishing and jobbing firms—which
were increasingly becoming concentrated in a few, mostly east coast, cities—a
means of gauging the nature of the market for their books. Thus, I have omit-
ted the many city directories published during the period that were not specifi-
cally aimed at the book trades, though these will in many cases provide useful
information on the local or regional market for books. Also omitted is the set
of pre-printed, perforated, and gummed mailing labels of American bookstores
that was prepared for sale by the Business Address Co. of New York in 1883
and, presumably, in other years.[20] Reluctantly, I have decided not to include the
series called The Typo Credit Book of the Paper, Book, Stationery, Printing, Publishing
and Kindred Trade in the United States and Canada, published by the Typo Mercantile
Agency. This firm, incorporated in 1896 and continuing in business until at least
the 1940s, primarily provided credit information on the book trades, including
bookstores, and the volumes it published usefully serve as a complement to the
directories listed here.[21]

Two brief, early lists of American booksellers deserve special mention: "List
of Booksellers in the Principal Cities and Towns in U. S.," Booksellers' Advertiser
1 (December 1834): 95, and "List of Publishers and Booksellers, in the Different
States, Cities and Towns, as Far as Returned to the Compiler, July, 1848" in
Alexander V. Blake, Supplement to the American Bookseller's Complete Reference Trade
List (Claremont, NH: Claremont Manufacturing Co., 1848), p. [231]. Examina-
tion of these lists shows that, in general, they use the term booksellers in its earlier
sense that does not clearly distinguish it from those who in the nineteenth century
were increasingly coming to be known as publishers, and for this reason I have
decided to record the existence of these lists here but have not included them in
the checklist.

Entries in the checklist, numbered sequentially, are grouped by publisher
or compiler, with groups arranged chronologically by the earliest entry in each.
The main section of the checklist contains general directories of bookstores in
the United States and Canada and is followed by a second section of directories
of bookstores that dealt specifically in second-hand or antiquarian books. The
bookstores listed in the directories in the first section would have usually stocked
new publications, but it is probable that many also carried used or old books in
addition to stationery and other goods. Tables 1 and 2 provide an overview and
index to the checklist.

The entries themselves should be self-explanatory. Title-page transcriptions
are regularized, but with the first letter of each word given in the case, upper or
lower, of the original. Omissions are indicated by marks of ellipses; interpolations
are enclosed within full-size square brackets, while square brackets that appear
on the original title page are transcribed using a smaller square bracket. In the
pagination statement, full detail is given for the preliminary and final pages,

but only the first and final page numbers are reported for the main sequence of
the text. One unusual feature of some of these directories is that the endpapers
are included in the printed pagination, as indicated, and in such cases, no page
number has been inferred for the first and final pages of the pastedown end leaves
(the recto of the front and verso of the rear pastedown)—these are not visible
and presumably blank.

The location of copies is indicated by standard NUC symbols, with the ad-
dition of "MBW" for copies in my personal collection. In addition, the following
abbreviations have been used:

                       

ALG	American Literary Gazette and Publishers' Circular (1863–1872)
AmCat	The American Catalogue (1880–1911)
BM	Booksellers' Medium and Publisher's Advertiser (1858–1861)
CBI	Annual volumes of the Cumulative Book Index (1908–)
Growoll	A. Growoll, Book-Trade Bibliography in the United States in the XIXth Century (1898)
Kelly	James Kelly, The American Catalogue of Books, (Original and Reprints,) Published in the United States … (1866–1871)
Lehmann-Haupt	Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt et al., The Book in America, 2nd ed. (1951)
NUC	The National Union Catalog: Pre-1956 Imprints (1968–1981)
OCLC	Bibliographical catalog of the Online Computer Library Center, searchable on-line via WorldCat
PW	The Publishers' Weekly (1873–)
Sabin	Joseph Sabin et al., Bibliotheca Americana: A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present Time (1868–1936)
Ulrich & Küp	Carolyn F. Ulrich & Karl Küp, Books and Printing: A Selected List of Periodicals, 1800–1942 (1943)

The preparation of this checklist would have been impossible without the
help of the many patient librarians who have generously and professionally an-
swered my numerous queries and, in many cases, provided photocopies from
directories in their collections: Carol Armbruster and Marilyn K. Parr at DLC,
Autumn L. Mather at ICN, Karen S. Cook at KU, Matthew A. Harris at KyU,
Susan G. Glover at MB, Rachel Jirka and John H. Lannon at MBAt, Roger E.
Stoddard at MH, Jennifer B. Lee at NNC, Julie A. Castelluzzo at NNCoo,
J. Fernando Peña at NNGr, James N. Green at PPL, and Anne Johnson at ViW.
The interlibrary services staff at TxU has been tireless in fulfilling my requests for
loans, and I am grateful to Amy L. Root, who took time from her own research to
examine a copy of Roorbach's Directory (1859) at CtY. All errors and omissions in
the checklist remain mine, of course, and I welcome corrections and additions.

I. General Bookstores

D. Hannegan, Office of the Booksellers' Trade List (New York), 1854

1. Classified Directory of the Booksellers, Stationers, Cheap Publication Sell-
ers, and Periodical Dealers of the United States, West Indies, British, and South
America.

New York: D. Hannegan, Office of the Booksellers' Trade List, 101 Fulton Street,
1854.

Fifty copies only, sold by subscription at $35. Leather.

References: Not found in NUC or OCLC, but a single issue of the Booksellers' Trade
List and Publishers' Register (1, no. 3 [20 June 1854]) is located at PPL, and this
trade journal is listed as Sabin 6367 and Growoll 46.

Not seen. Entry on the basis of a printed broadside call for subscriptions, dated 1
Sept. 1854, sold on eBay 2 Jan. 2009 (item 350145581524). Possibly a ghost.

Orville A. Roorbach (New York), 1859

2. List Of Booksellers In The United States and the Canadas. Collected Since
May Last, By Direct Communication With Every City And Town On The List.
By Orville A. Roorbach.

New York: Orville A. Roorbach, March, 1859.

128 leaves, unpaged. Printed on light blue ledger paper: ruled, except for the first
3 pages, and with versos blank, save for the title leaf. A copy at CtY has an errata
slip inserted at front. Leather spine and corners, cloth sides?

One hundred copies only. Announced, with a call for subscriptions, in BM 1
Jan. 1859 at the pre-publication price $25. Deposited for copyright 9 April 1859.
Advertised as "now ready" in BM 15 April 1859 at $40, and as "Reduced to the
Original Subscription Price, $25" in BM 1 Sept. 1859.

References: Sabin 73098; NUC (NR 0410465); OCLC (54287618 and 17248945
[microform]). A copy now at CtY is briefly described in PW 28 Dec. 1935, p.
2321.

Copies seen: CtY (rebound); DLC (rebound deposit copy).

American Publishers' Circular and Literary Gazette (New York), 1859–1860

3. List Of Booksellers In The New England [Middle] [Southern] [Western]
States Prepared Expressly For The American Publishers' Circular.

Entered according to Act of Congress, 1859 [1860], by Charles B. Rode in
the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern
District of New York.

Caption title for four articles published serially in the American Publishers' Circular
and Literary Gazette 6 Aug. 1859 (pp. 386–387), 10 Sept. 1859 (pp. 452–454), 24
March 1860 (pp. 142–144), and 31 March 1860 (pp. 165–167).

Copy seen: MH.

Wm. F. Bartlett (New York), 1860

4. The Book and Stationery Trade of the United States, Containing a Full
List of the Publishers, Booksellers, Stationers, and Printers throughout the
Union.

New York: Bartlett, 1860.

130pp.

Reference: NUC (NB 0638402).

Not seen. Entry on the basis of NUC entry; Susan G. Glover reports that a copy
at MB lacks the first twelve pages, including the title page.

New York Trade Sale Association (New York), 1863

5. [Price $5. The Booksellers' & Stationers' Trade List: Containing The Names
Of The Booksellers In The United States And Canada. Published under the
auspices of the New York Trade Sale Association, By Miller & Hopkinson,
16 Spruce Street, New York City. Revised And Corrected To Date Of Publica-
tion. May, 1863.

New York: George A. Whitehorne, Steam Printer, 119 Fulton & 42 Ann
Street. [©1863]

[1–5] 6–64. Cloth.

The arrangement of entries suggests that this directory was developed from the
lists published serially in American Publishers' Circular, 1859–60 (no. 3 above),
but it omits entries for the Southern states. Contains 2,402 entries according to
"Index," p. [4].

References: Kelly (1866), p. 23; Sabin 6368; Growoll 62; Lehmann-Haupt, p. 454.
Not found in NUC or OCLC.

Copy seen: MBAt.

John H. Dingman (New York), 1867–1870

John Herbert Dingman (1839–1912) joined the Scribner firm in 1855 and for
many years was in charge of that firm's wholesale department. This series of
directories is listed in NUC (ND 027691) and OCLC (7589825).

6. A Complete List Of Booksellers, Stationers, And News Dealers In The United
States And The Canadas. Revised And Corrected To The Date Of Publication.

New York: John H. Dingman, with Charles Scribner & Co., 654 Broadway,
1867.

[3–7] 8–118. Cloth.

