John Galt Bibliography Title Page & Dedication A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WORKS OF JOHN GALT BY TIM SAUER [email protected] Current Edition, Oct. 2004 Guelph, Ont. CANADA 2004. @ Tim Sauer First edition Published in 1998 by Tim Sauer Reformatted for PDF by Romie Smith, Kathryn Harvey (2017) DEDICATED TO ALEX AND MARION FRIZZELL, Booksellers PEEBLES, Formerly of West Linton and Edinburgh. DEAR FRIENDS, TWO OF THE FINEST PEOPLE THAT I HAVE EVER KNOWN Alex Frizzell (1920 - 1996.) Marion Frizzell (1905 - 1998.) AND Douglas Dell Sauer (Sept.7, 1921 – June 1, 2004) My DAD! Contents John Galt Bibliography .............................................................................................................................. 1 Title Page & Dedication ......................................................................................................................... 1 Foreword .................................................................................................................................................. 3 NOTES - Abbreviations & Location Codes .................................................................................... 5 Abbreviations .................................................................................................................................. 5 Locations ......................................................................................................................................... 5 Introduction .............................................................................................................................................. 8 ARRANGEMENT ............................................................................................................................... 8 COLLATION, PAGINATION AND VARIANT ENTRIES ............................................................... 8 COPY CONDITION, RARITY ........................................................................................................... 9 BLACKWOOD STANDARD NOVELS .......................................................................................... 10 CRITERIA FOR INCLUSION, AND ORGANIZATION INTO TWO PARTS ............................ 11 BIBLIOGRAPHY - Part 1. Books - English ....................................................................................... 12 BIBLIOGRAPHY - Part 2. ................................................................................................................... 28 Books in Translation ........................................................................................................................ 28 Books Translated, Their Titles, and Language ............................................................................ 29 BIBLIOGRAPHY - Part 3. Items incorrectly attributed to Galt, or of questionable Galt authorship. ............................................................................................................................................. 32 BIBLIOGRAPHY - Part 4. Galt articles, essays, etc. published in a larger work........................ 36 BIBLIOGRAPHY - Part 5. Reviews, Biographies, dedications, etc. ............................................. 57 Reviews ............................................................................................................................................. 57 Biographical items on John Galt (in date, then author and title order) ..................................... 70 Books, pamphlets, theses, general (in date, then author and title order) ................................ 71 Letters about or to John Galt (in author and date order) ............................................................ 75 Foreword The following comments are a mixture of my experience on two research leaves, in 1994 and again in 2004. In 1978, after working at the University of Guelph for six years, I felt that I should read something by John Galt, the founder of the city. The first book that I read was the Annals of the Parish, and found it interesting enough to read his other Scottish novels. During this process, it became obvious that most of his works were not available in anything but the first editions, and despite the existence of two sets called the Works of John Galt, they only contained seven of the novels. Titles such as The Spaewife, Southennan, and Rothelan seemed to be readable only if you could get access to the first editions, which in our Library meant no home or bus reading as they were located in the Rare Book Room. This of course led to my own collecting of Galt's works, begun in 1982 with a first of "The Provost" purchased from Alex. Frizzell at West Linton. It was also obvious from reading Ian Gordon's "The Life of a Writer", that the bibliography of Galt's writing was rather incomplete, especially for the North American editions, and there were several titles that had never been located. Thus, the building of a collection became entwined with a desire to find and describe every edition of all of Galt's works. This bibliography is not the final result of that work. After twelve years, and a six month sabbatical in which my car's odometer jumped by 20,000 km., I have added significantly to the bibliographical knowledge of John Galt, but I am convinced that this publication will result in my being informed of several variant editions of titles such as Lawrie Todd, more variant printings of the American pirate editions of the novels, details of missing issue condition for those that are needed, and hopefully, location of some of the titles that have so far eluded me and others. In 2004, I had another research leave, primarily to digitize the bulk of Galt's books, and to totally redo and update the Bibliography. I am indebted to many people at Guelph Public Library, Special Collections at the University of Western Ontario, Duke University Library, the University of Guelph, The Thomas Fischer Library at the University of Toronto, The Lilly Library at Indiana University, and many others. My experience with getting digital images has been somewhat varied. Generally, in North America I could either take the images myself, at no cost, or the institution would provide the images at low cost. In the U.K., perhaps I have not contacted the correct people, as my limited experience was that digital images were a fairly expensive proposition, and there appeared to be a reluctance to allow me to do the digital photographing myself. I have also found it very difficult to convert microfilm images to digital, since I found no libraries with the equipment at all, let alone equipment that might be available to the public. I expect that this will change in the next few years, as it is an obvious alternative to re- purchase of large and expensive microfilm sets in digital format. although the added value of availability on the Internet may slow this option. My greatest thank you has to go to my employer, the University of Guelph, and particularly those members of the university community, past and present, who set up the possibility of extended research leaves for librarians in our "Terms and Conditions of Employment of Professional Librarians". To have the opportunity to continue to be paid while spending six months traveling around the U.K., Canada and the United States visiting libraries and looking at old books is truly a privilege which makes the years of struggling to get a few hours or a day to devote to the project seem like a distant nightmare. Walking out of a major research library after spending several hours looking at a score of Galt titles, and having solved a few of the bibliographical problems, gives me a "high" that is the same as hooking and landing a large fish. At the end of my leave in 2004, aside from the comments above from 1994, which are equally true today, is my gratitude for the opportunity to have had release time during my presidency of the University of Guelph Faculty Association, which created a trust fund that has allowed me to hire typists to create the text of the books, and also to cover costs of travel and very entensive computer related costs, from software purchases to large numbers of printer toner cartridges. The opportunity to spend eight months focussed on the huge task of digitizing fifty to sixty books, instead of evenings and weekends as it had been in the past five years when ten were accomplished, is an utter joy. The sense of personal accomplishment is quite overwhelming, and I look forward to early retirement in a few years, when this can be my full time occupation - But not limited to Galt. The opportunity to visit libraries was a rare chance to assess my profession from the user's point of view. I consciously tried not to announce who I was when I entered a library, and this gave me a good opportunity to see how my profession offers service. The largest generalization is that both U.S. and British libraries locate most of the first editions on the open shelves, compared to Canada where most are in a rare book collection. All of the national libraries that I used had closed stacks, and although all were professional and courteous, the Library of Congress easily stood out as having almost a "public library" attitude of access to information. To counter this, almost every item in their collection has been rebound, and in most cases the binding is oversewn, in cloth. In general, a closed stack library was no problem unless it was coupled with something like a limitation of three titles per retrieval. Indeed, the British system of shelving by press