Golden Guide
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Western Publishing
Western Publishing, also known as Western Printing and Lithographing Company was a Racine, Wisconsin firm responsible for publishing the Little Golden Books. Western Publishing also produced children's books and family-related entertainment products as Golden Books Family Entertainment...
and published under their "Golden Press" line, primarily a children's book imprint, beginning in 1949. Intended for primary and secondary school level readers, the series began as field guide
Field guide
A field guide is a book designed to help the reader identify wildlife or other objects of natural occurrence . It is generally designed to be brought into the 'field' or local area where such objects exist to help distinguish between similar objects...
s with such titles as Birds (1949), Flowers (1950), and Mammals (1955), and then expanded to a wider range of subjects, not intended as identification guides. These titles included Geology, Photography and Heart. Edited by Herbert S. Zim and Vera Webster, the books were written by experts in their field and illustrated in a simple straightforward style.
Zim would also later launch a related series called the Golden Field Guide
Golden Field Guide
The Golden Field Guides are a series of larger pocket-sized books that were created by Western Publishing and published under their "Golden Press" line , as a related series to the Golden Guides. Unlike the Golden Guides, the Field Guide went more in depth, being more aimed at the...
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An updated series was relaunched in 2001 as "Golden Guides by St. Martin's Press
St. Martin's Press
St. Martin's Press is a book publisher headquartered in the Flatiron Building in New York City. Currently, St. Martin's Press is one of the United States' largest publishers, bringing to the public some 700 titles a year under eight imprints, which include St. Martin's Press , St...
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List of Golden Guides
| Title | Author(s) | Date Published |
|---|---|---|
| Acadia National Park | Grant Sharpe | 1968 |
| American Antique Glass | Elizabeth Oliver | 1977 |
| Antiques | Ann Cole | 1967 |
| Architecture | Charles Rambert | 1969 |
| Bats Of The World | Gary Graham | 1994 |
| Bicycling | George Fichter & Keith Kingbay | 1972 |
| Bird Life | Stephen Kress | 1991 |
| Birds | Herbert Zim, & Ira Gabrielson | 1949 |
| Birds Of Europe | Bertel Bruun Bertel Bruun Bertel Bruun , was a naturalist, international conservationist and neurologist. Bruun wrote many books and was the co-author of The Golden Field Guide to Birds of North America first published in 1966... |
1967 |
| Botany | Taylor Alexander, R. Will Burnett, Zim | 1970 |
| Butterflies And Moths | Robert Mitchell, & Herbert Zim | 1962 |
| Cacti | Frank Venning | 1974 |
| Camping | Robert Smallman | 1965 |
| Casino Games | Bill Friedman | 1973 |
| Cats | George Fichter | 1973 |
| Chemistry Experiments | Robert Brent | 1969 |
| Dinosaurs | Eugene Gaffney Eugene S. Gaffney Eugene S. Gaffney is an American paleontologist and leading authority on the evolutionary history of turtles.-Biography:He graduated from Rutgers State University in 1965; and received his PhD in 1969 with a thesis on "The North American Baenoidea and the Cryptodire-Pleurodire Dichotomy" from... |
1990 |
| Ecology | Taylor Alexander, & George Fichter | 1973 |
| Endangered Animals | George Fichter | 1995 |
| Everglades National Park | Herbert Zim | 1960 |
| Evolution | Frank T. Rhodes | 1974 |