Deposited for copyright 13 Dec. 1866. Listed in ALG 15 Dec. 1866 at $5.

References: Sabin 20198; OCLC (77842840 and 38422155).

Copies seen: DLC (copyright deposit copy); MWA; NN (rebound).

6+. Addenda To The List Of Booksellers, Stationers, And Newsdealers In The
United States and Canada.

New York: John H. Dingman, With Charles Scribner & Co., 654 Broadway.
[©1868]

[3–7] 8–42. Printed paper wrapper.

Contains all changes and additions to 1 Jan. 1868, according to the note on p. 6.

Listed in ALG 16 March 1868 at $2.50. Deposited for copyright 26 May 1868, but
inscribed 21 Feb. 1868 (date of receipt at the district court?) on front wrapper.

References: Sabin 20198; OCLC (77842840 and 38422155).

Copy seen: DLC (deposit copy, wrappers detached).

7. Directory Of Booksellers, Stationers, Newsdealers And Music Dealers In The
United States And Canada. Complete To September 1st, 1868.

New York: John H. Dingman, Care Of Charles Scribner & Co., 654 Broadway.
1868.

[3–7] 8–168, ads [169–180]. Interleaved with blank leaves throughout. Cloth.

Advertised as "now ready" in ALG 15 Sept. 1868 at $10. A copy at DLC dated
16 Oct. 1868 on the title page.

Reference: Sabin 20199.

Copies seen: DLC (2 copies, one rebound).

8. Directory Of Booksellers, Stationers, Newsdealers And Music Dealers In The
United States And Canada. Complete To September 1st, 1869.

New York: John H. Dingman, Care Of Charles Scribner & Co., 654 Broadway.
1869.

ads [A] B-H, [i-v] vi-lix [lx], [7–8] 9–317, ad [318], with additional ads throughout.
Cloth.

Ad, p. [68], states that some copies (not seen) were also printed on thin paper for
use of "travellers."

Advertised as "Revised and corrected to January 1, 1869" in ALG 15 Jan. 1869 at
$10, and again on 1 July 1869 as "to be published September 1st" at the reduced

price of $3. Reviewed in ALG 15 Oct. 1869. Deposited for copyright 19 Oct.
1869. Listed in ALG 1 Nov. 1869 at $3. A copy at NNC dated 17 Oct. 1870 by
original owner.

References: Sabin 20199; Lehmann-Haupt, p. 455; OCLC (37776492).

Copies seen: DLC (2 rebound copies, one a deposit copy); NN (rebound); NNC
(rebacked, with new endpapers).

9. Directory Of Booksellers, Stationers, Newsdealers, And Music Dealers And
List Of Libraries In The United States And Canada. Complete To November
1st, 1870.

New York: John H. Dingman, Care Of Charles Scribner & Co., 654 Broadway.
1870.

ads [i-ii], [i-v] vi-lxiv, lxv*-lxxvii*, ad [lxxviii*], [65] 66–426, ads [427–428],
with additional ads throughout. Cloth.

Copies were printed on two different grades of paper, one of which has now
deteriorated substantially. The preliminary ads, pp. [i-ii], are on a singleton that
was printed as the final leaf of the inserted gathering 4* (pp. lxv*-[lxxviii*]); in
some copies (e.g. MWA) they are bound in the original position following p.
[lxxviii*].

A copy at MH received 12 Nov. 1870. Listed in ALG 15 Nov. 1870 at $3.

References: Kelly (1871), p. 107, OCLC (30549679).

Copies seen: CtY; DLC (2 copies, both rebound); MH (gift of Dingman); MWA;
NHi (rebound, gift of Dingman); PPL; MBW.

Office of Publishers' Weekly (New York), 1879–1880

10. Book and Stationery Trade Directory.

New York: Office of Publishers' Weekly, 1879–80.

Announced in PW 12 July 1879. A preliminary version of a portion (covering
cities and towns in New York state, Adams to Oxford) was published serially in
PW on 12 July 1879 (pp. 26–27), 2 Aug. 1879 (pp. 137–138), 9 Aug. 1879 (pp.
154–154), 16 Aug. 1879 (pp. 171–172), 23 Aug. 1879 (pp. 193–194), 30 Aug.
1879 (pp. 217–218), 27 Sept. 1879 (pp. 382–383), 4 Oct. 1879 (pp. 416–417),
11 Oct. 1870 (pp. 444–445), 18 Oct. 1879 (pp. 469–470), 1 Nov. 1879 (pp.
526–527), 29 Nov. 1879 (p. 772), 6 Dec. 1879 (pp. 802–803), 13 Dec. 1879 (pp.
828–831), 20 Dec. 1879 (p. 852), and 27 Dec. 1879 (pp. 875–876). The complete
directory for New York state announced in PW 20 Dec. 1879 for publication in
April as a separate volume at $2 "provided the subscriptions of the trade justify
the enterprise" with comment "If the results are satisfactory, we shall at once
go forward and complete the Directory for the other States." No further record
found in PW or elsewhere.

Not seen. Apparently never completed or published.

A. C. Farley & Co. and Related Firms (Philadelphia), 1881–1890

The Farley firms also published several directories or guides to other American
industrial and business activities, as well as the periodical The Purchaser A Me-
dium of Useful Information Book, Stationery, Printing, Publishing, Paper and Bookbinding
Trades (OCLC 19960627). This series of bookstore directories was continued by
the Industrial Information Company of New Jersey, 1891 to 1895 (see Nos. 29 to
31 below) and is listed in NUC (NR 0118756), OCLC (15900245 and 38422284),
and Ulrich & Küp, p. 186.

Note: The listing for the 1882 edition (no. 12 below) in PW 29 July 1882 states
that "The price of this issue [$25] includes reports of all changes, etc., that
occur during the year." These reports apparently consisted of broadside "Bul-
letins" that were issued from time to time. The following are known to survive:
Bulletins Nos. 3 & 6, 1886 (both inserted into a copy of the 1886 edition [no. 16
below] at NNC); Bulletins No. 4, 1886, and No. 6, 1889 (both inserted into a
copy of the 1886 edition [no. 16 below] at DLC); Bulletins Nos. 1 to 7, 1888 (not
seen; but based on photocopies of those inserted into a copy of the 1888 edition
[no. 18 below] at ICN); Bulletin No. 9, 1889 (inserted into a copy of the 1888
edition [no. 18 below] at KU).

11. Farley's Directory Of The Stationers, Booksellers, Book Publishers, Paper
Dealers, And Manufacturers Of Stationers Specialties In The United States.
1880–81. Price, Two Dollars.

Philadelphia: Farley & Burnham, Publishers, 407 Walnut Street. 1880.

[i-ii], [1–3] 4 [5–6] 7–191, bl. [192], with ads throughout. Cloth.

Listed in PW 4 Dec. 1880 at $2.

Copies seen: DLC (two undated deposit copies).

12. Farley's Reference List Of The Stationers, Booksellers, Printers And Paper
Dealers In The United States. Published By Subscription. 1882.

Philadelphia: A. C. Farley & Co., Publishers, 418 Library Street. [©1882]

[1–4] 5–234, bl. [235–236]. Cloth.

Deposited for copyright 11 July 1882. Listed in PW 29 July 1880 at $25.

Copies seen: DLC (two deposit copies); KU; NN (rebound).

13. Farley's Reference-Directory of the Booksellers, Stationers and Printers….

Philadelphia: A. C. Farley & Co., 1883.

Not seen. Entry on the basis of the "Preface," p. [iii], in Farley's 1884 directory
(no. 14 below), where that edition is noted as the "fourth issue."

14. Farley's Reference-Directory Of The Booksellers, Stationers and Printers In
The United States And Canada, Comprising Booksellers, Stationers, Printers,

Publishers, Paper Dealers, Bookbinders And News Dealers. Also The Names
Of The Buyers Of Many Wholesale Houses, The Foremen Of Binderies, And A
List Of Reliable Attorneys, One For Each County, With The Bank Or Banker
Recommending Them.

Philadelphia: A. C. Farley & Co., Publishers, 413 Walnut Street. 1884.

[i–viii], 1–275, bl. [276], ads [i] ii-lxxx, with additional ads inserted
throughout.

Cloth.

Deposited for copyright 29 March 1884.

Copies seen: DLC (two deposit copies).

15. Farley's Reference-Directory Of The Booksellers, Stationers and Printers In
The United States And Canada, Comprising Booksellers, Stationers, Printers,
Publishers, Paper Dealers, Bookbinders, Paper-Box Manufacturers And News
Dealers. The Purchasing Agents Of Stationery For The Railroads In The United
States And Canada, And The Names Of The Buyers Of Wholesale Houses.

Philadelphia: A. C. Farley & Co., Publishers, 413 Walnut Street. 1885.

[3–8] 9–328, ads [i] ii-lxiv, with additional ads inserted throughout. Cloth.

Deposited for copyright 12 Feb. 1885.

Reference: OCLC (78103156).

Copies seen: DLC (deposit copy); MWA.

16. Farley's Reference-Directory Of The Booksellers, Stationers and Printers
In The United States And Canada, Comprising Booksellers, Stationers, Print-
ers, Publishers Paper Dealers, Bookbinders, Paper-Box Manufactures And News
Dealers. The Purchasing Agents Of Stationery For The Railroads In The United
States And Canada, And The Names Of The Buyers Of Wholesale Houses.

