📚 Editing

Books with editing on their catalogue record, first published between 1918 and 2018, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject editing in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 7,166 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Elements of Style	William Strunk, Jr.	1918	43
	The technique of film editing	Karel Reisz	1953	32
	The Student Writer	Barbara Fine Clouse	1986	19
	Avid editing	Sam Kauffmann	2000	18
	The technique of film and video editing	Ken Dancyger	2002	16
	On film editing	Edward Dmytryk	1984	12
	Bryson's dictionary for writers and editors	Bill Bryson	1991	11
	Understanding and crafting the mix	William Moylan	2007	11
	Art of Editing in the Age of Convergence	Brian S. Brooks	2008	10
	Editing the day's news	George C. Bastian	1923	8
	The art of editing	Floyd K. Baskette	1971	8
	The Elements of Editing	Arthur Plotnik	1982	8
	Cutting rhythms	Karen Pearlman	2012	8
	Documentary Editing	Jacob Bricca	2017	8
	Revising prose	Richard A. Lanham	1979	7
	Write tight	William Brohaugh	1993	7
	Australian Editing Handbook	Elizabeth Flann	2003	7
	Fearless editing	Carolyn Dale	2004	7
	When the shooting stops ... the cutting begins	Ralph Rosenblum	1979	6
	The Art and Craft of Problem Solving	Paul Zeitz	1999	6
	The copyeditor's handbook	Amy Einsohn	2000	6
	The art of editing	Brian S. Brooks	2014	6
	Film and Video Editing Theory	Michael Frierson	2018	6
	The craft of revision	Donald Morison Murray	1991	5
	In the blink of an eye	Walter Murch	1992	5
	Thinking like a writer	Stephen V. Armstrong	1992	5
	The technique of film and video editing	Ken Dancyger	1993	5
	Editors on editing	Gerald Gross	1962	4
	The film editing room handbook	Norman Hollyn	1984	4
	Proofreading & Editing Precision :	Ellis Jones	1990	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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