May 2007

wfzimmerman's review: "Rogak is a major supplier of instant books to the publishing industry. "
Andrews McMeel Publishing (2005), Hardcover, 160 pages

wfzimmerman's review: "I have this book because it has George R.R. Martin's first "Dunk and Egg" story."
Voyager (2003), Hardcover, 400 pages

wfzimmerman's review: "A salutary antidote to the Geraldo Rivera school of war reporting, written by a self-described and very human "coward." This would be in a top 10 of books on war reporting -- I'd definitely assign this right along with Ernie Pyle!"
Atlantic Monthly Press (2005), Hardcover, 240 pages

wfzimmerman's review: "One terrific science fiction idea in here: the cloned blue sheep in the form of a woman with curly hair."
Tor Books (2006), Hardcover, 400 pages

wfzimmerman's review: "Of interest for fans of THE DA VINCI CODE and those skeptical of large, well funded, secretive, conservative, hierarchical religious organizations. (Whatever for?)"
St. Martin's Griffin (2006), Paperback, 512 pages

wfzimmerman's review: "Hyped, but disappointing. "
HarperCollins (2006), Hardcover, 432 pages

wfzimmerman's review: "Scalzi's very best so far. Special forces all the way."
Tor Books (2006), Hardcover, 320 pages

wfzimmerman's review: "Some terrific case studies (Greenland, Iceland), but a surprising lack of concern for scale makes the generalizations highly questionable."
Penguin (Non-Classics) (2005), Paperback, 592 pages

First Editions Guide

FIRST EDITIONS: A GUIDE TO IDENTIFICATION. Statements of selected North American, British Commonwealth, and Irish publishers on their methods of designating first editions. FOURTH EDITION. Edited by Edward N. Zempel and Linda A. Verkler. 680 pages. 6″ x 9″. Acid-free paper. Hardcover. ISBN 0-930358-18-X. $60.00. Postage for US delivery is $3.50, $1 for each additional book.

(Shipments outside the US, please click here to order.)

Now including statements from over 4,200 trade and academic publishers and publishers’ imprints, this new edition has been greatly expanded. More comprehensive, this fourth edition of “First Editions: A Guide to Identification” is the essential reference for book collectors, book dealers, book scouts, librarians, bibliographers, and scholars. “First editions, one knows, are tricky beasts. Zempel and Verkler, beating a path, presumably, for bibliographers and book collectors everywhere, do not set out to identify first `editions’ as such, but first `printings,’ or first `impressions’ of the first edition.” Antiquarian Book Monthly Review.

This updated and expanded edition of “First Editions: A Guide to Identification” provides a wide inventory of the first edition designation practices of nearly 4,200 trade and academic publishers and publishers’ imprints in the United States, the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

The publishers included range from the very large to the small. The publishers’ statements printed here are from the years 1928 to 2001

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wfzimmerman's review: "A good Word 2003 reference, superseded by Word 2007."
O'Reilly Media, Inc. (2005), Paperback, 208 pages