Numerical breakdown of publications in my collection by selected American astrological publishers by year, 1940-present
– 27 December 2012
Following a conversation earlier this evening with Donna Van Toen about the declining output of some American astrological publishers since the mid-1990s, I decided to use the ‘Find’ feature in MS Word to allow me to quickly compile some statistics about some of the well-known late 20th century American astrological publishers, based on the number of books they have printed each year that have found their way into my collection. This data set is somewhat skewed by the fact that in some cases I have later printings of works that were first published, I presume by the same publisher, between a few and 10-15 years earlier: notably of Martin Schulman’s ‘Karmic Astrology’ series of works. Nonetheless, I hope this data is historically interesting. I have presented it alphabetically by publisher.
Where the year skips, it means that there were no publications found in all years that have been jumped over.
By publisher: select American publishers:
ACS:
1982 – 1
1983 – 1
1984 – 6
1985 – 3
1986 – 2
1987 – 3
1988 – 7
1989 – 2
1991 – 1
1993 – 2
1994 – 4
1995 – 7
1996 – 7
1997 – 5
1998 – 1
1999 – 4
2000 – 1
2001 – 2
2002 – 1
2003 – 2
American Federation of Astrologers:
1969 – 1
1970 – 4
1971 – 4
1972 – 5
1974 – 8
1975 – 6
1976 – 8
1977 – 6
1978 – 6
1979 – 3
1980 – 6
1981 – 7
1982 – 4
1983 – 9
1984 – 9
1985 – 6
1986 – 15
1987 – 4
1988 – 21
1989 – 4
1990 – 16
1991 – 6
1992 – 11
1993 – 6
1994 – 5
1995 – 7
1996 – 9
1997 – 17
1998 – 5
1999 – 4
2000 – 4
2001 – 11
2003 – 22
2004 – 8
2005 – 5
2006 – 8
2008 – 7
2009 – 3
2010 – 5
2011 – 1
2012 – 1
Astrological Bureau:
1959 – 8
1970 – 5
1973 – 1
1974 – 2
1975 – 3
1979 – 1
Astro-Analytics:
1974 – 1
1975 – 1
1976 – 3
1977 – 8
1978 – 4
1979 – 5
1980 – 4
1984 – 1
CRCS:
1972 – 1
1975 – 1
1976 – 1
1978 – 2
1983 – 3
1984 – 1
1985 – 1
1986 – 1
1987 – 2
1988 – 1
1989 – 1
1990 – 1
1991 – 1
1992 – 1
1993 – 1
1996 – 3
1999 – 1
Llewellyn (1940-present)
1940 – 2
1941 – 2
1942 – 1
1943 – 2
1944 – 2
1945 – 1
1946 – 1
1947 – 1
1948 – 3
1950 – 3
1951 – 2
1954 – 1
1957 – 1
1962 – 1
1967 – 2
1968 – 1
1970 – 1
1971 – 1
1972 – 1
1973 – 1
1974 – 6
1975 – 5
1976 – 1
1977 – 1
1978 – 3
1986 – 2
1987 – 1
1988 – 4
1989 – 4
1990 – 7
1991 – 4
1992 – 4
1993 – 5
1994 – 6
1995 – 5
1996 – 1
1997 – 3
1998 – 3
1999 – 11
2000 – 6
2001 – 8
2002 – 5
2003 – 4
2004 – 8
2005 – 7
2006 – 6
2007 – 5
2008 – 4
2009 – 3
2010 – 2
2011 – 1
Para Research:
1975: 2
1976: 1
1977: 1
1978: 2
1981: 1
1985: 1
Seek-It Publishing Company:
1977: 1
1978: 1
1979: 1
1980: 2
1982: 2
1984: 2
1987: 1
1992: 1
1996: 1
1997: 1
1999: 1
2000: 1
2001: 1
2003: 1
2006: 1
2011: 1
Weiser:
1970 – 2
1973 – 1
1974 – 2
1975 – 1
1977 – 1
1978 – 2
1979 – 2
1980 – 2
1982 – 1
1983 – 2
1984 – 1
1986 – 1
1989 – 3
1991 – 1
1992 – 1
1993 – 2
1994 – 6
1995 – 5
1996 – 5
1997 – 5
1998 – 7
1999 – 1
2000 – 10
2001 – 1
2002 – 2
2003 – 5
2004 – 3
2008 – 2
Whitford / Schiffer:
1981: 1
1982: 1
1984: 1
1987: 3
1988: 5
1989: 3
1990: 2
1991: 1
1992: 1
1996: 1
2002: 1
2011: 1
2012: 2 [NB: One of these bears the date 2011 but was actually brought to market in 2012]
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