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)