📚 Reference Works

Books with reference works on their catalogue record, first published between 1933 and 2004, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject reference works in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 4,067 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
	Something About the Author	Gale Group	1972	60
	American constitutional law	Alpheus Thomas Mason	1954	22
	Tolley's employment handbook	Elizabeth A. Slade	1978	21
	Which MBA?	George Bickerstaffe	1991	20
	Medical terminology	Genevieve Love Smith	1963	19
	Medical Terminology For Health Professions	Ann Ehrlich	1988	17
	The opera companion	George Whitney Martin	1961	14
	Picture researcher's handbook	Hilary Evans	1975	12
	This business of music	M. William Krasilovsky	1971	11
	Drug interactions	Ivan H. Stockley	1981	11
	Miller's Picture Price Guide	Judith Miller	1992	11
	Biopolymers	T. Koyama	2001	11
	Ainsworth & Bisby's dictionary of the fungi	G. C. Ainsworth	1961	8
	Passenger and Immigration Lists Index	P. William Filby	1978	8
	British hoverflies	Alan E. Stubbs	1983	7
	Pocket negotiator	Gavin Kennedy	1987	7
	Guitarmaking, tradition and technology	William R. Cumpiano	1985	6
	The factory shop guide	Gill Cutress	1987	6
	Encyclopedia of natural medicine	Michael T. Murray	1991	6
	Essentials of sociology	David B. Brinkerhoff	2004	6
	Jowitt's dictionary of English law	Jowitt, William Allen Jowitt Earl.	1977	5
	Cooking A to Z	Jane Horn	1988	5
	Milady's skin care and cosmetic ingredients dictionary	Natalia Michalun	1994	5
	Avery's drug treatment	Trevor M. Speight	1997	5
	Pharmacy	Joyce A. Generali	1997	5
	Black's law dictionary	Henry Campbell Black	1933	4
	Proverbs and sayings of Ireland	Seamus Cashman	1974	3
	The unorthodox book of Jewish records and lists	Allan Gould	1982	3
	Remove your hat, or, A bunch of carrots	Benjamin Péret	1986	3
	The encyclopedia of pregnancy and birth	Janet Balaskas	1987	3

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

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