| Exotic Plants | Julia Morton | 1971 |
| Exploring Space | Mark Chartrand | 1991 |
| Families Of Birds | Oliver Austin | 1971 |
| Fishes | Herbert Zim, & Hurst Shoemaker | 1955 |
| Fishing | George Fichter, & Phil Francis | 1965 |
| Flowers | Herbert Zim, & Alexander Martin | 1950 |
| Flying | Aakash | 1971 |
| Fossils | Frank Rhodes, H. Zim & Paul Shaffer | 1962 |
| Gamebirds | Alexander Sprunt, & Zim | 1961 |
| Geology | Frank Rhodes | 1972 |
| Guns | Larry Koller | 1961 |
| Hallucinogenic Plants | Richard Schultes | 1976 |
| Heart | Sarah Riedman | 1974 |
| Herbs And Spices | Julia Morton | 1976 |
| Horses | Moira Duggan | 1972 |
| Indian Arts | Andrew Whiteford | 1970 |
| Insect Pests | George Fichter | 1966 |
| Insects | Herbert Zim, & Clarence Cottam | 1951 |
| Israel and The Holy Land | Rinna Samuel | 1967 |
| Italy | Paul Friedlander, & Joseph Brooks | 1955 |
| Kites | Wyatt Brummit | 1971 |
| Landforms | George Adams, & Jerome Wyckoff | 1971 |
| Light And Color | Clarence Rainwater | 1971 |
| Mammals | Zim & Hoffmeister | 1955 |
| Mexico | Herbert Zim | 1969 |
| Modern Painting | Michel Hoog | 1970 |
| Non-Flowering Plants | Floyd Shuttleworth, & Herbert Zim | 1967 |
| Oceanography | Gilbert Voss | 1972 |
| Orchids | Shuttleworth, Zim & Gordon Dillon | 1970 |
| Pacific Northwest | Herbert Zim, & Natt Dodge | 1959 |
| Painting - From Its Origins | Genevieve Monnier | 1969 |
| Painting, Gasser's Guide to | Henry Gasser | 1964 |
| Photography | Herbert Zim & R. Will Burnett | 1956 |
| Planets | Mark Chartrand | 1990 |
| Pond Life | George Reid | 1967 |
| Power Boats | Bill Wallace | 1961 |
| Reptiles and Amphibians | Herbert Zim & Hobart Smith | 1953 |
| Rocks And Minerals | Herbert Zim & Paul Shaffer | 1957 |
| Rocky Mountains | Herbert Zim | 1964 |
| Sailing | Bill Wallace | 1960 |
| Scuba Diving | Wheeler North | 1968 |
| Sculpture, An Introduction To | Guillaume Janneau & Simone Hoog | 1970 |
| Seashells Of The World | R. Tucker Abbott R. Tucker Abbott Robert Tucker Abbott was an American conchologist and malacologist . He was the author of more than 30 books on malacology, which have been translated into many languages.... |
1962 |
| Seashores | Herbert Zim & Lester Ingle | 1955 |
| Ski | Bill Wallace & Bob Beattie | 1966 |
| Sky Observer's Guide | R. Newton & M. Mayall & Jerome Wyckoff | 1965 |
| Snakes | Sarah Whittley | 2002 |
| Southeast, The American | Herbert Zim | 1960 |
| Southwest, The American | Natt Dodge & Zim | 1959 |
| Spiders & Their Kin | Herbert & Lorna Levi | 1968 |
| Sports Cars | Mortarini, Leopold & Waterfall | 1968 |
| Stars | Herbert Zim & Robert Baker | 1951 |
| Trees | Zim & A. Martin | 1952 |
| Tropical Fish | Bruce Halstead & Bonnie Landa | 1975 |
| Venomous Animals | Edmund Brodie, Jr. | 1989 |
| Washington D.C. | Robert Smallman | 1964 |
| Weather | Paul Lehr, R. Will Burnett & Zim | 1957 |
| Weeds | Alexander Martin | 1972 |
| Whales And Other Marine Mammals | George Fichter | 1990 |
| Wines | Henri Fluchère Henri Fluchère Henri Fluchère was a chairman of the Société Française Shakespeare and a notable literary critic. He played an important role in the establishment of an Elizabethan research centre in Aix-en-Provence and contributed to the Golden Guides series a volume on wines. He was also responsible for the... |
1973 |
| Yosemite | Douglass Hubbard | 1970 |
| Zoo Animals | Donald Hoffmeister | 1967 |
| Zoology | Burnett, Herbert Zim, & Harvey Fisher | 1958 |
External links
- Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press - Current list of Golden Guides