Philadelphia: A. C. Farley & Co., Publishers, 413 Walnut Street. 1886.

[5–8] 9–373, ad [374], ads [i] ii-lxxvi, with additional ads inserted throughout.
Cloth.

Deposited for copyright 8 March 1886. Listed in PW 17 April 1886 at $10.

Copies seen: DLC (2 deposit copies); NNC.

17. Farley's Reference Directory Of The Booksellers, Stationers and Printers
In The United States And Canada, Comprising Booksellers, Stationers, Print-
ers, Publishers, Paper Dealers, Bookbinders, Paper-Box Manufacturers And
Newsdealers. The Purchasing Agents Of Stationery For The Railroads In The
United States And Canada, And The Names Of The Buyers Of Wholesale
Houses.

Philadelphia: A. C. Farley & Co., Limited, Publishers, 413 Walnut Street.
1887.

[5–8] 9–375, bl. [376], ads [I] II-LXIV, with additional ads inserted throughout.
Cloth; and flexible leather.

Published in two forms: (A) regular edition, printed on regular book paper and
bound in cloth; (B) travellers edition, printed on thin paper and bound in flexible
leather, with "Travellers Edition." goldstamped on front cover.

Deposited (form B) for copyright 23 April 1887. Listed in PW 30 April 1887 at
$15.

Copies seen: DLC (form B, deposit copy); KU (form A).

18. Farley's Reference-Directory Of The Booksellers, Stationers And Printers
In The United States And Canada. Comprising Booksellers, Stationers, Printers,
Publishers, Paper Dealers, Bookbinders, Paper-Box Manufacturers And News-
dealers. The Purchasing Agents Of Stationery For The Railroads In The United
States And Canada, And The Names Of The Buyers Of Wholesale Houses.

A. C. Farley & Co., Limited, Publishers, Drexel Building, Philadelphia. New
York, Chicago, Boston, Cincinnati, Cleveland And San Francisco. 1888.

[5–7], bl. [8], 9–452, ads [I] II-LIX, blank [LX], with folding maps and ads
inserted throughout. Cloth.

Deposited for copyright 31 Aug. 1888. Listed in PW 8 Sept. 1888 at $15.

Reference: OCLC (60618987).

Copies seen: DLC (2 deposit copies); KU; NNC.

19. Farley's Reference-Directory Of The Booksellers, Stationers And Printers
In The United States And Canada. Comprising Booksellers, Stationers, Printers,
Publishers, Paper Dealers, Bookbinders, Paper Box Manufacturers And News-
dealers. The Purchasing Agents Of Stationery For The Railroads In The United
States And Canada, And The Names Of The Buyers Of Wholesale Houses.

Geo. M. S. Horton, Publisher, 78 & 80 Walker Street, New York. 1889–90.

ads [1–2], [3–4], bl. [5], ads [6], [7], ad [8], 9–565, bl. [566], ads [I] II-XXXIII,
bl. [XXXIV], with additional ads inserted throughout. Cloth.

A supplement (not seen) is listed as "4–25p. O. pap. [Price for whole work, $15.]" in PW
2 Aug. 1890.

Reference: OCLC (45187547).

Copies seen: CtY (endpapers replaced); NNC (rebacked).

M. Shirley Geyer and Related Firms (New York), 1886–1893

The Geyer firms were mail-order merchants of stationery and the publishers of
Geyer's Stationer, a trade periodical. This series of directories is listed in NUC (NG
0183316), Lehmann-Haupt, p. 455, Ulrich & Küp, pp. 140 & 182.

20. Geyer's Reference Directory Of The Booksellers and Stationers Of The
United States And Canada. 15,000 Addresses of Live Dealers. Also Containing
A List Of All Paper Mills in the United States and Canada, giving daily Capacity
and kind of Goods manufactured. 1886. Price Five Dollars.

Published By M. Shirley Geyer, 60 Duane Street, New York. [©1886]

ads 2–8, [9–14] 15–166, ads [i-ii], [iii] iv-clxii, ads clxiii-clxv, with additional
ads, some inserted, throughout. Pagination includes printed endpapers and
inserted leaves. Cloth spine, paper-covered boards.

Prints "A List of Wholesale and Retail Booksellers and Stationers of the United
States and Canada," [iii] iv-clv, with addenda clvi-clxii. Corrected to 1 Jan.
1886 according to the "Preface," p. [13].

"Preface," p. [13], dated at end 15 Feb. 1886. Deposited for copyright 19 April
1886. Listed in PW 5 June 1886 at $5.

Reference: OCLC (79457989).

Copies seen: DLC (deposit copy); KU.

21. [with "18" before and "87." after the first word] Geyer's Reference Direc-
tory Of The Booksellers, Stationers, Fancy Goods, Toy and Notion Dealers Of
The United States And Canada. 30,000 Addresses of Live Dealers. Also Con-
taining A List Of All Paper Mills in the United States and Canada, giving daily
Capacity and kind of Goods manufactured. Price Five Dollars.

Published By M. Shirley Geyer, 63 Duane Street, New York. [©1887]

ads 2–8, [9–14] 15–166, ads 167–168, ads [i-ii], [iii] iv–cclxxvii, ads cclxxviii–
cclxxix, with additional ads, some inserted, throughout. Pagination includes
printed endpapers and inserted leaves. Cloth.

Prints "A List of Wholesale and Retail Booksellers and Stationers of the United
States and Canada," [iii] iv–cclxxvii. Corrected to 1 Jan. 1887 according to the
"Preface," p. [13].

"Preface," p. [13], dated at end 15 Feb. 1887. Deposited for copyright 29 March
1887. Listed in PW 7 May 1887 at $5.

Copy seen: DLC (deposit copy).

22. Geyer's Reference Directory Of The Booksellers And Stationers Of The
United States And Canada. Including All Dealers In The Book, Stationery, Pa-
per, Toy, Fancy Goods, Notions, Picture and Picture Frame Trades, Also Book
Publishers, Bookbinders, Lithographers, And Manufacturers Of Stationers' Spe-
cialties. Corrected To January 1st, 1888. Also Containing A List Of All Paper
Mills in the United States and Canada, giving Daily Capacity and Kind of Goods
Manufactured. 1888. Price, Ten Dollars.

Published By M. Shirley Geyer, 63 Duane Street, New York. [©1888]

ads [2] 3–9 [10], [11–12] 13–15 [16] 17 [18] 19–459, ads 460–461, with
additional ads, some inserted, throughout. Pagination includes printed endpapers
and some, but not all, inserted leaves. Cloth.

Prints "A List of the Wholesale and Retail Booksellers and Stationers of the
United States and Canada …," pp. [51] 52–349.

Deposited for copyright 2 May 1888. Listed in PW 23 June 1888 at $10.

Reference: OCLC (58760354).

Copies seen: DLC (deposit copy); NHi (rebound fragment, interleaved, consisting of
the title leaf, 15 [16], [51] 52–349, heavily annotated by book jobber Charles T.
Dillingham).

23. Geyer's Reference Directory Of The Booksellers And Stationers Of The
United States And Canada. Including All Dealers In The Book, Stationery, Pa-
per, Toy, Fancy Goods, Notion, Picture and Picture Frame Trades, including a
complete list of Wholesale Druggists and the Purchasing Agents (Stationery) for
Railroads. Also Book Publishers, Bookbinders, Lithographers, And Manufactur-
ers Of Stationers' Specialties. Corrected To January 1st, 1889. Also Containing A
List Of All Paper Mills in the United States and Canada, giving Daily Capacity
and Kind of Goods Manufactured. 1889. Price, Ten Dollars.

Published By M. Shirley Geyer, 63 Duane Street, New York. [©1889]

ads [2] 3–8 [9–10] 11 [12], [13–14] 15–17 [18] 19 [20] 21–357, 357a-357h,
358–360, 360a–360f, [361] 362–469, ads 470–471, with additional ads, some
inserted, throughout. Pagination includes printed endpapers and some, but not
all, inserted leaves. Cloth.

Prints "A List of the Wholesale and Retail Booksellers and Stationers of the
United States and Canada …," pp. [51] 52–357, 357a-357h.

Deposited for copyright 1 June 1889. Listed in PW 15 June 1889 at $10.

References: Lehmann-Haupt et al, The Book in America (1939), p. 192, and A.
Growoll, A Bookseller's Library (1891), p. 46.

Copies seen: DLC (deposit copy); NNC.

24. Geyer's Reference Directory Of The Booksellers And Stationers Of The
United States And Canada. Including All Dealers In The Book, Stationery, Pa-
per, Toy, Fancy Goods, Notion, Picture and Picture Frame Trades, including a
complete list of Wholesale Druggists and the Purchasing Agents (Stationery) for
Railroads. Also Book Publishers, Bookbinders, Lithographers, And Manufactur-
ers Of Stationers' Specialties. Corrected To January 1st, 1890. Also Containing A
List Of All Paper Mills in the United States and Canada, giving Daily Capacity
and Kind of Goods Manufactured. 1890. Price, Ten Dollars.

