Reprinted and expanded from: The Antique Traders Book Collector's Price Guide. Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2003. A cursory guide to First Edition Identification. It is compact because of space limitations, and dealers of any size should consider one of the two books in the reference book section.

Antique Trader's First Edition Guide
What is a First Edition?

A general definition for a first edition is the first time that a written work appears in a separate cover. This is an elastic definition and can create some disagreement. To take an example:

Paso Por Aqui by Eugene Manlove Rhodes, is one of the most famous and sought after Western novels. Its first appearance was in the Saturday Evening Post in February of 1927. It was published as the second novel in Once in the Saddle by Houghton Mifflin shortly thereafter. It was republished by Houghton Mifflin in 1949 in The Best Novels and Short Stories of Eugene Manlove Rhodes. The first edition of Paso Por Aqui, by the definition above, is by the University of Oklahoma, in 1973. However, if you can find Once in the Saddle in the first printing, you have a book worth, depending on condition, from $500. to $1000. The University of Oklahoma "first" is worth from $25. to $50.

So, when you say, "first edition" you are basically talking about the first appearance of a piece of writing in book form. Ideally, you want the first printing, the first state, complete as it was issued (with errata slips, dust jacket etc.) This is important to the collector in the same way an original painting is important to an art collector. It represents the first appearance in the real world of the piece of writing.

While it can be said each publisher has a unique way of marking first editions, there are some basic methods:

1. The date on the title page matches the copyright date, and no additional printings are listed on the verso (copyright page).
2. The verso does not list additional printings.
3. "First Edition", "First Printing","First Impression", "First Issue" or a variation of these printed on the title page or verso.
4. "First Published (date)" or "Published (date)" on the verso
5. A colophon (publishers logo) printed on the title page, verso or at the end of the book.
6. A printers code, basically a line of numbers or letters printed on the verso, showing a "1" or an A at one end or the other, with certain variations (explanation follows the chart.) If the book has an ISBN number check this first.
   

There are also unique methods which are exclusive to a single publisher or only two or three publishers (explanation and list follows the chart.)

Publisher	1	2	3	4	5	Reprint Publisher
101 Productions		x
A.A.Wyn, Inc.	x
A & C Black LTD	before 1947		after 1947
A & C Black Limited				x
A.H. & A. W. Reed		x
A. Kroch & Son		x
Adam and Charles Black			x
A.C.McClurg & Co.				x
A.S.Barnes & Co. Inc,		x
A. L. Burt						x
A. R. Mowbray		x
ABC (All Books for Children)				x
Abelard-Schuman, Ltd.				x
Abington Press		x				x
Academic Press		x
Academy Chicago		x
Ace			x
Ace/Putnam		x
Acropolis Books		x
ACS		x
Adam Hilger		x
Adastra Press					x
Adirondack Mountain Club		x
Advocado Press		x
Ashanta Press		x
Airlife Publishing				x
Aivia Press			x
Alan Sutton				x
Alan Swallow, Publisher	x			x
Alan Wolfsy		x
Alaska Northwest		x
Alabatross Books			x
Alan R. Liss		x
Albert & Charles Boni		x
Albert and Charles Boni	x
Albert Whitman	x
Albyn Press				x
Aletheia Publishing			x
Alfred Publishing		x
Alfred A, Knopf Inc.	x	x	x
