DICTIONARY OF NORTH AMERICAN HYMNOLOGY
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NORTH AMERICAN HYMNALS BY DENOMINATION
STONE / CAMPBELL MOVEMENT
INDEPENDENT CHRISTIAN CHURCHES / CHURCHES OF CHRIST
Locations by collection Please see “sites” document for contact persons, street addresses, telephone numbers, and email addresses.
ACU
Abilene Christian University
BC
Bethany College
BU
Brown University
CCU
Cincinnati Christian University
CHS
Cincinnati Historical Society
CTS
Christian Theological Seminary
DOCHS
Disciples of Christ Historical Society / FP = microfilm positive
DU
Drake University
ECS
Emmanuel Christian Seminary / FP = microfilm positive
FU
Faulkner University
FHU
Freed Hardeman University
GA
Gospel Advocate Publishing Company
HUGST
Harding University Graduate School of Theology
JU
Johnson University
KCU
Kentucky Christian University
LTS
Lexington Theological Seminary
LC
Library of Congress
LCU
Lincoln Christian University
LCU—FN = microfilm negative
LCU—FP = microfilm positive
LCU—X = photocopy
LCU—XB = photocopy bound
LCU—MPX = photocopy missing pages
LCU—MP = missing pages
LU
FM
MC
MU
NL
PTS
PU
JW
WRHS
WU
Lipscomb University
Dr. Forrest McCann
Milligan College
McKendree University
Newberry Library
Phillips Theological Seminary
Pepperdine University
John Wakefield
Western Reserve Historical Society
Wittenberg University
*Dr. McCann’s collection is listed in the original Dowling bibliography.
Year
1926
Title of hymnal
A Junior Hymnal, with Song Stories and
Worship Programs. Containing 33
hymns with stories. 12worship programs
and 113 general purpose songs. (192
pages)
Publisher
Standard Publishing Company
(Cincinnati)
Editors
Sturgis, J. E.
Martin, W. S., comps.
and eds.
Location
CTS /
DOCHS /
LCU
1926?
Junior hymn stories. Taken from “A Junior
Hymnal, with Song Stories and Worship
Programs. (65 pages)
Standard Publishing Company
(Cincinnati)
1927
The King’s Praise: a general-purpose song-book,
including selected Scripture readings. Fully
orchestrated for fifteen instruments. (261 songs)
Standard Publishing Company
(Cincinnati)
Sturgis, J. E.
Martin, W. S., comps.
and eds.
Sturgis, J. E., music
ed.
Lewis, Chas L.
Bellstedt, Herman,
orch.
----Jorgenson, E. L.
ACU /
CCU /
LCU
CCU /
DOCHS /
HUGST /
LCU
1927 Program: North American Christian Convention
1928 / Great Songs of the Church: a comprehensive
----Word and Work (Louisville)
CTS
ACU /
1925c
1929
1929?
1930
1930
1931
1932
1932
1933
collection of psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs
of the first rank, suitable for all services of the
Church. Alphabetically arranged. (450 songs)
(round notes) (See list of multiple editions at
1921 COC.)
Songs of Praises: a general purpose evangelistic
song book. (192 pages)
LCU
Standard Publishing Company
(Cincinnati)
Songs of Praises: a general purpose evangelistic
song book. Wallace Revival edition.
Standard Publishing Company
(Cincinnati)
More Songs for Little Singers. A worship service Standard Publishing Company
program for each month. (84 pages)
(Cincinnati)
Songs for Primary Children (See also 1958.) (66 Standard Publishing Company
songs)
(Cincinnati)
The World’s Best Christmas Carols. (76 songs)
The Standard Publishing Company
(Cincinnati)
Forty-eight Primary Worship Services: programs Standard Publishing Company
with songs, scriptures, stories, and things to do.
(Cincinnati)
(208 pages)
Praise and Victory Songs
Rodeheaver, Hall-Mack Co.
Favorite Hymns. An All-Purpose Songbook.
Printed in Round Notes Only (288 pages)
Standard Publishing Company
(Cincinnati)
McAfee, Arthur W.