Published By M. Shirley Geyer, 63 Duane Street, New York. [©1890]

ads [2] 3–10 [11–12] 13–14, [15–16] 17–20 [21–22] 23–29 [30] 31–48 [55]
56–373 376–496, ads 497–499, with additional ads, some inserted, throughout.
Pagination includes printed endpapers and some, but not all, inserted leaves.
Cloth.

Prints "A List of the Wholesale and Retail Booksellers and Stationers of the
United States and Canada …," pp. [55]-373.

Deposited 10 July 1890.

Copy seen: DLC (deposit copy).

25. Geyer's Reference Directory Of The Booksellers And Stationers Of The
United States And Canada….

New York: Andrew Geyer, 1891.

499pp. Cloth.

Listed in PW 22 Aug. 1891 at $10.

Not seen. Entry on the basis of PW listing.

26. Geyer's Reference Directory Of The Booksellers And Stationers Of The
United States And Canada….

New York: Andrew Geyer, 1892.

Not seen. Entry on the basis of the regular annual publication schedule of the
series, but possibly a ghost.

27. Geyer's Reference Directory Of The Booksellers And Stationers Of The
United States And Canada….

New York: Andrew Geyer, 1893.

[54pp.?], [55] 56–468, [2pp.?], [471] 472–624. Cloth?

Prints "A List of the Wholesale and Retail Booksellers and Stationers of the United
States and Canada …," pp. [55]-468. Corrected to 1 Jan. 1893, according to
caption title, p. [55].

Note: A copy of Geyer's Directory of the American Paper Trade (1893) at DLC states
in the "Preface" (dated at end 1 Sept. 1893), p. [9], that "With the present issue
the Paper Mill Department of Geyer's Reference Directory is published separate
from the Stationery Department, and will be known as the Directory of the
American Paper Trade"; this publication, paged [471] 472–624, is presumably
a separate issue or printing of a portion of the complete Geyer's Reference Directory
Of The Booksellers And Stationers for 1893.

Listed with 624pp. in PW 10 March 1894 at $10.

Reference: OCLC (58670201).

Copy seen: NHi (rebound fragment, interleaved, paged [55] 56–467, ad [468]).

C. N. Caspar (Milwaukee), 1889

28. Caspar's Directory Of The American Book, News And Stationery Trade
Wholesale And Retail Comprising The Publishing, Subscription, Retail Book,
Antiquarian, News, Map, Art, Music, Manufacturing, Jobbing and Retail Sta-
tionery, Blank Book and Paper Manufacturing Business, and General Jobbers in

above Lines, in the United States and Canada…. By C. N. Caspar, Milwaukee,
Wis…. Price, $12.00 Net.

Milwaukee: C. N. Caspar's Book Emporium. London: B. F. Stevens. New
York: Office of "The Publishers' Weekly." Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus. 1889.

[I–III] IV–VII [VIII–IX] X–XIII [XIV–XVI] XVII–XVIII, "Addenda"
[1] 2–32 32a–32g, ad [32h], "Part I [Caspar's Directory of the Book, News
and Stationery Trade and Kindred Branches]" [33] 34–570, "Part II [Digest
of the Trade-Lists of the American Book Publishers]" [571] 572–594, "Part
III [Digest of the Trade Lists of the American Manufacturing and Jobbing
Stationers, Blank Book and Paper-Makers, etc.]" [595] 596–613 [614], "Part
IV [Geographical Classification]" [615] 616–1040, "Part V [The Trade
Branches in the Directory, Alphabetically Arranged]" [1041] 1042–1261, "Part
VI [Theory and Practice of the Book Trade and Kindred Branches]" [1262]
1263–1381 [1382], "Analytical Index" [1383] 1384–1392, advts. 1393–1434 pp.
Frontispiece and further ads inserted throughout. Leather spine and corners, cloth
sides.

Published in two forms: (A) regular edition, as above, bound in 1 vol.; (B)
travelers' edition, bound in 2 vols., and identified as such on an additional title
page that appears at the front of the second volume (which begins with Part IV):
"Caspar's Directory Of The American Book, News and Stationery Trades, And
Kindred Branches. Travelers' Edition…. Copyrighted, 1889, By C. N. Caspar,
Milwaukee, Wis."

Noted as "gives the addresses of 50,907 firms in one alphabet" (i.e. in Part I) in
A. Growoll, The Profession of Bookselling, Part 1 (1893), p. 65.

First advertised in PW 22 Jan. 1887 at $8 for subscribers and $12 for non-
subscribers. The process of compilation and publication can be traced in
notes in PW 22 Jan. 1887, 25 June 1887, 3 Dec. 1887, 14 April 1888, 10 Nov.
1888, and 26 Jan. 1889. Advertised in PW 9 Feb. 1889 with several specimen
pages. Noted as "at last ready" in PW 27 July 1889. A copy at MH (form A)
received 30 July 1889. Listed in PW 3 Aug. 1889 at $12. Noted in Literary World
28 Sept. 1889 and PW 19 Oct. 1889.

References: Growoll 91; Ulrich & Küp, p. 180; A. Growoll, A Bookseller's Library
(1891), p. 45; NUC (NC 0486084); OCLC (40206592; 34813761 [travelers'
editon]; 13755063, 22087059, 22750649 [all microform]; and 4678720 [dated
1899, almost surely a cataloging error]).

Copies seen: KCo (form A), MH (form A, rebacked); MnHi (form A); NN (form B,
disbound, missing ads pp. 1423–1434); MBW (form A).

Industrial Information Company of New Jersey (New York), 1891–1895

This series of directories continues that published during 1880s by A. C. Farley &
Co. and related firms (see Nos. 11 to 19 above). The Industrial Information Co.
was dissolved in 1895 (see R. M. Smythe, comp., Obsolete American Securities and

Obligations, vol. 2 [1911], p. 605). The listing for the 1895 directory (No. 31 below)
in AmCat (1901), p. 407, states that "None issued since 1895."

29. The Booksellers, Stationers, And Printers Reference-Directory. (For-
merly Farley's.) Comprising Bookbinders, Electrotypers, Lithographers, Print-
ers. Manufacturers And Dealers In Bookbinders', Lithographers' & Printers'
Machinery Or Supplies. Wholesale And Retail Dealers In Artists' Materials,
Books, Cardboard, Cards, Music, newspapers, Paper, School Supplies, Statio-
nery and Stationers' Fancy Goods. Publishers Of Books, Maps, Music, News-
papers, Subscription Books, Etc. Manufacturers of Blank Books, Envelopes,
Paper Bags, Paper Boxes, Stationery and Stationery Specialties. The Pur-
chasing Agents Of Stationery For The Railroads In The United States And
Canada.

Industrial Information Company, Publishers, 88–90 Centre Street, New
York. 1891.

ads [1–2], [3–4] 5–8 [i-ii] 9–645 [646], ads i-xxiv, with additional ads inserted
throughout. Cloth?

Listed in PW 8 Aug. 1891 at $15. Deposited for copyright 20 Aug. 1891.

Copy seen: DLC (deposit copy, rebound).

30. The Reference-Directory Of Booksellers, Stationers And Printers Of The
United States And Canada. 1892–93. Comprising Bookbinders, Lithographers,
Printers, Plate Printers, Electrotypers, Stereotypers, Photo-Engravers. Wholesale
And Retail Dealers In Artists' Materials, Books, Music, Newspapers And Peri-
odicals, School Supplies, Stationery And Stationers' Fancy Goods. Publishers
Of Art Novelties, Books, Maps, Music, Newspapers, Subscription Books, Etc.
Manufacturers Of Blank Books, Envelopes, Paper Bags, Paper Boxes, Stationery,
Stationery Specialties And Advertising Novelties. Manufacturers And Jobbers Of
Bookbinders', Lithographers' & Printers' Machinery And Supplies, Paper, Card-
board And Cut Cards. The Purchasing Agents Of Stationery For All Railroads
In The United States And Canada. Fourteenth Year.

Industrial Information Company, Publishers, 88–90 Centre Street, New
York. 1893.

ad [1], bl. [2], [3–4] 5–639, bl. [640], ads i-xvi, with additional inserted ads
throughout. Cloth.

Deposited for copyright 16 Feb. 1893. Listed in AmCat (1896), p. 366, at $15.

Reference: OCLC (15900324).

Copy seen: DLC (deposit copy).

31. The Reference-Directory Of Booksellers, Stationers And Printers Of The
United States And Canada. (Including All Kindred Trade) (Formerly Farley's.)

1895. Comprising Bookbinders, Printers, Lithographers, Plate Printers, Elec-
trotypers, Stereotypers, Photo-Engravers, Paper Rulers. Wholesale And Retail
Dealers In Books, Newspapers And Periodicals, Stationery, Artists' Materials,
School Supplies, Stationers' Fancy Goods. Publishers Of Books, Newspapers,
Maps, Music, Art Novelties, Subscription Books, Etc. Manufacturers Of Blank
Books, Envelopes, Paper Bags, Paper Boxes, Stationery, Stationery Specialties
And Advertising Novelties. Manufacturers And Jobbers Of Bookbinders', Li-
thographers' & Printers' Machinery And Supplies, Paper, Cardboard And Cut
Cards. A List Of The Purchasers Of Stationery Supplies For All Railroads In
The United States And Canada. A List Of Representative Trade Papers. A List
Of Representative Dailies. Sixteenth Year.

