Before there were computer programmers usurping perfectly fine words and forever altering their meanings, a style sheet was widely known as an institution's list of preferred English usage, especially when there is more than one way to write something. Part utilitarian, part philosophical, style sheets are meant to keep order, to address questions before they arise, and to promote an institution's values and public persona by providing uniformity to our complex and evolving language.

For instance, we at The Book Shop disallow abbreviations in our database in order to avoid preventable confusion and to foster clarity of meaning, with one exception: state abbreviations. Addresses, by the way, are one of the oldest reasons for the adoption of institutional style sheets. Is it 1234 St Mark St St 123 St Louis, or 1234 Saint Mark Street Suite 123 Saint Louis? And when there are any number of permutations, how can a company quickly, easily and thoroughly conduct a data search for that address in order to avoid costly duplication? How professional does it look for a company to send out a mailing several times to the same address? The answer, of course, is to adopt and stick to the usages itemized by a logical style sheet.

Please familiarize yourself with ours.

Author

Dick, Philip K

Green, Karen & Taormino, Tristan

Baugh, Albert C & Malone, Kemp & Brooke, Tucker & Sherburn, George & Chew, Samuel C

Bachman, Richard (Pseudonym Of Stephen King)

Finch, Casey (Translator)

Kafka, Franz (Translated By Harold Crud)

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No Titles (Reverend, Professor, Junior, Doctor, The Third)

No Other Punctuation

No Abbreviations (Not Wm, William; Not St James, Saint James)

Two Spaces Before Parentheses

Editor Need Not Be Parenthesized, As Of A Book Of Poetry

Title

Crustaceans Like Us - First Edition/First Printing

My Only Book - Signed By The Author - First Edition/First Printing

Properly Hating A Country That Both Sucks And Blows - First US Edition/First Printing

Slaughterhouse Of Love - An Intimate Portrait Of The Organic Smoker - First Softcover Edition/Second Printing

Flowers On Thursdays - Second Edition

Dissecting The Ones You Love - With CD-ROM - Fifth Edition

Gulliver's Travels - An Account Of The Four Voyages Into Several Remote Regions Of The World - Introduction By Jacques Barzun - First Edition Thus Issued/First Printing

Illustrator

Collating As Complete - Frontispiece And All Illustrations Present As Published

Collating As Complete - Frontispiece And All Black-And-White Plates And Illustrations Present As Published

Superbly Illustrated By Janice B Birthmark

Text And Illustrations Collating As Complete

Featuring The Photography Of Brownie Snapshot

Distinguished By One Hundred Forty-Five Full-Color & Black-And-White Reproductions

Lavishly Illustrated

Publisher

A Publication Of Appleton-Century-Crofts Inc

A Publication Of The Riverside Press By The Houghton Mifflin Company

A Longman Publication By Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers Inc

A Vintage Book By Random House

Place Of Publication

New York NY (Two spaces between City and State)

Paris France (Two spaces between City and Country)

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No Abbreviations (It's not St Paul, it's Saint Paul; It's not Mt Hope, it's Mount Hope)

Keywords

Fiction Science Fiction Fantasy Collection Far Future Short Stories Single Author

Fiction Novel Classics Literature Antebellum Lawyer Racism South

Women's Studies Feminism Criticism Equality Female Feminist Gender Gynography Liberation Neutral Neutrality Psychology Rights Sexism Sexist Social Science Sociology Theory Women Women's Lib

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Keywords are included in each book's listing to aid browsers in finding books that match their interests. The first word or phrase in every list of non-fiction keywords indicates the book's category, or the department in our physical store where the book would most logically be shelved. Similarly, the first word in every list of fiction keywords is fiction, followed by the book's designation as literature (general fiction) or genre.

All following keyword descriptors are in alphabetical order to assist searching and reference.

The exception to the alphabetical rule comes when the first keyword word or phrase is too broad, too generic, to give browser a sense of the book's true focus as in so many books about History, Science or Religion, for example: in such cases the first several keywords may appear as History Medieval Europe Annals Antiquity .... or Science Biology Crustaceans Atlantic Ocean Anatomy Biochemistry .... or Religion Theology Buddhism Ceremony Customs .... The first word or phrase, or category, in other words, may be broken down to its more specific discipline before the remaining contextual keywords are appended.

Edition

First Edition/First Printing

First Edition/Second Printing

First Edition hus Issued/First Printing

First US Edition/Later Printing

Second Edition

Third Edition

Binding

Gilt-Stamped Hardcover w/DJ

Large Quarto Softcover

Trade Paperback

Mass Market Paperback

Size = Width x Height (in quarter-inch increments)

6 1/4" x 9 1/2"

8 3/4" x 11 1/4"

Pages (@ Book Type)

1,273 Indexed Pages

381 Numbered Pages

218 Numbered Pages + Ads

Unpaginated - 144 Leaves