Sturgis, J. E., comps.
McAfee, Arthur W.
Sturgis, J. E., comps.
Adair, Mildred
Lyons, Helen
Sturgis, J. E.
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CCU /
DOCHS /
LCU
LCU
CCU /
LCU
LCU
LCU
Kellogg, Caroline
LCU
Rodeheaver, Homer
Clark, Harry D.
Sturgis, J. E.
LCU
1935 / Great Songs of the Church: a comprehensive
1925c collection of psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs
Great Songs Press (Louisville)
Jorgenson, E. L.
CCU /
DOCHS /
ECS / JU /
LCU / JW
CTS / LCU
1935
Standard Publishing Company
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CCU / CTS
of the first rank, suitable for all services of the
Church. Alphabetically arranged. (Dowling: Top
of title page: “The alphabetical hymnal”.) (450
songs) (round notes) (See list of multiple
editions at 1921 COC.)
Songs of Fellowship (96 pages) (See also 1936.)
(Cincinnati)
J. W. Gaines Music Co.
Standard Publishing Company
(Cincinnati)
Standard Publishing Company
(Cincinnati)
Standard Publishing Foundation
(Cincinnati)
Gaines, J. W.
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/ DOCHS /
JU / LCU /
PTS
CCU
LCU
Jorgenson, E. L.
**
Standard Publishing Company
(Cincinnati)
-----
**
The Standard Publishing
Foundation (Cincinnati)
Jorgenson, E. L.,
comp.
Great Songs of the Church, number two The new
alphabetical hymnal: A Treasury of Six Hundred
Sacred Songs Suitable for All Services of the
Church (multiple editions)
Standard Publishing Company
(Cincinnati)
Jorgenson, E. L.,
comp.
CTS /
DOCHS /
LCU / LU /
MC / PTS /
PU / JW
ECS / PTS
/ JW
Great Songs of the Church, number two: The
new alphabetical hymnal. A treasury of six
hundred sacred songs suitable for all services.
(448 pages) (round notes) (See 1921 COC for
list of multiple editions.)
Great Songs of the Church, number two. The
new alphabetical hymnal. A treasury of six
hundred sacred songs suitable for all services of
the church. 30th edition (448 pages) (round
Great Songs Press (Louisville)
Jorgenson, E. L.,
comp.
DOCHS /
LCU
Standard Publishing Company
(Cincinnati)
Jorgenson, E. L.,
comp.
**
1936
1936
Revival Tidings
Songs of Fellowship (Dowling 1973 shows this
edition. Not shown in 1988.)
1937
Great Songs of the Church, number two. The
new alphabetical hymnal. A treasury of six
hundred sacred songs suitable for all services of
the church. (448 pages) (round notes) (See 1921
COC for list of multiple editions.) (Two editions
published by Standard. See adjacent publisher
column.)
The Guiding Star: a book of gospel songs (454
pages) (See also at 1942, 1943, 1946, and 1917
in COC.
Great Songs of the Church. The new alphabetical
hymnal. Number two. A Treasury of Six
Hundred Sacred Songs Suitable for All Services
of the Church
1937
1937
1937,
renew
al
1965
1940
1940 /
1937c
1942
notes) (See 1921 COC for list of multiple
editions.)
Favorite Hymns, no. 2, An all purpose song book
compiled from favorites of more than three
thousand workers in twenty-five hundred
churches. (288 pages)
“Mr. and Mrs.
Charles H. Richards
had ‘the entire
musical supervision
of the book.’”
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CCU /
DOCHS /
ECS / JU /
LCU
Standard Publishing Company
(Cincinnati)
-----
LCU
Standard Publishing Company
(Cincinnati)
Jorgenson, E. L.,
comp.
JU
CCU /
DOCHS /
JU / LCU /
MC / JW
CCU
Standard Publishing Company
(Cincinnati)
The Guiding Star: a book of gospel songs (454
pages) (See also at 1937, 1943, 1946, and 1917
in COC.
The Guiding Star: a book of gospel songs (454
pages) (See also at 1937, 1942, 1946, and 1917
in COC.