Industrial Information Company Of New Jersey, 156 Fifth Avenue, New
York. 1895.

ads [1–2], [3–4] 5–7, ad 8, 9–656, ads [i] ii-xvi, with additional ads inserted
throughout.

Published in two forms: (A) regular edition, printed on standard paper and bound
in cloth; (B) travelers' edition, printed on thin paper and bound in flexible leather
without inserted ads and final ads on pp. [i] ii–xvi.

Dated "July 1895." on spine (form A). Deposited (form A) for copyright 9 Aug.
1895. Listed in PW 14 Sept. 1895 at $15.

Copies seen: DLC (form A, deposit copy); NNC (form B, missing front cover).

James Clegg (Rochdale UK), 1899–1914

This series of directories continues an earlier series that was restricted to second-
hand bookstores (see Nos. 64 to 66 below) and was continued by a "new series"
published by "The Librarian" and related firms (see Nos. 58 to 62 below). Listed
in Ulrich & Küp, pp. 120, 140, 159.

32. The International Directory of Booksellers And Bibliophile's Manual, In-
cluding Lists Of The Public Libraries of the World; Publishers, Book Collectors,
Learned Societies And Institutions, Theological Colleges, And A Bibliography
of Works of Reference. Edited By James Clegg.

Rochdale: Printed And Published By James Cleeg[!], Aldine Press. London:
Elliot Stock, 62, Paternoster Row, E.C. New York: Dodd, Mead, & Co.,
149, Fifth Avenue. Paris: Librairie Neal, 248, Rue De Rivoli. Leipzig: Geo.
Hedeler, "Export Journal" Office. 1899. [Entered at Stationers' Hall.]

ads [i-vii], [i], ad [ii], [iii] iv [v] vi [vii] viii [ix] x–xi, ad [xii], [1] 2–367, ad
[368], ads 1–31, with additional ads throughout. Pagination includes ads printed
on endpapers. Cloth.

Prints a list of booksellers in Canada, pp. 105–109, and in the United States, pp.
109–144; with "Additions and Changes," pp. x–xi. According to "Numerical

Summary …," p. [ix], lists 1547 addresses in the United States and 189 in
Canada.

"Preface," pp. [iii]-iv, dated at end 4 Nov. 1898. A copy at NNNAM received 27 May
1899.

Copies seen: CtY; DLC; NNGr; MBW (ex libris NNNAM).

33. The International Directory of Booksellers And Bibliophile's Manual In-
cluding Lists Of The Public Libraries of the World Publishers, Book Collectors,
Learned Societies And Institutions, Universities And Colleges; Also Bibliogra-
phies Of Book And Library Catalogues, Concordances, Bookplates, Etc..[!] Etc.
Edited By James Clegg.

Rochdale: Printed And Published By James Clegg, Aldine Press. London:
Elliot Stock, 62, Paternoster Row, E.C. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 372
Fifth Avenue. Paris: Boyveau & Chevillet, 22, Rue De La Banque. Leipzig:
Geo. Hedeler, "Export Journal" Office. 1903. [Entered at Stationers' Hall.]

ads [i–v], [i], ad [ii], [iii] iv–xi, ads xii–xiii [xiv], [1] 2–384, ads 1–39, with
additional ads printed throughout. Pagination includes ads on the endpapers.
Cloth.

Prints a list of booksellers in Canada, pp. 103–107, and in the United States, pp.
108–151; with "Additions and Changes," pp. x–xi. According to "Numerical
Summary …," p. ix, lists 1690 addresses in the United States and 207 in
Canada.

"Preface," pp. [iii]-iv, dated at end 1 Nov. 1902. A copy at NNNAM received
17 Dec. 1902.

Copies seen: CtY; MBW (ex libris NNNAM).

34. The International Directory of Booksellers And Bibliophile's Manual In-
cluding Lists Of The Public Libraries of the World Publishers, Book Collectors,
Learned Societies And Institutions, Universities And Colleges; Also Bibliogra-
phies Of Book And Library Catalogues, Concordances, Bookplates, Etc., Etc.
Edited By James Clegg.

Rochdale: Printed And Published By James Clegg, Aldine Press. London:
Elliot Stock, 62 Paternoster Row, E.C. New York: Dodd, Mead, & Co., 372
Fifth Avenue. Paris: Boyveau & Chevillet, 22 Rue De La Banque. Leipzig:
Geo. Hedeler, "Export Journal" Office. 1906. [Entered at Stationers' Hall.]

ads [i–v], [i], ad [ii], [iii] iv-xi, ads xii-xiii, xiv, [1] 2–464, ads 1–43, with
additional ads throughout. Pagination includes ads printed on the endpapers.
Cloth.

Prints a list of booksellers in Canada, pp. 137–142, and in the United States,
pp. 143–199; with "Additions and Changes," pp. x-xi. According to "Numerical
Summary …," p. ix, lists 2076 addresses in the United States and 246 in
Canada.

"Preface," pp. [iii]-iv, dated at end 10 Feb. 1906. A copy at NNNAM received
20 March 1906.

Copy seen: CtY; NNGr; MBW (ex libris NNNAM).

35. The International Directory of Booksellers And Bibliophile's Manual In-
cluding Lists Of The Public Libraries of the World Publishers, Book Collectors,
Learned Societies And Institutions, Universities And Colleges; Also Bibliogra-
phies Of Book And Library Catalogues, Concordances, Bookplates, Etc., Etc.
Edited By James Clegg.

Rochdale: Printed And Published By James Clegg, Aldine Press. London:
Elliot Stock, 62 Paternoster Row, E.C. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 372
Fifth Avenue. Paris: Boyveau & Chevillet, 22 Rue De La Banque. Leipzig:
Geo. Hedeler, 18 Nurnbergerstrasse. 1910. [Entered at Stationers' Hall.]

ads [i–v], [i], ad [ii], [iii] iv–xvi, ad [xvii], xviii, [1] 2–516, ads 1–39, with
additional ads throughout. Pagination includes ads printed on the endpapers.
Cloth.

Prints a list of booksellers in Canada, pp. 147–154, and in the United States,
pp. 155–216; with "Additions and Changes," pp. x–xi. According to "Numerical
Summary …," p. ix, lists 2354 addresses in the United States and 321 in
Canada.

A 4-page leaflet, unpaged, with caption title "February, 1910. Supplement To
The International Directory of Booksellers 1910. Additions and Changes." is
inserted in a copy at NNGr.

Copy at NNNAM received 2 Dec. 1909.

Copies seen: CtY; DLC; NNGr; MBW (ex libris NNNAM).

36. The International Directory of Booksellers And Bibliophile's Manual In-
cluding Lists Of The Public Libraries of the World Publishers, Book Collectors,
Learned And Scientific Societies, Universities And Colleges; Also A Select Bib-
liography of Bibliographies. Edited By James Clegg.

Rochdale: Printed And Published By James Clegg, Aldine Press. London:
Elliot Stock, 7 Paternoster Row, E.C. New York: Dodd & Livingston, 4th
Avenue & 30th Street. Paris: Boyveau & Chevillet, 22 Rue De La Banque.
Leipzig: Geo. Hedeler, 11 Nürnbergerstrasse. Vienna: Gilhofer & Ranschburg,
2 Bognergasse. 1914.

ads [i–v], [i], ad ii, iii, ad iv, v–xiv, [1] 2–644, ads 1–35, with additional ads
throughout. Pagination includes ads printed on endpapers. Cloth.

Prints a list of booksellers in Canada, pp. 165–174, and in the United States,
pp. 175–246; with "Additions and Changes," pp. x–xiii. According to "Numerical
Summary …," p. ix, lists 2911 addresses in the United States and 434 in
Canada.

"Preface," p. iii, dated 11 Oct. 1913 at end.

Copies seen: CtY; NNGr; MBW.

H. W. Wilson Co. (Minneapolis), 1902–1910

The "2nd–5th eds. 1903–1908" listed in Ulrich & Küp, p. 181.

37. Directory Of Booksellers, Librarians, Publishers and Stationers In The
United States And Canada

Minneapolis H. W. Wilson, Publisher 1902

bl. [1–2], [3–7] 8–175, bl. [176]. Stapled, with printed paper wrapper.

Identified as "FIRST EDITION" on front wrapper with a note stating that a
"supplement containing additions, changes and corrections for this edition is to
be published monthly" and sent free to subscribers and that a "revised edition is
to be published before the end of the year."

Deposited for copyright 24 July 1902.

Reference: NUC (ND 0281762).

Copies seen: DLC (2 deposit copies, part of front wrapper missing on second).

38. Directory Of Booksellers, Stationers, Publishers and Libraries In The United
States And Canada Second Edition

Minneapolis The H. W. Wilson Company, Publishers 1903

160 leaves, unpaged. Cloth.

Contains over 8,000 names, according to leaf 3 recto.

A copy at NjP received 8 July 1904. Deposited for copyright 2 March 1905. Listed
in United States Catalog Supplement Books Published 1902–1905 (1906) at $10.

