In the body of the document, most publishers are indicated by an abbreviated form. For British publications, the abbreviations used are:
BBC | British Broadcasting Company, London |
BBC Publications | BBC Publications, London |
Cape | Jonathan Cape, London |
Doubleday (London) | Doubleday, London |
Elm Tree | Elm Tree, London |
Fontana Lions | Fontana Lions, Collins, London |
Gollancz | Victor Gollancz, London |
Grasshopper (London) | "A Grasshopper book" - Abelard Schuman |
Henry | Ian Henry, Hornchurch |
Knight | Knight, Hodder and Stoughton, Sevenoaks |
Macmillan | Macmillan, London |
Methuen | Methuen (?now Associated Book Publishers?) |
NEL | New English Library, London |
OUP | Oxford University Press |
Panther | Panther, London |
Penguin | Penguin Books, Harmondsworth |
Prior | George Prior Publishers, London (note - a subsidiary of GK Hall) |
Puffin | Puffin Books, part of Penguin Books |
Sphere | Sphere, London |
Topliner | "A Topliner paperback" - Macmillan |
Ulverscroft | Ulverscroft, Leicester |
Unicorn | Unicorn books, Hutchinson |
For American publishers, the abbreviations used are:
Abelard Schuman | Abelard Schuman, New York |
Ace | Ace books, New York |
Delacorte | Delacorte Press, New York |
Dell | Dell Publishing Co_., New York |
Doubleday | Doubleday, Garden City (NY) |
GK Hall | GK Hall and Co_., Boston, Mass |
Harper | Harper, New York |
Holt Rinehart | Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York |
Scribner | Scribner, New York |
Stemmer | Stemmer House, Owings Mills, MD |
Viking | Viking Press, New York |
WSP | Washington Square Pr. Inc. (a division of Simon _& Schuster, Inc), New York |
For German (FDR) and Swiss publishers:
Oetinger | Friedrich Oetinger, Hamburg |
Heyne | Heyne, Mu%"nchen |
Bertelsmann | Bertelsmann-Jugenbucherverlag, Gu%"tersloh |
Arena | Arena, Wu%"rzburg |
Diogenes | Diogenes-Verlag, Zu%"rich (ie Switzerland) |
DTV | Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Mu%"nchen |
Herbig | Herbig, Mu%"nchen and Berlin |
Klett | Klett, Ernst, Verlage, Stuttgart |
Note: Books published by Puffin, Penguin, Panther, Sphere, Fontana Lions, Knight are all paperback
Transcribed from the original Digital Runoff sources...
Author:
Tibs
(tibs@tibsnjoan.co.uk)