Great Songs of the Church, number two. The
new alphabetical hymnal. A treasury of six
hundred sacred songs suitable for all services of
the church. (448 pages) (shape notes) (See 1921
COC for list of multiple editions.)
Christian Hymns. (544 pages) (revised ed., 1947,
third printing. 1952, 4th printing, 1957, 5th
printing, 1965) (See also at 1965.)
Standard Publishing Company
(Cincinnati)
The Christian Foundation / The
North River Press
Berry, E. Wayne and
Tangeman,
Clementine Miller
1945
Christian Hymns, revised ed., 1947
Mitchell-Fleming
(Greenfield, IN)
ca.
1945
Let’s Sing: songs for children. (24 pages)
(Bound with Vacation Bible School Songs, by J.
B. Cox)
Selected Sacred Songs
Great Songs of the Church, number two. The
new alphabetical hymnal. A treasury of six
hundred sacred songs suitable for all services of
the church. 30th edition (448 pages) (round
notes) (See 1921 COC for list of multiple
J. B. Cox (Tampa, FL)
Berry, E. Wayne and
Tangeman,
Clementine Miller
Cox, J.B.
1942
1943
1944
1945
1945
1946 /
1937c
Frank C. Huston
Standard Publishing Company
(Cincinnati)
Huston, Frank C.
Jorgenson, E. L.
LCU
LCU
CTS
**
1946
1946
1947
1947
1947
editions.)
The Guiding Star: a book of gospel songs (454
pages) (See also at 1937, 1942, 1943, and 1917
in COC.
Songs for Preschool Children. (79 pages) (See
rev. ed. at 1958.)
Great Songs of the Church, number two. The
new alphabetical hymnal. A treasury of six
hundred sacred songs suitable for all services of
the church. (448 pages) (round notes?) (See
1921 COC for list of multiple editions.)
Great Songs of the Church, number two. The
new alphabetical hymnal. A treasury of six
hundred sacred songs suitable for all services of
the church. (448 pages) (round notes?) (See
1921 COC for list of multiple editions.)
Primary Hymnal with monthly posters of
programs.
1948
Favorite Kiamichi Choctaw Hymns, Centennial
ed. (50 pages)
1948
Great Songs of the Church: the new alphabetical
hymnal, number two. A treasury of six hundred
sacred songs suitable for all services of the
church.
Chorus Book: Lake Springfield Christian
Assembly
1949
1950
1950
1951
Glorify His Name: Hanging Rock Choruses
(from Hanging Rock Christian Assembly)
(Mimeographed. Words only. 28 pages.) (See
also “Hanging Rock Christian Assembly
Choruses at n. d.)
Sing Unto the Lord: Hymns for young
worshippers.
Beyond the Sunset and Other Songs
Standard Publishing Company
(Cincinnati)
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LCU
Standard Publishing Company
Poulton, Dorothy F.
(Cincinnati)
Great Songs Press (Louisville / Los Jorgenson, E. L.,
Angeles)
comp.
LCU
The Standard Publishing Company
(Cincinnati)
Jorgenson, E. L.,
comp.
ACU / MC
Standard Publishing Company
(Cincinnati)
Kiamichi Mountain Mission
Humphrey, Imogene
CCU / CTS
-----
Standard Publishing Company
(Cincinnati)
Jorgenson, E. L.
DOCHS /
LCU
CTS
Lake Springfield Christian
Assembly (Springfield, IL)
Martinton, IL
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LCU
Karns, Franklin C.
LCU
Standard Publishing Company
(Cincinnati)
Rodeheaver, Hall-Mack Company
Whitman, Don, comp. ACU /
CCU / CTS
“the Brocks” (Virgil
LCU
DOCHS
1951
Sing-a-Song.
1951
Singing With the Brocks. (48 pages)
1951
Songs from the Scriptures. (15 pages)
1953
Favorite Hymns (Revised) makes available in
one general purpose book not only the favorites
from our own previous musical publications, but
from a score of other books of wide acceptance.
