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who have read his "The Bibliographical 
Concepts of Issue and State" (Papers of the 
Bibliographical Society of America 69:17-66 
[1975]). One of Tanselle's more interesting 
accounts is of the project to collect Melville 
at the Newberry Library and the impor-
tance of "non-firsts" in that project. 

The new path to collectible books for 
Charles Gulland and John Espey is "Amer-
ican Trade Bindings and Their Designers, 
1880-1915." They include numerous cita-
tions to books that are examples of an indi-
vidual designer's work. As is the practice for 
all chapters in Collectible Books, the refer-
ences, footnotes, and further reading pro-
vide an excellent bibliography. 

William Todd in "Books in Series" gives 
Sir Walter Scott credit for the term series in 
the ·sense we now prefer but notes that 
Scott is collected for Scott, not because his 
works appeared in a series. 

Collectors interested in books in series 
would probably find much in common with 
those interested in "American Mass-Market 
Paperbacks." Thirty-three pages are re-
quired for Thomas Bonn to cover adequate-
ly this exciting area of collecting. The plates 
supplied for this chapter as well as the 
chapter on "American Trade Binding" add 
significantly to the worth of each . 

Collectible Books includes chapters on 
three very specialized areas-"Film Books," 
"Photography as Book Illustration," and 
"Book Catalogues." The editor's contribu-
tion is "Publishers' Imprints." The accounts 
of the Hogarth Press and Penguin imprints 
are particularly interesting. Peter Howard 
relates the experience of two booksellers 
(himself included) who issued separate cata-
logs on "American Fiction Since 1960." The 
response to those offerings is analyzed by 
Howard and enlarged upon, resulting in an 
excellent survey of current American fiction 
from the collector's viewpoint. To illustrate 
what he has written , Howard includes 
accounts of the approaches of four anony-
mous collectors in their pursuit of current 
fiction. 

Together, Book Collecting: A Modern 
Guide and Collectible Books: Some New 
Paths can serve as a state of the art for the 
field of book collecting. The excellent qual-
ity of certain chapters plus the outstanding 
bibliographical enhancements makes both 

Recent Publications I 275 

books quite useful and "collectible. "-Don 
Lanier, Northern Illinois University, 
DeKalb. 

Draper, James, and Brooks, James. Interior 
Design for Libraries. Chicago: American 
Library Assn., 1979. 152p. $8.50 LC 79-
16635. ISBN 0-8389-0282-0. 
A librarian and an interior designer 

(turned librarian) have produced a very 
basic book for individuals who are involved 
in their first project in remodeling, renova-
tion, or new building planning. It covers 
subjects, such as floor plans, traffic flow, 
use of color, fabrics, wall coverings, window 
treatment, floor coverings, storage, mer-
chandising, and some odds and ends of in-
formation. The authors suggest some inex-
pensive ways to handle problems of older 
buildings. 

Useful illustrations are placed throughout 
the book. Standard floor plan symbols are 
used. Drawings are acceptable, but photo.: 
graphs are poorly reproduced. Color would 
have been helpful, particularly in the sec-
tion that deals with this subject. However, 

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those two factors were probably responsible 
for keeping the cost of the book at a level 
affordable by those who really need it. A 
small basic glossary of design terms is in-
cluded. 

This book has some excellent information, 
but it is so basic that it can be recom-
mended only to people who have had no 
opportunity to work with library interiors, 
with the hope that it will inspire them to 
read further.-D. ]oleen Bock, Appalachian 
State University, Boone, North Carolina. 

U.S. Book Publishing Yearbook and Direc-
tory, 1979-80. White Plains, N.Y.: 
Knowledge Industry Publications, 1979. 
186p. $35. ISBN 0-914236-43-1. ISSN 
0193-6417. Distributed exclusively to li-
braries and institutions by Gale Research 
Co. 
This annual record seems to be a logical 

extension of the periodic reports and major 
market studies that have been produced by 
Knowledge Industry Publications for the 
book publishing industry. (See the review of 
Benjamin M. Compaine's The Book Indus-

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braries 40:384-86 (July 1979].) Current in-
formation on book publishing exists in a 
variety of scattered sources, so it is with 
anticipation that the librarian opens this 
new "one-source reference." 

The physical format is pleasing. Charts 
and tables are easily read and well spaced; 
boldface has been used effectively for head-
ings and emphasis within the text. The 
twenty sections are clearly defined, and 
sources of data are carefully noted. 

The volume begins with a month-by-
month chronology from January 1978 
through June 1979 of news items; mergers 
and acquisitions appear again in a separate 
listing. The expected statistical analysis of 
the book industry begins with an overall re-
view of receipts, sales, exports and imports, 
number of titles published, and book prices. 
Most charts are complete through 1978, and 
book prices are projected for 1979. The 
number of titles published for 1978 is a pre-
liminary figure, and no subject analysis is 
given. 

A section on the leading book publishers 
is followed by five-year financial summaries 
of forty-nine selected publicly owned pub-
lishers/printers. Another section, on cost 
factors, will be of major interest to librar-
ians because paper prices, book printer 
wages, and shipping rates are outlined. Also 
noteworthy is the section on market indica-
tors, education, libraries, retail bookstores, 
and direct-to-consumer sales. 

This issue also contains sections on inter-
national publishing, education in book pub-
lishing, best-sellers, notable subsidiary 
rights transactions, authors' advances and 
royalties, book trade associations, employ-
ment and salaries in book publishing, an . 
annotated bibliography of recent books on 
book publishing, and finally, a fifty-five-
page directory of 1,200 book publishers in 
the U.S. that lists name, address, phone 
number, and a very general indication of 
type of material published. 

This first issue pulls together many 
meaningful statistics, lists, and facts from a 
range of sources: Knowledge Industry Pub-
lications reports, publications of the U.S. 
Bureau of the Census, Department of Com-
merce, Publishers Weekly, Bowker Annual, 
etc. However, it is not yet a complete "one-