References: Lehmann-Haupt, p. 455; NUC (ND 0281766).

Copies seen: DLC (deposit copy); NjP (rebound)

38+. Supplement To the Second Edition of Directory Of Booksellers, Statio-
ners, Publishers and Libraries In The United States And Canada Contains a
large amount of additional information and corrections and changes made since
the issue of the 2nd edition

The H. W. Wilson Company, Publishers, Minneapolis 1904

48 leaves, unpaged, with versos blank. Stapled, without wrapper.

Deposited for copyright 2 March 1905.

References: NUC (ND 0281766) and OCLC (78154815).

Copy seen: DLC (deposit copy).

39. Directory Of Booksellers, Newsdealers and Stationers In The United States
And Canada Third Edition

Minneapolis The H. W. Wilson Company, 1906

89 leaves, unpaged, with versos blank (save for copyright page). Cloth.

Two bindings noted: (A) title on spine blackstamped and reading down; (B) title
on spine goldstamped and reading up.

Listed in CBI (1906) at $5. Deposited for copyright (binding A) 8 Oct. 1906.

References: NUC (ND 0281763) and OCLC (34648987).

Copies seen: DLC (2 copies [binding A & B], one a deposit copy).

40. Directory of Booksellers, Newsdealers and Stationers in the United States
and Canada. Fourth Edition.

Minneapolis: The H. W. Wilson Company, November, 1907.

90 leaves, unpaged, with versos blank. Printed paper boards, cloth spine.

Listed in CBI (1907) at $5.

Reference: OCLC (8870963).

Copy seen: MBW.

41. Directory Of Booksellers, Newsdealers and Stationers In The United States
And Canada Fifth Edition

Minneapolis The H. W. Wilson Company 1908

104 leaves, unpaged, with versos blank save for copyright page and final 5 leaves,
containing "The Directory of Publishers." Cloth.

A copy at NNC received 1 March 1909. Listed in CBI (1908) and in PW 6 March
1909, both at $5.

References: Lehmann-Haupt, pp. 454–455; NUC (ND 0281764); OCLC
(11856585).

Copy seen: DLC (rebound); NNC (2 copies).

42. Directory Of Booksellers, Newsdealers and Stationers In The United States
and Canada Sixth Edition

Minneapolis The H. W. Wilson Company August 1909.

105 leaves, unpaged, with versos blank save for the final 5 leaves, which contain
"The Directory of Publishers." Cloth.

The "Preface," leaf 2 recto, states that the list contains "over 4,500 representative
booksellers."

Reference: OCLC (62352189).

Copy seen: MnU.

43. Directory of Booksellers, News Dealers, and Stationers in the United States
and Canada. Seventh Edition.

Minneapolis: The H. W. Wilson Company, 1910.

Listed in CBI (1910) at $10.

Reference: Marjorie Stafford, "Subscription Book Publishing in the United States,
1865–1930" (MA thesis, University of Illinois, 1943), p. 169. Not found in NUC
or OCLC.

Not seen.

R. R. Bowker Co., Office of The Publishers' Weekly (New York), 1912–1949

The Bowker firm published a directory of bookstores as part of several of its
different reference tools for the book trade, which are listed in Ulrich & Küp,
pp. 113, 115, 136, 165, 177.

44. The American Library Annual 1911–1912 Including Index To Dates Of
Current Events; Necrology Of Writers; Bibliographies; Statistics Of Book Pro-
duction; Select Lists Of Libraries; Directories Of Publishers And Booksellers; List
Of Private Collectors Of Books, Etc.

New York Office Of The Publishers' Weekly 1912

[i–vi], [1–3] 4–325, bl. [326]. Cloth.

Prints "A Directory of Booksellers in the Principal Towns of the United States
and Canada," pp. [237–238] 239–325.

A copy at DLC received 31 May 1912. Listed in PW 15 June 1912 at $5.

Copies seen: DLC; TxU.

45. The American Library Annual 1913 Including Index To Dates Of Cur-
rent Events; Bibliographies; Statistics Of Book Production; Lists Of Library And
Booktrade Periodicals And Organizations; Select Lists Of Libraries; Directories
Of Publishers And Booksellers; List Of Private Collectors Of Books, Etc.

bl. [i–ii], [iii–vi], [1–184] 185–468, bl. [469–470]. Cloth.

Prints "A Directory of Booksellers in the Principal Towns of the United States
and Canada" pp. [369–370] 371–468.

Listed in PW 19 July 1913 at $5. A copy at DLC received 1 Aug. 1913.

Copies seen: DLC; TxU.

46. The American Library Annual 1913–1914 Including Index To Dates Of
Current Events; Bibliographies; Statistics Of Book Production; Lists Of Li-
brary And Booktrade Periodicals And Organizations; Select Lists Of Librar-
ies; Directories Of Publishers And Booksellers; List Of Private Collectors Of
Books, Etc.

New York R. R. Bowker Co. 1914

[i–iv], [1–164] 165–484. Cloth.

Prints "A Directory of Booksellers in the Principal Towns of the United States
and Canada," pp. [393–394] 395–484.

Listed in PW 11 July 1914 at $5. A copy at DLC received 14 July 1914.

Copies seen: DLC; TxU.

47. American Book Trade Manual 1915 Including Lists Of Publishers, Booksell-
ers And Private Book Collectors

New York R. R. Bowker Co. Office Of The Publishers' Weekly 1915

bl. [i–ii], [iii–viii], [1–2] 3–334 [335–336]. Cloth.

Prints "A Directory of Booksellers in the Principal Towns of the United States
and Canada," pp. [241–242] 243–334.

A copy at DLC received 15 Oct. 1915. Listed in PW 16 Oct. 1915 at $5.

Copies seen: DLC (2 copies); TxU.

48. American Book Trade Manual 1919 Including Lists Of Publishers, Booksell-
ers Periodicals And Organizations

New York R. R. Bowker Co. Office of The Publishers' Weekly 1919

[1–6] 7–161, bl. [162–164]. Cloth.

Prints a "Directory of Booksellers in the United States and Canada," pp. [43–
44] 45–136.

Listed in PW 12 July 1919 at $5. Copies at DLC received 14 July 1919.

Copies seen: DLC (2 copies); MBW.

49. American Book Trade Manual 1922 Including Lists Of Publishers, Booksell-
ers Periodicals And Organizations

New York R. R. Bowker Co. Office of The Publishers' Weekly 1922

[1–6] 7–180, bl. [181–184]. Cloth.

Prints a "Directory of Booksellers in the United States and Canada," pp. [39–
40] 41–151.

Advertised as "Ready September 15th" in PW 29 July 1922 and 12 Aug. 1922,
and as "just issued" in PW 30 Sept. 1922, all at $5.

Copies seen: DLC (2 copies); TxU.

50. American Booktrade Directory 1925 Including Lists Of Publishers, Book-
sellers, Organizations And Periodicals

New York R. R. Bowker Co. Office of The Publishers' Weekly 1925

ad [i] ii–xiii, bl. [xiv], [xv–xvi] [1–7] 8–255, bl. [256]. Cloth.

Prints a "Directory of Booksellers" (including the United States, U. S. territories
& possessions, North American neighbors, & a variety of foreign booksellers),

pp. [21–23] 24–223. According to a note on p. [22], contains 5,800 entries for
the United States.

Copies at DLC received 2 Nov. 1925 and at MoK 4 Nov. 1925. Listed in PW 7
Nov. 1925 at $7.50.

Copies seen: DLC (2 copies); MBW (ex libris MoK).

51. American Booktrade Directory 1928 Including Lists Of Publishers, Book-
sellers, Organizations And Periodicals

New York R. R. Bowker Co. Office of The Publishers' Weekly 1928

ads [i] ii–xv, bl. [xvi], [i–ii] [1–7] 8–381, bl. [382]. Cloth.

Prints a "Directory of Booksellers" (including the United States, U. S. territories
& possessions, North American neighbors, & a variety of foreign booksellers),
pp. [37–38] 39–338. According to a note on p. [38], contains 5,662 entries for
the United States.

A copy at DLC received 16 Oct. 1928. Listed in PW 20 Oct. 1928 at $10.

Copies seen: DLC (2 copies); MBW.

52. American Booktrade Directory Including Lists Of Publishers, Booksellers,
Periodicals, Literary Agents, Book Clubs, Etc. 1932

R. R. Bowker Co. Office of The Publishers' Weekly New York [©1932]

ads [i] ii–ix, bl. [x], [i–ii] [1–2] 3–351, bl. [352–356]. Cloth.

Prints a "Directory of Booksellers" (including only the United States & Canada),
pp. [33] 34–301. According to a note on p. 34, contains 5,662 entries for the
United States.

Copies received at DLC 11 June 1932. Listed in PW 11 June 1932 at $10.

Copies seen: DLC (2 copies); MBW.

53. American Booktrade Directory Including Lists Of Publishers, Booksellers,
Periodicals, Literary Agents, Book Clubs, Etc. 1935

R. R. Bowker Co. Office of The Publishers' Weekly New York [©1935]

ads [i–iii] iv-x, [1–6] 7–330. Cloth.

Prints a "Directory of Booksellers" (including only the United States and Canada),
pp. [37–38] 39–279. According to a note on p. [38], contains 6,000 entries for
the United States.

