Bibliographies
Members also brought annotated bibliographies of
specific authors and genres which are helpful for their respective collections.
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| Bibliographia Oziana |
Hanff,
Peter E. and Douglas E. Greene. Bibliographia Oziana: A Concise Blbliographical
Checklist of the Oz Books by L. Frank Baum and His Successors. Berkley, MI: The International Wizard of Oz
Club, 1976. First edition. Contains photographs of all first-state
covers and many of the later covers of the books in this checklist; also
contains points of issue for identifying first editions. Revised and expanded editions of Bibliographia Oziana were published in
1988 and 2002.
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| The Detective Short Story |
Queen,
Ellery. The Detective Short Story: A Bibliography. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1942. First edition. The first bibliography of detective short
stories ever written.
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| Graham Greene bibliographies |
Wobbe, R.
A. Graham
Greene: A Bibliography and Guide to Research. New York: Garland Publishing, 1979. First edition. Contains detailed descriptions of Greene's published
works through 1978, including collation, pagination, and printing information
for each book.
Wise, Jon
and Mike Hill. The Works of Graham Greene: A Reader's Bibliography and Guide. New York: Continuum, 2012. First edition. Contains limited publishing information and
information about each title as it relates to Greene's life and writing career. Also includes Greene's contributions to
others' works, periodicals, letters written by Greene, published interviews, films,
and unpublished works. Exhaustive, though
incomplete, it spans the entirety of Greene's life and posthumously-published
works.
Resource Guides
The group also discussed the value of resource
guides for identifying first editions and points of issue, especially the
handiness of McBride's pocket guides.
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| McBride's pocket guides |
McBride,
Bill. A Pocket Guide to the Identification of First Editions, 7th revised
ed. Hartford, CT: McBride/Publisher,
2012. List the methods that
English-language publishers use to identify first editions of their books.
McBride,
Bill. Points of Issue: A Compendium of Points of Issue of Books by 19th-20th
Century Authors, 3rd ed. Hartford,
CT: McBride/Publisher, 1996. Identifies
points of issue (changes made in a book during the production of the first printing
of the first edition without that change being noted as a change elsewhere in
the book) in books and dust jackets.
