No effort has been made in the following list to give the price of any
book or to indicate whether or not it is still in print. Prices are
often changed; and books going out of print, or new editions of old
books, would soon make the latter information inaccurate. In nearly
all cases, however, I have given the number of pages in a book. Where
more than one edition exists, the number of pages should of course
be understood to refer merely to that of one of these editions. The
purpose of giving the number of pages is simply that the reader may
have a rough idea of the length of the book. Nothing is more unhelpful
or irritating, I have found, than a bibliography which does not enable
a reader to know whether a listed title refers to a pamphlet of a dozen
pages or a work in four volumes.
A short form of their name is used for all well-known publishers,
British as well as American. The city of publication is not given for
any American book unless the publishing house is small, or relatively
new, or not familiar to the book trade in general. The names of
foreign publishers (except prominent English publishers) are given in
full--accompanied, of course, by the city of publication.
The year of the original publication of a book is given in nearly all
cases, and sometimes the year of the latest or most accessible edition.
When a date appears immediately after the title, or _preceding_
the name of any specific publisher, it means the date of original
publication. When a date is given _after_ the name of a particular
publisher, it refers to the volume printed by that publisher. When two
editions are known to exist, both dates are usually given. Where more
than two editions exist, the word _etc._ is often inserted after the
original date in lieu of any attempt to list all editions. Wherever the
name of a publisher and a date of publication are enclosed in a common
parenthesis, it means that that particular edition is either the most
available or is recommended among numerous editions. Wherever a book
is available in both British and American editions, usually only the
American publisher is named, even if the book originally appeared in
England.
Wherever, as frequently happens, more than one title is listed by the
same author, the titles are not necessarily listed in the chronological
order of their appearance. Rather the effort has been made to list
and discuss first the work or works by that author which are most
important for the present bibliography, or which lend themselves most
conveniently to comment on the qualities and contribution of that
author. Occasional inconsistencies will be found in citing the same
author’s name. This usually happens when the author’s name is not
printed in a consistent form on the title pages of his various works.
PI at the end of a quoted descriptive comment on a book indicates
that the comment is quoted from _The Philosophy of Individualism: A
Bibliography_, the out-of-print pamphlet published in London in 1927
which is referred to earlier in this introduction. In all other cases
where comment is quoted, the name of the author, periodical, or other
source is spelled out.
All other abbreviations (such as _pp._ for _pages_) are those in common
use.