Alliance Book Corporation	x
ALICEJAMES Books		x
Allan Wingate				x
Allen A. Knoll		x
Allen D. Bragdon.		x
Allen Publishing		x		x
Alpha Beat Press		x
Altamount Press			x
Altermus						x
Alyson Publications			x
Amber Lane Press		x		x
American Bar Foundation		x
American Catholic Press		x
American Library Association		x
American Publishing Company	x	x
Amphoto		x
Anchorage Press		x
Ancient City Press			x
Anderson Press				x
Andrew Dakers				x
Andrews and McMeel			x
Andre Deutsch				x
Angus and Robertson				x
Antique Collector's Club			x	x
Antonson Publishing			x
Anvil Press		x
Aperture			x
Appletree Press		x
Applezaba Press		x
Aquarian Press				x
Arcadia House	x
Architectual Book Publishing		x
Architectual Press				x
Archway Press		x
Arco Publishing Co. Inc	x
Arden Press		x
Argus Books	x
Argus Book Shop		x
Ariel Press			x
Arion Press		x
Arizona Silhouettes	x
Arkham House		x
Arlen House				x
Arlington House		x
Art and Education Publishers				x
Art Institute of Chicago		x
Artabras			x
Arthur Baker				x
Arthur H. Clark		x
Asher-Gallant		x
Ashgrove Press				x
Ashmolean Museum	x	x
Ashton Scholastic		x
Aspen Publishers		x
Associated University Presses		x
Asylum Arts		x
Atheneum Publishers			x
Atlantic Monthly Press (after 1925);	x		x
Auckland University Press				x
Avalon Press				x
Ave Maria Press		x
Avenel						x
Avon			x
B.T.Batsford				x
B.W.Dodge & Company		x
B.W.Huebach		x
Baachus Press			x
Background Books				x
Bailey Bros. & Swinfin		x
Baker & Taylor		x
Baker House		x
Bancroft-Sage		x
Banner of Truth Trust				x
Banyan Books		x
Barlenmir House			x
Barn Owl Books				x
Barnard & Westwood		x
Barre Publishing Company Inc.		x
Barricade Books			x
Bartholomew Books		x
Basil Blackwell		x
Basil Blackwell and Mott (Basil Blackwell Limited)				x
Battery Press		x
Baylor University		x
BBC Books				x
Beach Holme			x
Beacon Press	x
Beautiful America			x
Beechhurst Press		x
Beehive Press		x
Behrman House		x
Being Publications		x
Ben Abramson	x
Bergh Publishing		x
Bergin & Garvey				x
Berkshire House			x
Bern Potter			x
Bernard Geis Associates			x
Bernard's LTD				x
Bess Press		x
Better Homes and Gardens			x
Bhaktivedanta Book Trust			x
Bicycle Books		x
Big Sky			x
Big Table			x
Birch Brook Press			x
Black Lace				x
Black Swan			x
Black Tie Press			x
Black's Reader's Service						x
Blackie & (and) Son		before 1957		after 1957
Blackwell Scientific		x
Blakiston						x
Blanford Press				x
Bloch Publishing		x
Bloodaxe Books				x
Blue Dove Press			x
Blue Ribbon Books						x
Blue Star						x
Blue Wind Press		x
Boa Editions			x
Bobbs-Merrill Company			x		Before 1936
The Bodley Head				x
Bolchazy-Carducci		x
Boni & Gaer Inc.	x	x
Boni & Liveright		x	fitfully
The Book Guild Limited		x		x
Books West Southwest	x
The Borgo Press			x
Bottom Dog Press		x
Boxwood Press		x
Boydell & Brewer				x
Boydell Press				x
Boyds Mills
Bracken Books						x
Bradt Publications			before 1989	after 1989
The Branden Press		x
Brentano's	before 1927		after 1927
Brewer & Warren	x	x
Brewer, Warren and Putnam	x	x
Brewin Books					x
Brick Row			x	x
Bridge	+ Code 1-10
British Academy		x
British Library				x
British Museum				x
British Museum Press				x
Broadside Press			x
Brockhampton Press		x
Brompton Books		x
Bronx County Historical Society		x
Brooke House		x
Brookings Institute		x
Brooklyn Botanic Garden		x
Brown, Son & Ferguson			x
Bruccoli Clark Layman			x
Bruce Humphries, Inc.	x				x
Bruce Publishing (Milwaukee, WI)		x
Bulfinch Press			x
Bull Run of Vermont		x
Burgess & Wickizer			x
Burke Publishing				x
Burning Cities		x
