THE ANNUAL American Catalog [V.71 1909 CONTAINING A record under author, title, subject and series of all books recorded in The printers issuing books during the year; and a directory of booksellers NEW YORK OFFICE OF THE PUBLISHERS' WEEKLY 1910 Annual American Catalog: the Books of 1909, by author, title, A Directory of Booksellers in the principal towns in the United 575-639 PREFATORY NOTE. THE ANNUAL AMERICAN CATALOG for 1909 covers the extraordinary number of 10,900 books and includes approximately 30,000 entries recording these books by author, title, subject and series entry. The United States has reached a bock production now on a par with that of England, Germany and France, the other chief book producing countries, and the rapid increase of output makes it probable that within a few years it will exceed the book production of any other country. The phenomenal increase in recent years has made it impracticable to give full-title entry and descriptive annotations in the Publishers' Weekly for all books received or recorded and the Weekly Record of that Journai has therefore become a select representation instead of an approximately complete list, which latter is to be found in the reference lists printed monthly. Partly for this reason and partly because of the growing size of the ANNUAL AMERICAN CATALOG, the latter is this year and will hereafter be confined to the single alphabet which is comprehensive and as complete as an American trade bibliography can perhaps be made. It may be added that the reprinting for the full-title annotated list, as a separate feature of the American Catalog, has not met with sufficient support from the libraries and the booktrade to justify the considerable cost of annual cumulation and separate printing, while, on the other hand, the information can be found in the bound volumes of the Publishers' Weekly kept in many libraries, and indexed by date in the author entry of this short-title list. This list is founded on, and indeed cumulates the linotype entries of, the monthly lists of the Publishers' Weekly, which are intended to be fully comprehensive within their field. The list does not attempt to include importations of English books or books in foreign languages where the importation is of individual or few copies; but only importations of editions, small or large, with an American imprint. It does not undertake to include directories and similar publications, official publications unless of large general interest, or minor pamphlets. This volume contains, as usual, a directory, with street addresses in the larger cities, of all American publishers who have issued books during 1909, including printers and authors who have been publishers of their own books; and for the first time it includes a select list of representative booksellers in the principal towns of the United States and Canada. This new list, it is thought, will be of general usefulness, and of greater value because it is a select list, not attempting to include the several thousand newsstands, cigar stands, drugstores, etc., which sell periodicals and a few paper bound books. The new list has been carefully prepared with the help of travellers from several houses and it is believed that it will serve as the best basis for communicating directly with the retail booktrade throughout the country without waste of effort and expense. |