Copies received at DLC and MoK 14 Oct. 1935. Listed in PW19 Oct. 1935 at $10.

Copies seen: DLC (2 copies); MBW (ex libris MoK).

54. American Booktrade Directory Including Lists Of Publishers, Booksellers,
Periodicals, Literary Agents, Book Clubs, Etc. 1939

R. R. Bowker Co. Office of The Publishers' Weekly New York [©1939]

ads [i–iii], iv-x, [11–14] 15–326, bl. [327–328]. Cloth.

Prints "A Directory of Booksellers…" (including only the United States and Canada),
pp. [42] 43–277. According to a note on p. [42], contains approximately 5,873
entries for the United States.

Copies received at MoK 5 April 1939, at TxU 7 April 1939, and at DLC 26 April
1939. Listed in PW 8 April 1839 at $12.

Copies seen: DLC (2 copies, one rebound); TxU; MBW (ex libris MoK).

55. American Booktrade Directory Including Lists Of Publishers, Booksellers,
Periodicals, Literary Agents, Book Clubs, Etc. 1942

R. R. Bowker Co. Office of The Publishers' Weekly New York [©1942]

ads [i–ii] iii–xi, bl. [xii], [xiii–xiv] xv, bl. [xvi], 1–362, bl. [363–364]. Cloth.

Prints "A Directory of Booksellers …" (including only the United States and
Canada), pp. 27–310. According to a note on p. 27, contains approximately
7,078 entries in 2,072 cities and towns for the United States, and 432 entries
for Canada.

Copy at TxU received 21 Dec. 1942 and at MoK 4 Jan. 1943. Deposited for
copyright 26 Dec. 1942. Listed in PW 2 Jan. 1943 at $15.

Copies seen: DLC (2 deposit copies); TxU; MBW (ex libris MoK).

56. American Booktrade Directory Lists Of Publishers, Booksellers, Periodicals,
Trade Organizations, Book Clubs, Literary Agents, Etc. 1946

R. R. Bowker Co. Office of The Publishers' Weekly New York [©1946]

ads [i–ii] iii–xii, [xiii–xiv] xv, bl. [xvi], 1–407, bl. [408–412]. Cloth.

Prints "A Directory of Booksellers…" (including only the United States and Canada),
pp. 29–368. According to a note on p. 29, contains approximately 7,408 entries
in 2,077 cities and towns for the United States, and approximately 515 in 158
cities and towns for Canada.

A copy at MoK received 11 Oct. 1946. Listed in PW 12 Oct. 1946 at $15.
Deposited for copyright 13 Oct. 1946.

Copies seen: DLC (2 copies, one the deposit copy); TxU; MBW (ex libris MoK).

57. American Booktrade Directory Lists Of Publishers, Booksellers, Periodicals,
Trade Organizations, Book Clubs, Reading Circles, Etc. 11th Edition

Published in the Offices of Publishers' Weekly Antiquarian Bookman R. R.
Bowker Company New York 1949

[i–v] vi–vii, bl. [viii], [1–2] 3–575, bl. [576]. Cloth.

Prints "Directory of Booksellers in the United States, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto
Rico & Canada," pp. 39–530.

Deposited for copyright 28 Oct. 1949. A copy at TxU received 31 Oct. 1949.

Listed in PW 5 Nov. 1949 at $17.50.

Copies seen: DLC (deposit copy); TxU.

"The Librarian" (Gravesend) and Successors, 1927–1950

This series continues that originally published by James Clegg (nos. 32 to 36
above). See Ulrich & Küp, pp. 120, 140, 159.

58. "The Librarian" International Directory of Booksellers, Publishers, Binders,
Paper Makers, Printers, Agents, etc. 1927 Clegg's Successor Edited by Alex. J.
Philip, M.B. E. Ed.: "The Librarian"; "The Libraries, Museums and Art Gal-
leries Year Book," etc.

Gravesend: "The Librarian," Lodgewood, Windmill Street. London: Simpkin,
Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd., E.C.4. New York: R. R. Bowker Co.
62, West 45th Street. Leipzig.[!] G. Hedeler. 1927

bl. [1], ads 2–4, [5], ad 6, 7–8, ads 9–10, 11, ad 12, 13–236, ad 237, "Notes."
[238–239], bl. [240], with additional ads printed throughout. Cloth.

Two bindings noted: (A) with printed paper labels on front and spine and unprinted
endpapers; (B) goldstamped, with p. [1] used as paste-down endpaper.

Prints a list of "Booksellers in the Principal Towns of the United States of America,"
pp. 135–161, and "Canada," pp. 203–206.

Copies seen: CtY (binding B); NNGr (binding B); MBW (binding A).

59. Clegg's International Directory of Booksellers, Publishers, Binders, Paper
Makers, Printers, Agents, Book Collectors, etc. 1930–1931 New Series: No. 2

bl. [1], ad 2, [3], ad 4, 5–6, ad 7, 8, ads 9–10, 11–438, ad 439, bl. [440]. Cloth.

Two bindings noted: (A) with printed paper labels on front and spine and
unprinted endpapers; (B) goldstamped, with pp. [1] and [440] used as paste-
down endpapers.

Prints a list of "Booksellers in the Principal Towns of the United States of America,"
pp. 169–233, and in "Canada," pp. 394–398.

"Preface," p. 8, dated at end June 1930.

Copies seen: CtY (binding B); NNGr (binding B); TxU (2 copies, bindings A and
B); MBW (binding A).

60. Clegg's International Directory of The World's Book Trade Booksellers,
Publishers Book Collectors, etc. 1936–7 Volume I English Speaking Countries
New Series: No. 3

Gravesend: "The Librarian," Lodgewood, Windmill Street [1936]

ad ii, [iii], ad iv, v–vi, ad vii, viii, ads ix–x, xi, ad xii, 1–477, ads [478–481],
with additional ads throughout. Pagination includes endpapers. Cloth.

Prints a list of the booksellers and publishers of Canada, pp. 311–316, and of the
booksellers of the United States, pp. 337–410.

"Preface," p. viii, dated Sept. 1936 at end. A copy at MdBJ received 21 Dec.
1936.

Copies seen: CtY; CU; MdBJ.

61. Clegg's International Directory of The World's Book Trade Booksellers,
Publishers Book Collectors, etc. 1940–1 (The Book Trade Directory since 1886)
English Speaking Countries New Series. No. 4

London: Fudge & Co., Ltd., Sardinia House, Kingsway, W.C.2 [1940]

ad ii, [iii], ad iv, v–vi, ads vii–xii, [1] 2–371, ads [372], ads xiii-xv, with additional
ads throughout. Pagination includes endpapers. Cloth.

Prints a list of the booksellers and publishers of Canada, pp. 285–288, and of the
booksellers of the United States, pp. 306–355.

Copies seen: CtY; MdBJ; MBW.

62. Clegg's International Directory Of The World's Book Trade 1950

London: James Clarke & Co. Ltd., 5 Wardrobe Place, Carter Lane, London,
E.C.4 New York: R. R. Bowker Co., 62 West 45th Street, New York, 19,
U.S.A. [1950]

[i], ad ii, iii, ad iv, v, ad vi, vii, ad viii, ix, ad x, xi–xv, ad xvi, xvii–xix, ad xx,
1–694 [695], bl. [696], with additional ads throughout. Pp. 417–496 printed on
blue paper and pp. 633–694 [695–696] printed on pink-tan paper. Cloth.

Prints a list of "Canada Booksellers," pp. 515–525, and "Booksellers in United
States of America," pp. 526–566.

A copy at NNGr received 6 Sept. 1950 and at TxU 7 Feb. 1951.

Copies seen: CtY (endpapers repaired); NNGr (2 copies, one rebound); TxU;
MBW.

II. Second-Hand and Antiquarian Bookstores

C. N. Caspar (Milwaukee), 1885–1887

63. Directory Of The Antiquarian Booksellers And Dealers In Second-Hand
Books Of The United States. Arranged First–In a General Alphabet, with
Addresses. Second–Geographically according to States and Towns. Third–
Classifying the Specialties of each Dealer. Together With Valuable Hints For
Finding The Author, Title, Publisher, Place Of Publication, Edition, Size Or
Price Of Books, a List Of Practical Bibliographies, Trade Catalogues, Retail
And Special Lists, Literary And Trade Journals, Advertising Mediums, Etc., All

Pertaining To The Foreign And American New And Antiquarian Book Trade.
The leading Jobbing Houses in Miscellaneous New Books, Important Subscrip-
tion Book Publishers, and the various News Companies and Wholesale Dealers
in Newspapers, Periodicals and Popular Books, with Addresses of the same. Sub-
scription-Price, $5.00 Net. Compiled by C. N. Caspar.

Milwaukee, Wis. C. N. Caspar, Publisher. 1885.

[1–5] 6 [7] 8–11, bl. [12], [13] 14–268, addenda 269–270, ads 271–276, with versos of
pp. 26–268 paginated but otherwise blank. Leather spine and corners, cloth
sides.

Preface dated 15 June 1885 at end, p. 6. Deposited 6 Aug. 1885. Listed in PW 15
Aug. 1885 at $5. A copy at MnU received 21 Aug. 1885.