Burning Deck		x
Burns & Mac Eachern		x
Burns, Oates & Washbourne			After 1937	Before 1937
Bush Press			x
Butterworth & Co.		x
Butterworth-Heinemann				x
Butterworth Scientific				x
Butterworths				x
Butterworths PTY		x
C. & J. Temple				x
C.M.Clarke Publishing Co.		x
C. V. Mosby		x
C. W. Daniel				x
Caddo Gap		x
Cadmus Editions			x
Calder Publications			x
California Institute of Public Affairs		x
California State University Press		x
Cambridge University Press (UK & Australia)			x
Cambridge University Press (North America)				x
Camden House			x
Camelot			x
Cameron Associates	x
Camino E.E. & Book Co.		x
Canada Law Book		x
Canterbury University Press				x
Capra		x
Captain Fiddle			x
Caratzas Brothers		x
Carcanet New Press				x
Cardoza			x
Carnegie Mellon			x
Carolina Academic Press		x
Carolina Wren Press		x
Carolrhoda Books		x
Carriage House					x
Carpenter Press			x
Carstens		x
Cassell & Co.		before 1976		after 1976
Cassell LTD				x
Cassell Publishers/ PLC				x
Castalia Bookmakers		x
Castle Books		x		x
Catholic University Press of America		x
Causeway Press Limited			x
Cave Books		x
Caxton Printers		x
Cecil Palmer			x
Cedar Bay Press			x
Celestial Arts			x
Centaur Press LTD		x
Center for Afro-American Studies			x
Center for Japanese Studies		x
Center for Western Studies			x
Centerstream			x
Century (UK)				x
Century Benham				x
Century Company (US)	Fitfully
Century Hutchinson				x
Chapman & Hall		x
Charles Knight				x
Charles L. Webster and Company		x
Charles Scribner's Sons (before 1929)	before 1929	before 1929
Chariot			x
Charles Press		x
Charles River		x
Charles T. Branford		x
Charleton Press		x
Chaterson Limited	x
Chatham Press			x
Chatto & Windus		x
Cheever			x
Chelsea Green			x
Cherrytree Press				x
Chester R. Heck		x
Chicago Review			x
Chilton		x
China Books		x
Christian Classics				x
Christian Focus		x
Christopher-Gordon			x
Christopher Helm			x
Christopher Helm Publishing LTD		x
Christopher Johnson				x
Christopher Publishing House		x
Chronicle Books		x
Cicerone Press		x
Citadel Press		Before 1949 & after 1988	x
City Lights		x
Clarity Press		x
Clarkson N. Potter Inc.			x
Claude Kendall & Willoughby Sharp			x
Claude Kendall Inc.			x
Clearwater Publishing		x
Cleaver-Hume				x
Cliffhanger Press			x
Cloud, Inc		x
Cloudcap		x
Coffee House		x
Coldwater Press			x
Colin Smythe				x
Collier			x			Before 1989
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation		x
Columbia University	x	x
Commonwealth Press		x
Conari Press			x
Concordia		x
Conservatory of American Letters		x
Constable & Company				x
Co-Operative Union LTD				x
Copeland and Day		x
Copper Beech		x
Copper Canyon		x
Cork University Press				x
Cornell Maritime Press		x
Cornell University Press		x
Cornerstone		x
Cosmopolitan Book Corporation		x	after1927
Cottage Press			x
Cottage Publications		x
Council for British Archeology		x
Country Life LTD				x
Countryman Press		x
Covici-Friede		x	x
Covici-McGee			x
Coward, McCann and Geohegan		x	x
Coward-McCann Inc.		x	x		Before 1936
Creative Age Press Inc.		x
Creative Press	x
Cressrelles				x
Crossing Press		x
Crossroad/Continuum		x
Crossway Books (UK)			x
Crown Publishers	x	x
Culinary Arts			x
Cupples & Leon						x
Curbstone			x
Currency Press		x
Cypress Press			x
D. S. Brewer				x
Dalkey Archive			x
Dana-Estes		x
Dartmouth Publications		x
Darnell Corporation		x
Darton, Longman & Todd				x
David & Charles LTD		x
David & Charles PLC		x
David McKay Co. Inc.	x
David R. Godine			x
Davis-Poynter		x
DAW Books			x
Dawn Horse Press			x
Dee-Jay Publications				x
