Reprint Publishers

Some of these have value!

ALTEMUS – frequently put original copyright date on title page of reprints
AMS Press
AVENEL
BARNES & NOBLE
WALTER BLACK
BLAKISON
BONANZA Books
BOOK CLUB EDITIONS
• often have a depression (also called deboss, blind stamp) on the bottom of the right-hand corner of the back cover,
• book does not have a price on the dust jacket,
• Clipped corner on the DJ- typically on the lower corner of the front flap, and/or upper corner of the front flap
• Watch out for the BOMC (book of the month club) acronym on the flaps of book club dust jackets
• watch out for FEL on books and covers (First Edition Library), a club that makes facsimile first edition books
• Laid-in review slips or brochure
• five-digit code, typically black numbers in white background small box, which appears on the back of the dust jacket
BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH-CLUB – includes History Book Club, Quality Paperback Book Club, Money Book Club. Also indicated by a blind-stamped dot on the back cover.
A. L. BURT – Published from 1883 until 1937. In 1915 began buying reprint rights from other publishing houses. As a result, copies from the first printing of A.L. Burt’s edition of Tarzan of the Apes, the first novel in the series, are notably sought after by collectors. Also, published first US edition of P. G. Wodehouse Man with Two Left Feet
CASSELL (in the UK)
• John Cassell,
• Cassell, Petter & Galpin,
• Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Company
• Cassell and Company
P. F. COLLIER
DONOHUE
DOUBLEDAY – inferior quality, which includes: Literary Guild, Mystery Guild, Science Fiction Book Club
FIRST EDITION LIBRARY, a club that makes facsimile first edition books – usually come in slip cases and are reprints of famous books
FOLIO SOCIETY – but always nicely done, have many very expensive books
GARDEN CITY PUBLISHING
GOLDSMITH
GROSSET & DUNLAP (but also published Photoplay editions which are quite collectible), but also published first editions of the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys and Lone Ranger series; also Zane Grey The Redheaded Outfield and Other Stories
HERITAGE PRESS are book club editions that can have value; they publish reprints of the Limited Editions Club
HURST
KONECKY
LIMITED EDITION CLUB (LEC) are highly collectible. LEC books are printed in limited quantities, are signed and individually numbered, and can be of considerable value.
LITERARY GUILD – inferior quality, dust jackets duller than original publisher’s. Minus a dust jacket, always check the title page and spine of the book for the words “Literary Guild.”
MJF Books
MODERN LIBRARY
PETER PAUPER – after 1940 published reprints,  but before 1940 used a colophon
READERS’ UNION
SAALFIELD
SUN DIAL
TOWER
TRIANGLE
WORLD TOWER BOOKS – but not World Publishing Co. books