References: NUC (NC 0186085) and OCLC (2368599, 81409447, 65843511, and
for microform 77419777, 85746681, 9343746).

Copies seen: CtY; DLC (deposit copy); KU; NN (rebound); MnU; MWA; ViU
(rebound, lacking pp. [7]-21).

63+. Supplement To Caspar's Directory of Antiquarian and Second-hand
Booksellers of the U. S. Additions, Changes And Corrections Up To January 1,
1887. Furnished Gratuitously to every Subscriber to this Directory….

[Milwaukee: C. N. Caspar, 1887]

[i], bl. [ii], [1] 2–12 [13–14]. Stitched, unbound.

"Note," p. [i], dated Jan. 1887 at end.

References: OCLC (166587567 and 57210684).

Copies seen: MWA; NN (bound into no. 63).

James Clegg (Rochdale UK), 1888–1894

The first volume in this series, entitled Directory of Second-Hand Booksellers and
published for the editor (Arthur Gyles) in Nottingham in 1886, does not include
North American bookstores. With the 1899 volume, the list of bookstores was
expanded to include dealers in both new and second-hand books (see nos. 32 to
36 above).

64. The Directory of Second-hand Booksellers and List of Public Libraries, Brit-
ish and Foreign. Edited By James Clegg. [Entered at Stationers' Hall.]

Rochdale: Printed And Published By James Clegg, Wet Rake. London:
Elliot Stock, 62, Paternoster Row, E.C. New York: Westermann & Co.,
838, Broadway. Paris: H. Welter, 59, Rue Bonaparte. Leipzig: G. Hedeler,
"Export Journal" Office. MDCCCLXXXVIII.

[i–iii] iv [v–vi] vii–viii, [1] 2–112, ads 1–51, with additional ads throughout.
Rear endpaper, printed with ads, included in pagination. Cloth.

Prints a list of second-hand booksellers in "Canada," p. 31, and the "United
States," pp. 31–39, with "Addenda," p. 110, and "Corrigenda," p. 111.

"Preface," pp. [iii]-iv, dated at end 31 Aug. 1888.

Copy seen: TxU.

65. The Directory of Second-hand Booksellers, and List of Public Libraries,
British and Foreign. Edited By James Clegg. [Entered at Stationers' Hall.]

Rochdale: Printed And Published By James Clegg, Wet Rake. London:
Elliot Stock, 62, Paternoster Row, E.C. New York, Chicago, Washington:
Brentano's. Paris: H. Welter, 59, Rue Bonaparte. Leipzig: G. Hedeler,
"Export Journal" Office. [Leipzig signified by double apostrophes] Welter &
Co., Kœnigsstrasse 8. MDCCCXCI.

ads [i–ii], [i], ad [ii], [iii] iv [v] vi [vii] viii–x, [1–3] 4–308, ads 1–48, with
additional ads throughout. Cloth.

Prints a list of second-hand booksellers in "Canada," pp. 43–44, and the "United
States," pp. 44–69.

"Preface," pp. [iii]-iv, dated 14 March 1891 at end.

Copies seen: CtY; MBW.

66. The International Directory Of Second-hand Booksellers And Bibliophile's
Manual, Including Lists Of The Public Libraries of the World; Publishers, Book
Collectors, Learned Societies And Institutions, Theological Colleges Burns
Clubs, &c. Edited By James Clegg. [Entered At Stationers' Hall.]

Rochdale: Printed And Published By James Clegg, Aldine Press. London:
Elliot Stock, 62, Paternoster Row, E.C. New York: John Anderson, Junior,
99, Nassau Street. Paris: Librairie Neal, 248, Rue De Rivoli. Leipzig: Geo.
Hedeler, "Export Journal" Office. 1894.

ad [i], [ii–iii], ad [iv], [i], ad [ii], [iii] iv [v] vi [vii] viii [ix] x–xii, [1] 2–288, ads
1–51, with additional ads throughout. Rear endpaper, printed with ads, included
in pagination. Slip with "Latest Corrections." tipped to p. [1]. Cloth.

Prints a list of second-hand booksellers in "Canada," pp. 53–55, and the "United
States," pp. 55–83; see also "Additions and Changes," p. x.

"Preface," pp. [iii]-iv, dated at end 31 Oct. 1894.

Copy seen: NNGr.

Miscellaneous Directories of Second-Hand Book Stores, 1940–1949

67. The Dealer's Index (A Directory of Used Book Dealers and their Specialties,
with a Classified Directory of Specialty Publishers, and a Brief Glossary of Com-
mon Book Terms.) Compiled By Farrell C. Toombs and Richard P. Adair

American Readers Congress 1369 East Fifty-Seventh Street Chicago, Illinois
[©1940]

[i–viii], [1] 2–71, bl. [72], with inserted blue paper dividers. Individual leaves,
spiral bound?

Prints a "List of dealers," pp. [1]-34, with addenda, p. 35.

"Introduction" dated 1 Feb. 1940 at end, p. [viii]. Deposited 21 March 1940.

Copy seen: DLC (deposit copy, rebound).

68. The O. P. Market A Subject Directory To The Specialties Of The Out-Of-
Print Book Trade Compiled by Scott Adams

R. R. Bowker Co., New York 1943 [1944] [1945]

[i–ii] iii–v, bl. [vi], vii, bl. [viii], 1–120 pp.

Prints a "Directory of Dealers," pp. 68–119.

Published in four forms:

A: First printing, first state. As above, with title page dated 1943 and only 120pp.
Cloth.

B: First printing, second state. Title page dated 1943, but with supplement, paged
[121] 122–136 and printed on different paper stock (see no. 68+), inserted at
end. Cloth.

C: Second printing. Title page dated 1944 and supplement, paged [121] 122–136,
printed as part of the whole. Printed paper wrapper.

D: Third printing. Title page dated 1945 and supplement, paged [121] 122–136,
printed as part of the whole. Printed paper wrapper.

Deposited (form B) 19 Nov. 1943 and (form C) 13 Nov. 1944. Listed with 127pp.
in PW 20 Nov. 1943 and again with 143pp. in PW 18 Nov. 1943, both at $2.50.
Copies (form A) received at NNC 14 Jan. 1944 and at NjP 18 Jan. 1944.

References: OCLC (2859153, 4376603, 20143546, 36616840, 221110103).

Copies seen: CtY (form A); NNC (form A); MnHi (form A); NjP (form A)l MH
(form B); DLC (two deposit copies, forms B & C); TxU (form C); MnU (form D);
ViU (form D).

68+. Supplement To Directory Of Booksellers' Specialties….

[n.p., n.d.; New York, 1943?]

[121] 122–136. Unprinted gray paper wrapper?

Copies seen: CtY; NjP (lacking wrapper, tipped into no. 68 above).

69. Market Guide for Old Books

[D. R. MacGregor Bookseller 2643 G Street San Diego, 2, Calif.] [©1948]

Cover-title, with imprint taken from foot of p. [1].

16 leaves, unpaged. Printed paper wrapper.

Table 1. Directories of general bookstores

                                                                                                           

	Hannegan	Roorbach	ALG	Bartlett	NY Trade Sale Assn	Dingman	Office of PW	Farley	Geyer	Caspar	Industrial Info. Co.	Clegg	Wilson	Bowker	The Librarian
1854	1
1859		2
1859–60			3
1860				4
1863					5
1867						6
1868						6+, 7
1869						8
1870						9
1879–80							10
1880								11
1882								12
1883								13
1884								14
1885								15
1886								16	20
1887								17	21
1888								18	22
1889									23	28
1889–90								19
1890									24
1891									25		29
1892									26
1893									27		30
1895											31
1899												32
1902													37
1903												33	38
1904													38+
1906												34	39
1907													40
1908													41
1909													42
1910												35	43
1912														44
1913														45
1914												36		46
1915														47
1919														48
1922														49
1925														50
1927															58
1928														51
1930															59
1932														52
1935														53
1936															60
1939														54
1940															61
1942														55
1946														56
1949														57
1950															62

Table 2. Directories of second-hand and anti-
quarian bookstores

                       

	Caspar	Clegg	Miscellaneous
1885	63
1887	63+
1888		64	3
1891		65
1894		66
1940			67
1943			68(A&B), 68+
1944			68(C)
1945			68(D)
1948			69
1949			70, 71

Deposited Nov. 4, 1948.

Copies seen: DLC (deposit copy); NN; ViU.

70. Market Guide for Old Books Number Two By D. R. MacGregor Compiler
of Market Guide No. 1 (A List of Subjects) 1949–50 One Thousand Authors Two
Hundred Seventy-Five Buyers

The Daroma Press San Diego, Calif [©1949]

[i–iv], 1–37, 37–43. Printed paper wrapper.

Prints a list of 284 "Buyers," pp. 31–43.

Reference: OCLC (25830865).

Copy seen: ViU.

71. Directory Of U. S. Dealers In Old and Rare Books 1949 Edition

Continental Book Company Marietta, Georgia 1949

[i–iii], ad [iv], 1–97, ads 98–100, with additional ads throughout. Printed paper
wrapper.

Reference: OCLC (8011778).

Copies seen: MnHi; NjP; NN.