Delacorte Press			x
Dembner Books		x
Denlinger's		x
Dennis Dobson				x
Department of Primary Industries				x
Depth Charge			x
Deseret	x
DeVorss		x
Dharma		x
Dial Press			x
Dial Press (Lincoln MacVeagh)	x	x
Diana Press		x
Diane Publishing		x
Didier		x
Dietz Press	x
Dillon Press		x
Dimi Press			x
Discovery		x
Disney		x
Dodd Mead & Co.	x	x
Dodge Publishing Company			x
Dog Ear Press			x
Dolphin		x
Donning			x
Doral		x
Dorial			x
Dorling Kidersley		x
Dorrance & Co.			x
Dorsey Press			x
Doubleday & Co.			x
Doubleday Doran & Company			x
Doubleday Page & Company		x	x
Douglas West			x
Dover						x
Down Home			x
Downlander				x
Dreenan Press		x
Duell, Sloan and Pearce			x
Duffield & Co.	x	x	Fitfully
Duffield & Green	x	x	x
Duke University	x
Dumbarton Oaks		x
Dunster House Bookshop	x	x
Dustbooks			x
E. M. Hale		x
E.P.Dutton & Co. Inc.		x	x
Eagle's View			x
Eakin Press			x
Earth Magic			x
East Woods Press			x
Eastern Press		x
Eaton & Mains		x
Ebury Press				x
Ecco Press			x
Eclipse		x
Eden Press			x
Eden Publishing		x
Edgar Rice Burroughs			x
Edinburgh University Press				x
Edmund Ward		x
Educational Technology			x
Edward Arnold		x
Edward J. Clode Inc.	x	x
Eighth Mountain			x
Eland Books						x
Eldon Press				x
Elkin Matthews		x
Ellicott Press		x
Elliot Right Way		x
Elliot Stock	x
ELM Publications				x
Emerson Books		x
Empty Bowl		x
Ensign Press		x
Enterprise Publications		x
Entwhistle Books			x
EPM Publications			x
Epworth Press			x
Equinox Cooperative Press	x
Eric Partridge LTD		x	x
Ernest Benn	x			x
Essex Institute		x
ETC Publications		x
Europa			x
Evans Brothers				x
Evanston		x
Eveleigh Nash and Grayson				x
Eyre & Spottiswoode				x
F. S. Crofts			x
F.Tennyson Neeley		x
Faber & Faber				x
Faber & Gwyer				x
Fabian Society		x
Fairchild Books		x		x
Falcon Press				x
Falmouth Publishing House, Inc.	x
Famedram		x
Fantasy Press
Fantasy Publishing			x
Far Corner			x	x
Farrar & Rinehart Inc.			x		x
Farrar Straus & Cudahy			x		x
Farrar Straus and Giroux			x		x
Farrar Straus			x		x
Feminist Press			x
Fenland Press
Feral House			x
Fernhurst				x
Fiction Collective			x
Fiction Library						x
Fields, Osgood & Co.		x
The Figures		x
Firebird Books				x
Fithian Press		x
Fjord Press			x
Fleming H. Revell Company		x
Flyleaf Press		x
Focal Press				x
Follet Publishing Company			x
Fordham University		x	x
Forest Press	x
Forum		x
Forward Movement		x
Four Seas Company	x
Four Walls Eight Windows			x
Frances Lincoln				After 1988
Frances P. Harper	x	x
Franciscan Press			x
Franciscan University Press		x
Frank Cass				x
Frank Maurice		x
Franklin Publishing		x
Franklin Watts Inc.		x	x
Frederic C. Beil			x	x
Frederick Fell Publishers				x
Frederick Muller				x
Frederick Stokes & Co.	x	x			x
Frederick Ungar		x
Free Spirit		x
Freedom Press		x
Fromm International			x
Funk & Wagnells Inc.				x
G. Bell & Sons				x
G. Howard Watt	x
G.P.Putnam's Sons	x	x
G.W.Carleton	x	x
G.W.Dillingham Company		x		x
G W Graphics		x
Gaff Press			x
Gambit			x
Gambling Times		x
Ganley			x
Gannet			x
Garamond Press		x
Garber			x
Gaslight		x	x
Gay & Hancock		x
Genealogical Publishing		x
Geoffrey Bles				x
Geoffrey Chapman				x
George Allen & Unwin				x
George Braziller Inc.			x
George H. Doran & Co.			x		x
George Harrap				x
George Newnes		x	x
George Routledge & Sons		x
George Routledge & Sons, Kegan Paul, Trench,Trubner		x
George Shumway			x
George W. Stewart Publisher Inc.	x
George Weidenfeld & Nicholson		x
Geographical Association		x
Gerald Duckworth				x
Gerald Howe				x
Gibbs Smith			x
Gill and Macmillan		x
Girl Scouts of America			x