To these have been added an entire section of
new gospel songs, prize winners from the
previously unpublished work of more than 1,200
hymn writers who submitted numbers for this
book.” (320 pages)
Songs of Praise. (96 pages)
1953
1954
Favorite Chorus Time, No. 1 (See other editions
at 1954, 1964, and n. d.
1954
Favorite Chorus Time, No. 2 (See other editions
above, at 1964, and n. d. (48 pages)
1955
Favorite Action Choruses for Children (79
choruses)
1955
Gospel Favorites: an all-purpose song book of
new and old favorite selections. Planned for use
in all services of church and Sunday school.
((224 pages) (“Scripture to be read in unison,”
pages 207-220)
Great Songs of the Church, number two. The
new alphabetical hymnal. A treasury of six
hundred sacred songs suitable for all services of
1955
Standard Publishing Company
(Cincinnati)
Rodeheaver, Hall-Mack Co.
(Winona Lake, IN)
Don Whitman (Cincinnati)
& Blanche Kerr
Brock)
Elliott, Kathryne
Vaughn
Brock, Virgil P.
Brock, Blanche Kerr
Whitman, Don
Standard Publishing Company
(Cincinnati)
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Standard Publishing Company
(Cincinnati)
Standard Publishing Company
(Cincinnati)
Standard Publishing Company
(Cincinnati)
Standard Publishing Company
(Cincinnati)
Standard Publishing Company
(Cincinnati)
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Great Songs Press (Louisville / Los Jorgenson, E. L.,
Angeles)
comp.
LCU
LCU
CCU /
LCU
ACU /
CCU /
DOCHS /
ECS /
HUGST /
LCU
DOCHS /
LCU
CCU /
LCU
CCU /
LCU
:CU
ACU /
LCU
ACU
1955
1957
thru
1988
1958
1958
1958
the church. (448 pages) (round notes?) (See
1921 COC for list of multiple editions.)
One Hundred Hymns and Gospel Songs:
Compiled from the writings of Frank C. Huston.
(120 pages)
Vacation Bible School Song Books.
Frank C. Huston
(Jacksonville, FL)
Huston, Frank C.
Standard Publishing Company
(Cincinnati)
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CCU / ECS
/ DOCHS /
LCU
LCU
Githens, Harry
CCU
Poulton, Dorothy
LCU
Humphrey, Imogene?
(See note at title.)
Lyons, Helen
Sturgis, J. E.
Hargis, Billy James
LCU
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DOCHS
-----
DOCHS
Brock,
Virgil,composer
Berry, E. Wayne and
Tangeman,
Clementine Miller
LCU
Standard Publishing Company
(Cincinnati)
Jorgenson, E. L.
CCU /
ACU
Standard Publishing Company
Peterson, Dorothy M.
LCU
Hymns Illustrated with Chalk
Standard Publishing Company
(Cincinnati)
Songs for Preschool Children, rev. ed. (88 pages) Standard Publishing Company
(Cincinnati)
Songs for Primary Children, rev. ed. (95 pages)
Standard Publishing Company
(See also 1930.) (Dowling: “Rev. ed. of Primary
(Cincinnati)
Hymnal which was prepared by Imogene
Humphrey.)
1961
1963
1964
1964
1965
1965
1965
Billy James Hargis’ Favorite Hymns: the official
song book of Christian Crusade
Sing Songs of the Savior. (28 songs)
Christian Crusade (Tulsa, OK)
Standard Publishing Company
(Cincinnati)
Favorite Chorus Time, No. 2 (See other editions
Standard Publishing Company
at 1954 and n. d. (48 pages)
(Cincinnati)
Sing with Me. Gospel songs by Virgil Brock. (32 Rodeheaver, Hall-Mack Co.
pages)
(Winona Lake, IN)
Christian Hymns. (510 pages; 5th printing)
The Christian Foundation / The
(revised ed., 1947, third printing. 1952, 4th
North River Press
th
printing, 1957, 5 printing, 1965) (See also at
1945.)
