[PW] publishing history of dictionary

[Dennis Lien]

Alternately, the "main" AH dictionary, the big AMERICAN HERITAGE DICTIONARY
OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, has a version with a *1973* copyright -- I've got
it before me.  (The reverse of title page gives copyright dates of
"1969, 1970, 1971, 1973.")  But it's not a new edition, just a reprint
(with maybe minor typo corrections etc., or maybe not).  I spotchecked
it against our 1969 edition and not only is the pagination exactly the
same, but the random pages I compared start and end with
the same words etc.


Title   The American Heritage dictionary of the English language. William 
Morris, editor.
Published   [New York] American Heritage Pub. Co. [1973]
Description   L, 1550 p. illus. 29 cm.

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // d-lien at umn.edu


At 02:13 PM 5/8/2007, you wrote:
>In the event the patron was misremembering, it appears (according to a used
>bookseller at Amazon.com) that an American Heritage Dictionary published in
>1972 was the American Heritage School Dictionary with the publisher
>described as "American Heritage Publishing Co., and Houghton Mifflin."
>Jeanne Schramm , WLSC, W. Liberty, WV  26074
>
>
>On 5/7/07, Ann Borkin <aborkin at rahul.net> wrote:
> >
> > I have been asked to obtain an excerpt from the American Heritage
> > Dictionary, New College Edition, 1972.
> >
> > The "1972" is the hard part.  I don't find such a publication or RLIN or
> > WorldCat, and searches on the web and used book sales sites are making me
> > doubt that there ever was a New College Edition published (or copyrighted)
> > in 1972.
> >
> > Can anyone tell me of a source that would have the Houghton Mifflin
> > publishing history for this title?  I would like to determine for sure
> > whether or not I've been asked to get something that doesn't exist.
> >
> > Thanks for reading
> >
> > Ann Borkin
> > Associate Librarian
> > Thelen Reid & Priest LLP, San Francisco
> > 415-369-7093
> > aborkin at thelen.com
> >
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