Glade House			x
GLB Publishers			x
Gleniffer Press			x
Globe Pequot			x
Globe Press			x
Gnome Press			x
Gnomon Press			After 1991
Gold Eagle			x
Golden West		x
Golden West Historical Publications			x
Goldsmith						x
Gollehon			After 1995
Goose Lane		x
Gordon Fraser Gallery				x
Gower		x
Grafton		x		x
Granada		x		x
Grant Richards		x
Granta				x
Graphic Arts Center		x
Gray's		x
Grayson & Grayson				x
Graywolf				x
Great Ocean			x
Great Western		x
Grebner Books			x
Green Books			x
Greenberg, Publisher, Inc.	x	x
Greenfield Review			x
Greenlawn Press		x
Greenwich House						x
Greenwillow			x
Greenwood				x
Gresham Press		x
Greville Press				x
Grey Fox		x
Grey Seal				x
Grey Walls		x		x
Greystone Press			x
Grindstone Press		x
Grosset & Dunlap						x
Grossman		x
Grove Press			x
Gryphon			x
Guiness				x
Gulf Publishing		x
Gumbs & Thomas			x
H.C. Kinsey & Company Inc.	x	x
H.W.Wilson Company	x	x
Halcyon Press				x
Hale, Cushman & Flint		x
Hamish Hamilton				x
Hammond, Hammond & Co.		x
Hampshire Bookshop		x
Hancock House		x
Hanging Loose Press		x
Hannibal Books				x
Harcourt Brace etc.			x	x
Harper & Row			x
Harper Collins			x
Harper Collins PTY (Aust.)				x
Harper Collins LTD (N.Z.)				x
Harpswell			x
Harrap Ltd				x
Harrap Publishing				x
Harrison Smith & Robert Haas Inc.	x	x	x
Harrison Smith Inc.	x	x	x
Harry Cuff		x
Harvard Business School		x
Harvard University Press	x	x
Harvester Press				x
Harvey Miller		x
Hastings House Publishers, Inc.	x	Letterpress
Hawthorn			x
Haynes		x	x
Heat Press			x
Heath Cranton		x
Heimburger House			x
Heinemann New Zealand				x
Hellman, Williams		x
Hendrick-Long		x
Henkle-Yewdale		x
Henry Altemus		x
Henry Holt & Co. Inc.	x		x	x
Henry E. Huntington Library		x
Henry Schumann Inc.	x	x
Henry T. Coates & Co.				x
Her Majesty's Stationary Office				x
Herald Press (See unique)		x
Herbert Jenkins		before 1948	after 1948
Herbert Press				x
Herbert S. Stone & Co.		x
Hermes Publications			x
Hermitage		x
Hermitage House			x
High-Lonesome Books			x
Hill & Wang	x		x
Hill of Content				x
Hillman-Curl, Inc.	x
Historic New Orleans			x
H. Karnac LTD				x
Hobby Horse		x
Hodder & Stroughton				x
Hoffman Press		x
Hogarth Press	x	x
Holiday House, Inc.		1947-1988	After 1988
Hollis and Carter				x
Holmes and Meier		x
Holt Rinehart & Winston Inc.	x		x	x
Homestead		Guidebooks	x
Hoover Institution		x
Hope Publishing House		x
Horace Liveright Inc.	x		x
Horizon Press	x
Horn Book		x
Horwitz Grahame		x
Houghton Mifflin Australia				x
Houghton Mifflin Company				x
House of Anansi		x
Howard University		x
Howe Brothers		x
Howell-North		x
Howell Press			x
Howell Soskin Publishers	x
Hudson Hills			x
Hugh Evelyn				x
Hull University		x
Humanics Publishing			x
Humanities Press		x
Humanities Press International				x
Huntington Library		x
Hurst						x
Hurst & Blackett				x
Hutchinson				x
Hyperion		x
I. E. Clark		x
Ian Henry		x
Icarus Press		x
IDE House			x
Ignatius Press		x
Illuminated Way		x
Images Australia PTY		x
Impact		x
Indiana Historical Society		x
Indiana University Press	before 1974	after 1974
Industrial Press			x
Info Devil			x
Inform		x
Inner Traditions		x
Institute of Education				x
Institute of Jesuit Sources		Before 1993	After 1993
Institute of Psychological Research		x
Institute Chemical Engineers (UK)		x
Institute of Electrical Engineers (UK)		x
Intellect				x
Intermedia Press		x
International Publishers			x
International Universities Press		x
IOP Publishing		x
Iowa State University Press	x
IPD Enterprises				x
Irish Academic Press		x
Islamic Foundation		x
