Excerpt from The Annual American Catalog, 1905: Containing a Record, Under Author, Title, Subject and Series; Also, the Full Titles, With Descriptive Notes, of All Books Recorded in the Publishers' Weekly, 1905, Directory of Publishers, Etc The first alphabet of the present volume will be superseded by a cumulation into one alphabet for the five years of the second period, 1905-1909, and there will possibly be a cumulation at a mid-period, but not each year. The second alphabet. However, is arranged for permanent preservation, so that at the end of the five years the several Annual Catalogs may be taken apart, the short-title alphabets discarded, and the five full-title alphabets bound together to make the second volume of the new five-year period. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.