📚 Coal

The fuel that started the industrial age and its smoke: seams, mining, and the carbon it gave back to the air.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject coal in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. 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
	The coal question	William Stanley Jevons	1865	32
	Coal Geology	Larry Thomas	2002	11
	Coal	Barbara Freese	2003	10
	The coal-fields of Great Britain	Edward Hull	1861	9
	The coal-regions of America	Macfarlane, James	1873	9
	Bujun tankō sōgō keiei kiso chōsa	Bujun Tankō. Chōsagakari	1900	9
	The coal trade	Frederick Edward Saward	1877	8
	...The geology of coal and coal-mining	Walcot Gibson	1908	8
	Big coal	Jeff Goodell	2005	8
	Statistics of coal	Richard Cowling Taylor	1848	7
	The coal-fields of Great Britain	Edward Hull	1861	7
	Coal-quality information--key to the efficient and environmentally sound use of coal	Robert B. Finkelman	1997	7
	The Chemistry Of Coal	John Braithwaite Robertson	1919	6
	Coal prices	National Board for Prices and Incomes.	1966	6
	The future of coal	Peter James	1982	5
	How We Use Coal (Using Materials)	Chris Oxlade	2004	5
	Coal Processing and Utilization	D. V. Subba Rao	2016	5
	Coke	Roger Loison	1989	4
	The weathering of coal	Parr, Samuel Wilson	1907	3
	Stach's textbook of coal petrology	E. Stach	1975	3
	How did we find out about coal?	Isaac Asimov	1980	3
	Coal combustion and gasification	L. Douglas Smoot	1985	3
	Coal and the coal mines	Homer Greene	1889	2
	Coal combustion and conversion technology	David Merrick	1984	2
	Fine Coal Processing	Richard R. Klimpel	1987	2
	Coal--typology, physics, chemistry, constitution	D. W. van Krevelen	1993	2
	Ensiklopedia batubara	Asril Riyanto	2008	2
	Handbook of Coal Analysis	James G. Speight	2015	2
	Batubara	Rukman Adiradja	1975	1
	Stach's Textbook of coal petrology	E. Stach	1982	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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