Island Press (Australia)		x
Island Press Cooperative		x
IT Publications	x
Italica Press				x
Ives Washburn Inc.	x	x
Ovor Nicholson & Watson			x
J.A.Allen & Co.		x
J.B.Lippencott Company			x	x
J. Garnet Miller				x
J. M. Dent & Sons		Before 1936		After 1936
J. Michael Pearson		x
J. Walter Black						x
J. Whittaker & Sons		x
Jacaranda Press		x
Jacaranda Wiley				x
James & James				x
James Duffy				x
James M. Heineman		x
James Nisbet		x	x
James Pott	x
James R. Osgood and Company		x
Jane's Information Group			x
Janus Press	x
Jargon		x
Jarolds		After 1948		Before 1948
Jefferson House
Jewish Publication Society	x		x
John C.Winston Co.	x
John Day		After 1937		Before 1937
John F. Blair			x
John Calder			x
John Hamilton		x
John Knox Press		x
John Lane Company		x
John Lane The Bodley Head LTD		Before 1928		After 1928
John Long		x
John Muir			x
John Murray	Before 1982	After 1982
John W. Luce & Company	x	x
John Westhouse				x
John Wiley & Sons		x
Johns Hopkins University Press	x	x
Jonathon Cape				x
Jonathon Cape and Robert Ballou		x		Fitfully
Jonathon Cape & Harrison Smith				x
Jonathon David			x
Jordan (s)		x
Joseph J. Binns			x
Journeyman Press				x
Judson Press		x
Julian Messner	x	x
Juniper Press		x
Junius-Vaughn			x
Kalimat Press			x
Kalmbach		x
Kanchenjunga			x
Kayak		x
KC Publications		x
Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., LTD		x
Kelsey St.		x
Kensington			x
Kent State University Press			x
Kevin Weldon & Associates PTY				x
Kindred		x
King's Crown Press		x
Kitchen Sink			x
Kivaki Press			x
Know Inc.			x
Kodansha International			x
L.C.Page & Co.			x	x
Lacis		x
Ladan			x
Lahontian Images			x
Lane Publishing			x
Lansdowne Press				x
Lantern Press, Inc.	x	x
Lapis Press			x
Larin			x
Latimer House				x
Lawrence and Wishart		x
Lawrence Hill			x
Lawrence J. Gomme		x
Lea		x
Lea & Febiger		x
Lee and Shepard		x		x
Legacy		x
Leicester University Press				x
Lennard Associates		x
Leo Cooper				x
Lerner Publications		x	x
Levite of Apache			x
Lewis Copeland Company				x
Leyland		x	x
Liberty Bell Press			x
Liberty Fund		x
Libra Press			x
Library of America			Compilations			x
Lightning Tree		x	Sporatic
Liguori			After 1994
Lillian Barber Press		x
Limelight			x			x
Lindsay Drummond				x
Literary Guild						x
Little Blue Books						x
Little Brown and Company		x	x
Little Hills Press PTY LTD		x
Liveright Publishing Corp.	x	x
Liverpool University Press		x
Livingston		x
Llewellyn			x
Log House		x
Lone Eagle				x
Longman, Inc.				x
Longman Cheshire PTY				x
Longmans Green & Co.		x	x
Longstreet House		x
Lord John Press			x
Loring & Mussey, Inc.	x		x
Lothrop Publishing Company	x	x
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. Inc.	x			x
Louise Corteau, Editrice		x
Louisiana State University Press	x	x
Lovatt Dickson				x
Luman Christi				x
Lund Humphries				x
Lutterworth				x
Lynne Rienner		x
M.Barrows & Company			x
M. S. Mill		x
Macaulay		x
MacDonald				x
MacFarland, Walter & Ross		x
MacLay & Associates			x
Macmillan Inc.		x	x
Macrae-Smith Company			x
Macy-Masius		x		x
Mansell				x
Marion Boyars Publishers, Inc.		x
Marion Boyars Publishers. LTD				x
Mark Zieseng			x
Martin Brian & O'Keefe LTD				x
Martin Secker & Warburg				After 1976
Marshall Jones Company	x
Martin Hopkinson	x	x		x
Maryland State Archives		x
Masquerade Books			x
Matson
Maurice Fridberg		x
Maupin House			x
Maxwell Droke		x
May Davenport			x
McClelland and Stewart		x
McClure Phillips & Co.		x		x
McDowell Obolensky	x
McGraw Hill Book Company	x		x
McGraw Hill Ryerson		x
McNally & Loftin, Publishers	x
