Collins White Circle Edition Original Publishers

The Toronto based subsidiary of Scottish/British publisher Wm. Collins published 429 titles in a numbered mass market imprint from 1942 to 1952. Only nine of the White Circle Pocket Edition titles are paperback originals with the remainder new editions of previously published books. I have identified the original publisher for 416 of those books. There are 45 publishers with two accounting for 82%. The full list - 

• Wm. Collins             323 
• Duell, Sloan and Pearce    18 
• Michael Joseph                  8 
• Prentice-Hall                5 
• Wm. Collins Canada        5 
• J.B. Lippincott                4 
• William Morrow                4 
• Charles Scribner's        3 
• Eyre & Spottiswoode        3 
• Arcadia House                2 
• Arthur Barker                2 
• Dodd, Mead                2 
• E. P. Dutton                2 
• Julian Messner                2 
• Macrae Smith                2 
• Random House                2 
• Appleton-Century-Croft      1
• Blakiston Company, The     1 
• Casell                        1 
• Charles L. Webster        1 
• Coward-McCann                1 
• David McKay                1 
• Ernest Benn                1 
• Farrar, Straus                1 
• Fleming H. Revell        1 
• G. P. Putnam's                1 
• Gazette Printing                1 
• George J. McLeod        1 
• Greenberg                        1 
• Harper & Brothers        1 
• Houghton Mifflin                1 
• J.H. Sears                        1 
• John Lane                        1 
• Little, Brown                1 
• Macaulay                        1 
• McClelland & Stewart         1 
• McGraw-Hill                1 
• Phoenix Press                1 
• Robert M. McBride        1 
• Simon and Schuster          1          
• Standard, The                1 
• Sun Dial Press, The        1 
• Thornton Butterworth        1 
• Vanguard Press                1 
• William Heinemann        1 

Here is the single book from five of the publishers.

Death and the Dancing Footman by Ngaio Marsh in 1941 (Boston: Little, Brown)

Shabby Tiger by Howard Spring in 1935 (New York: Sun Dial Press)

Favourite Wife by May Edginton in 1936 (New York: Macaulay)

El Caid by Clare Sheridan in 1931 (London: Thornton Butterworth)

The Horncasters by Victor H. Johnson in 1947 (New York: Greenberg)

White Circle Pocket Edition 76 1943

White Circle Pocket Edition 230 1945

White Circle Pocket Edition 327 1947

White Circle Pocket Edition 290 1946

White Circle Pocket Edition 332 1947

White Circle Pocket Edition 427 1950