Great songs of the church, number two: a
treasury of six hundred sacred songs suitable for
all services of the church. (472 pages)
Sing / Look / Do: action songs for children. (64
LCU
CCU / MC
1967
pages)
Choruses for Christ: Sebring Church of Christ
Cherub Choir
Favorite Hymns of Praise (512 pages)
1967
Wealth of Melodies, Vol. 1 (53 songs)
1968
c1967
1969
Favorite Hymns of Praise (512 pages)
1971
Great Songs of the Church, number two. The
new alphabetical hymnal. A treasury of six
hundred sacred songs suitable for all services of
the church. The 50th printing (448 pages) (round
notes?) (See 1921 COC for list of multiple
editions.)
Favorite Hymns of Praise, 9th edition (“The
Standard Publishing edition of Favorite Hymns
of Praise.”
1967
1973
The Best of the Good Twins
1973
Happy Songs of Praise. (64 pages)
1975
c1967
1976
Favorite Hymns of Praise (512 pages)
1977
Sing Unto the Lord.
The New Church Hymnal
(Cincinnati)
Sebring Church of Christ
Standard Publishing Company
(Cincinnati)
Tabernacle Publishing Co.
(Chicago)
Music Master Publications
(Bethany, OK)
Tabernacle Publishing Company
(Chicago)
Sacred Songs (Waco, TX)
Sells, Mrs. Arthur R.
LCU
CCU /
DOCHS /
LU
Loving, Ted J., comp.
Murray, Jon Evah,
music ed.
-----
ACU /
CCU /
HUGST /
LCU
CCU
Bock, Fred, comp.
and ed.
Great Songs Press (Louisville / Los Jorgenson, E. L.,
Angeles)
comp.
LCU
Standard Publishing Company,
Tabernacle Publishing Co.
(Chicago)
Standard Publishing Company
(Cincinnati)
Standard Publishing Company
(Cincinnati)
Lexicon Music, Inc. published for
Standard Publishing Company
(Cincinnati)
Book of choruses. Photocopied by
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CCU / ECS
/ LCU
-----
LCU
-----
CCU
Carmichael, Ralph,
et al, editorial comm..
HUGST
-----
LCU
ACU
1977
Sing Unto the Lord, 2nd edition (96 pages)
1981
Songs for Preschool Children: for ages one
through five (96 pages)
n. d.
n. d.
n. d.
Choruses
Christ’s Youth Herald Choruses (mimeograph)
Christian Crusade Songs. Number one
n. d.
Christian Songs. (Russian title also).(123 pages)
(songs in Russian and English) (CCU note:
“between 1970 and 1990?)
Favorite Chorus Time (See other editions at
1954 and 1964. (58 pages)
n. d.
Riverton Christian Church
(Riverton, IL)
Book of choruses. Photocopied by
Riverton Christian Church
(Riverton, IL)
Standard Publishing Company
(Cincinnati)
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LCU
Bennett, Marian,
comp.
----Hickerson
Brock, Virgil
MC
Huk, John K.
Dulin, Gene, comps.
CCU /
LCU
Standard Publishing Company
(Cincinnati)
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Brock, Blanche Kerr
Brock, Virgil
Brock,
Brock, Blanche Kerr
Brock, Virgil
Brock,
Brock, Virgil P.
ACU /
CCU /
LCU
LCU
Mahomet (IL) Christian Church
Hickerson (jcw: Max? Kent?)
Virgil P. Brock
(Winona Lake, IN)
Toronto Christian Mission
(Toronto, Canada)
n. d.
Golden Gems (41 songs)
Virgil and Blanche Kerr Brock
(Green’s Fork, IN)
n. d.
Golden Gems, no. 2: Especially prepared for use
in evangelistic meetings and Sunday school
work. (67 songs)
Virgil and Blanche Kerr Brock
(Green’s Fork, IN)
n. d.
Gospel Campaign Songs
V. P. Brock (Green’s Fork, IN)
n. d.
Heart-to-Heart-Tour
Lappin, S. S., et al
n. d.
Incensio Christiano, 1st edition with music
Standard Publishing Company
(Cincinnati)
Inprenta Nacional
n. d.
n. d.