McPhee Gribble PTY				x
McPherson			x
Medici Society		Child & Art		x
Melbourne University Press				x
Memphis State University		x
Mercat Press				x
Mercer University Press		x
Mercier Press		x
Meredith Books			x
Meridian Books		x
Meridonal		x
Meriwether			x
Merlin Books LTD				x
Merlin Press, Inc.		x
Merriam-Webster			x
Methuen				x
Metropolitan Museum of Art		x
Michael Haag			x
Michael Joseph				x
Michael Kesend			x
Michell Kennerly		x
Michigan State University Press		x
Middle Atlantic Press			x
Milestone				x
Mills & Boon				x
Minnesota Historical Society (after 1940)	x
Minton Balch & Co,		x
Missouri Archaelogical Press		x
MIT Press		x
MMB Music		x
Mockingbird Books			x
Modern Language Association		x
Modern Library						x
Modern Age Books		x
Moffat Yard and Company				x
Mojave		x
Monad Press			x
Montana Historical Society		x
Moody Press		After 1960
Moon Publications			x
Morehouse		x
Morehouse-Barlow		x
Morehouse-Graham		x
Morgan & Lester		x
Morgan & Morgan		x
Morton			x
Mosaic		x
Mosby Yearbook		x
Motorbooks				x
Mountain Press		x
Mountaineers Books			x
Moutin de Gruyter		x
Multimedia Publishing			x
Murray & McGee		x
Museum of Modern Art		x
Museum of New Mexico	Before 1981	After 1981
Museum Press	x
Mycroft & Moran		x
Mysterious Press			x
Mystery House		x
Mystic Seaport Museum			x
Nags Head Art			x
Naiad Press			x
National Foundation Press		x
National Library of Australia		x
National Library of Scotland				x
National Museums of Scotland		x
National Museum of Women in the Arts		x
National Woodlands			x
Nautical and Aviation		x
Naylor		x
Neale Publishing Company		x
Nelson, Foster & Scott			x
Nelson-Hall		x
Netherlandic Press		x
Neville-Spearman				x
New American Library				x
New Amsterdam			x
New Classics						x
New Dawn			x
New Directions		After 1976	After 1970
New England Cartographics			x
New England Press			After 1986
New English Library				x
New Harbinger		x
New Native Press			x
New Poets Series		x
New Republic		x
New South		x
New South Wales University Press		x
New Star			x
New View		x
New Woman's Press				x
New York Culture Review			x
New York Graphic Society			x
New York Zoetrope			x
Nine Muses		x
Noel Douglas				x
Nonesuch		x
Noonday			x
North Atlantic		x
North Point Press		Before 1988
North Star		x
Northland			After 1972
Northwestern University Press		x
Northwoods Press		x
Noyes, Platt & Company		x
Oak Knoll		x
Oakhill Press			x
Oakwood Press		x
Oasis Books				x
Oberlin College Press			x
O'Brien				x
Ocean View			x
Odyssey Press			x
O'Hara		x
Ohio State University Press	x
Ohio University Press	x	x
O'Laughlin			x
Old Vicarage				x
Oliver & Boyd			x
Oliver Durrell		x
OMF International				x
Omnibus Books				x
On Stream		x
Open Court		x
Open Hand			x
Open University Press				x
Orbis		x
Oregon Historical Press		x
Oregon State University Press		x
Oriel Press		x
O'Reilly and Associates		x
Orion				x
Otago		x
Outrider Press		x
Outrigger		x
Overlook Press			x
Oxford University Press	x		x
Oxmoor House		x	Art Books
Oyez		x
P & R		x
Pacific Books		x
Padre Productions		Before 1994	After 1994
Pan				Anthologies		x
Pan Macmillan PTY				x
Panjandrum			x
Pantheon Books, Inc.	x
Para Publishing		x
Paraclete Press		x
Paragon House			x
Parnassus			x
Pascal Covici		x	Fitfully
Passport Press		x
Paternoster		x
Pathfinder			x
Pathway Press		x
Patrice Press		x
Patrick Stephens Ltd.				x
Paul A. Struck			x
Paul Elek		x
Paul S. Eriksson		x
Payson & Clarke Ltd.	x	x
Pegasus Press				x
Pegasus Publishing			x
Pelican Publishing		x
Pelligrini and Cudahy	x
Pen Rose			x
Penguin (Australia)				x