I have received so much help from writers and friends in suggesting
the consideration of this or that book for inclusion in my list that
I regret to be unable to give individual credit. I have also used
research help in verifying literally thousands of details--dates of
publication, page numbers, spelling of names, etc. I am especially in
debt to my wife for help in so many directions that it would take too
much space to list them. My most obvious indebtedness is, of course,
to the bibliography, already mentioned, compiled for the Individualist
Book Shop of London. The anonymous introduction to that list (which
I have since found was written by W. H. Hutt) is so excellent and
informative that I have inserted it in full after this introduction of
my own.
Next to the Hutt bibliography, I owe most to the back files of the
_Book Review Digest_, sometimes making use of its summary of the theme
or contents of a book, as well as of its quotations from reviews.
I should have made more use of the multigraphed list of 100 titles
compiled by F. A. Harper, of the Foundation for Economic Education,
if my own list had not been virtually completed when I saw this
compilation.