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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
During the course of thirty-five years, my study of book-jackets has benefited
from the help of many individuals. To begin with, I want to record
profound gratitude to the late Richard Colles Johnson, who faithfully over
many years contributed significant pieces of information (as he did for so
many other projects of mine as well). And I am delighted to indicate the great
importance to me of the friendship and support of the late John Carter, the
pioneer student of book-jackets (as of many other aspects of nineteenth- and
twentieth-century books). I also am deeply appreciative of the thoughtful
care given to my work by David L. Vander Meulen, editor of Studies in
Bibliography, and by his assistant, Elizabeth Lynch.
For their repeated contributions of details about early jackets, I wish to
express my gratitude to the following (some of whom are now deceased):
Jacob Blanck, Carey S. Bliss, Charles B. Gullans, Harrison Hayford, Peter B.
Howard, Herbert Kleist, John S. Van E. Kohn, Edward S. Levin, Kevin Mac
Donnell, Sandy Malcolm, Charles W. Mann, P. H. Muir, Michael Papantonio,
David A. Randall, Roger E. Stoddard, and Michael Zinman.
For generous assistance of many kinds to my book-jacket research, I also
wish to thank the following (some of whom are now deceased): Jeffrey Akard,
Brian Alderson, Jerome E. Anderson, Richard S. Barnes, George M. Barringer,
Terry Belanger, John Bidwell, William H. Bond, Richard Cady, William R.
Cagle, Peggy Christian, Philip Cohen, Joan St. C. Crane, Timothy d'Arch
Smith, Christian Y. Dupont, Douglas C. Ewing, Anthony Fair, Donald C.
Gallup, Mrs. C. M. Gee, William M. Gibson, Franklin Gilliam, Mark
Godburn, Frederick R. Goff, Thomas Goldwasser, Selwyn H. Goodacre,
George T. Goodspeed, Dan Gregory, Peter E. Hanff, Jack and Joyce Hanrahan,
Maxwell Hunley, Thomas J. Joyce, Priscilla Juvelis, Dean H. Keller,
Ken Leach, Barbara McCrimmon. Leslie McGrath, David McKitterick, A. L.
McLaughlin, David Magee, A. N. L. Munby, David L. O'Neal, J. Fernando
Peña, Anthony Rota, Robert Rulon-Miller, William H. Runge, Philip
Shelley, Victoria Steele, Mark Stirling, Lola L. Szladits, Terence Tanner,
Bruce Tober, Page Thomas, Michael Turner, David L. Vander Meulen,
Robert L. Volz, Alexander D. Wainwright, Rowan Watson, Burton Weiss,
Brooke Whiting, Michael Winship, David Yerkes, and Jake Zeitlin.
Finally, I am indebted to Philip Errington and Warwick Gould for inviting
me to read an abridged version of this essay at the opening of a conference
on "Dust-Jackets: The Fate and State of Removable Dust-Jackets,"
sponsored by the Institute of English Studies, University of London, on
19-20 September 2005.
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