Incensio Christiano, 2nd edition with music
Incensio Christiano, 3rd edition, words only.
Inprenta Nacional
Inprenta Nacional
Westrup, Thomas
Westrup, Thomas
Westrup, Thomas
LCU
LCU
LCU / JW
LCU
DOCHS /
LCU
LCU
CCU /
LCC—XB
LCU
LCU
n. d.
Songs numbered 201-300.
Kiamichi Favorite Songs and Hymns
Kiamichi Mountains Missions
(Talhina, OK)
n. d.
Kiamichi Favorite Songs and Hymns (129 songs)
Milligan College copy marked as 1963. Dowling
lists as n. d.)
Kiamichi Mountains Missions
(Honobia, OK)
n. d.
Knowles Shaw’s Song Books. A photocopy of
five of Shaw’s books banded together.
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n. d.
Little Songs for Little Singers, with a worship
program for each month. (69 pages)
n. d.
My Songs.
n. d.
Nineteen Sacred Songs. (20 pages)
n. d.
Onward to Victory: a collection of new and
selected gospel songs. (69 songs)
n. d.
n. d.
n. d.
Restoration Songs; selected from some of our
leading song-books. (16 pages) (Includes
song(s?) by J. D. Murch.
Sacred Songs. (28 songs)
Selected Hymns of Praise. (CCU: “198?”)
Standard Publishing Company
(Cincinnati)
Thelma Probst Gearhart
(Lock Haven, PA)
The Frank C. Huston Company
(Knightstown, IN)
Virgil P. Brock
(Green’s Fork, IN)
Standard Publishing Company
(Cincinnati)
n. d.
Selected Sacred Songs. (28 pages)
n. d.
Sing with Christ’s Youth Heralds. (251
choruses)
n. d.
Songs for Soul-Winning. (95 hymns)
----- (Jacksonville, FL)
The Cincinnati Bible Seminary
(Cincinnati)
Frank C. Huston
(Jacksonville, FL)
----Standard Publishing Company
(Cincinnati)
McReynolds, A. B.
and other Kiamichi
missionaries
McReynolds, A. B.
and other Kiamichi
missionaries
Shaw, Knowles /
Dowling, Enos E.
comp., ed.
Adair, Mildred.
Gearhart, Thelma
Probst
Huston, Frank C.
“the Brocks”, comps.
CCU /
DOCHS /
LCU
CCU /
LCU
LCU
CCU /
LCU
**
CCU /
LCU
LCU
-----
CCU /
LCU
Huston, Frank C.
-----
**
CCU
Huston, Frank C.
DOCHS
Nickerson, Don,
comp.
Sturgis, J. E.
LCU
CCU /
DOCHS /
HUGST /
n. d.
Songs for the New Day. (Dowling: “A ‘regular’
ed., and a ‘souvenir’ ed. were printed; the laterr
having photographs and in color. (113 songs)
Rodeheaver Hall-Mack Company
(Chicago / Philadelphia)
n. d.
Songs for the Twenty-First Century. (22 pages)
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n. d.
Songs of the Savior. (36 pages) “Advance pages
of the new book of sacred songs for all Christian
work and worship.”
Souvenir Booklet of a Heart-to-Heart Tour to the
Hearts and Homes of Great Christian People.
Personnel of party: S. S. Lappin, preacher; Clara
E. Lappin; Floyd Jones, American Tenor; Rollin
Eaton, pianist. (24 pages)
Frank C. Huston (Indianapolis)
Brock, Virgil P.
Pollock, Ralph W.,
comps.
Huston, Frank C.
Brock, Blanche Kerr,
music eds.
Van Buren, James,
author
Huston, Frank C.
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n. d.
LCU
ACU /
CCU /
DOCHS /
ECS / LCU
/ JW
MC / JW
LCU
LCU
** Dowling’s Hymn and Gospel Song Books of the Restoration Movement: A Preliminary Bibliography lists this book, but does not
show the location of a copy. The book’s existence is probably inferred somewhere on the other edition listen above, whose location
Dowling does show.