Odd question about "for further reading" references in back of book.

Cafe Society
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Sorry for the odd OP, but, I’m stymied.

I picked up at Borders today **The Holocaust Chronicle: A history in words in pictures **

Flipping through all 750+ pages (outstandingly done, btw), in the back there is a *Further Reading * section.

I’ve never seen a book listed this way:

*_______________. A History of the Holocaust. New York: Franklin Watts, 1982.

or

___________. The Origins of Totalitarianism. New York. Harcourt Brace Jovanich, 1973. *

There are many with the _______________. before the title, while every other book listed is by the author, then title. At first I thought it might be books that were anti-semite, but a basic Google search on the title does not lead me to beleive this at all.

Has anyone else ever seen this, the omission of an author’s name in a Further Reading section?

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I’m guessing it means the last author listed is also the author of the book that appears to have no author. So, if John Jones had authored three books on the history of the Straight Dope, it would look like this:

Jones, John. A History of the Straight Dope, Volume One.

_________, A History of the Straight Dope, Volume Two.

_________, A History of the Straight Dope, Volume Three.

3

That was my thought initially, but in the second book listed, it is by a woman called Hanna Arendt. ( She was at one time a mistress to a Nazi sympathizer, yet the space above this book credits her for another book.) Most of these titles are mid- fifties to late 90’s for publication, so it is not like it is ‘lost’ books of pre WW2.

Maybe it is a compliation of many authors or a soceity/club effort.

Where the hell is **Eve ** or **Ukelele Ike ** when we need them?

I shoulda titled this ** Is there a book publisher or something like that in the house? **

Nuts.

4

Wait, so you’re saying the page looks like this:

Arendt, Hanna, Book Number One. Publish information so on and so forth.
___________, Book Number Two That You Found Out Through Google Is Also By Hanna Arendt. Publishing information and so on and so forth.

?

5

KSO is right. If the book before is by Arendt, the book listed ------ under it is too. It’s common enough in bibliographies too.

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That’s right. It means the book is by the same author. This is the correct MLA format, and it appears in a book I own about MLA bibliography formats.

Example: This appears in the “for further reading” of Brian Walker’s The Comics Since 1945:

Schulz, Charles. Peanuts Jubilee. New York: Holt, Reinhart and Winston, 1975.
__________. You Don’t Look 35, Charlie Brown! New York: Holt, Reinhart and Winston, 1985.
__________. Around the World in 45 Years. Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1994.
__________.Peanuts: A Golden Celebration. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1999.

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that these are all books about Peanuts, and they were all written by Charles Schulz.