Publication History
| No. | Date | Title | Editor | Pages | Price | Notable Contents | ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1010 | Fall 1968 | Whole Earth Catalog | Stewart Brand | 64 | $5 | First WEC; cover photo: Earth from space | |
| #1020 | January 1969 | The Difficult But Possible Supplement to the Whole Earth Catalog | Stewart Brand | 32 | $1.65 | Additions and price corrections | |
| #1030 | March 1969 | The Difficult But Possible Supplement to the Whole Earth Catalog | Stewart Brand | 30 | $1.65 | Calls for subscribers to write to President Nixon urging establishment of the entire Earth as a National Park; establishes early support for computers with a photo of a Computer Club showing "two Commodore calculators" | |
| #1040 | Spring 1969 | Whole Earth Catalog | Stewart Brand (with Lloyd Kahn) | 132 | $4 | Cover photo: Earth from the far side of the moon; lists a $4,900 Hewlett Packard programmable calculator | |
| #1050 | July 1969 | Difficult But Possible Supplement to the Whole Earth Catalog | Stewart Brand | 32 | $1 | Cover recounts a bus race between Ken Kesey's Further and three buses from Wavy Gravy's Hog Farm | |
| #1060 | September 1969 | Difficult But Possible Supplement to the Whole Earth Catalog | Stewart Brand | 34 | $1 | Unanimous Declaration of Interdependence | |
| #1070 | Fall 1969 | Whole Earth Catalog | Stewart Brand (with Lloyd Kahn) | 132 | $4 | Cover photo: Earth from deep space | ASIN B000KVJ3ZC |
| #1080 | January 1970 | Whole Earth Catalog: The Outlaw Area | Stewart Brand | 56 | $1 | Cover photo: Arthur Godfrey; reprints long articles on The Outlaw Area, Liferaft Earth, Earth Peoples Park; dropped word "Supplement" to qualify for 2nd class postage | |
| March 1970 | Whole Earth Catalog: The World Game | Gurney Norman (with Diana Shugart) | 56 | $1 | "Buckminster Fuller's World Game" by Gene Youngblood | ||
| #1090 | Spring 1970 | Whole Earth Catalog | Stewart Brand (with Lloyd Kahn) | 148 | $3 | Cover photo: M-31 Andromeda Galaxy, taken by the Lick Observatory | ASIN B001B6L98O |
| #1110 | July 1970 | Whole Earth Catalog | Gordon Ashby (with Doyle Phillips) | 56 | $1 | "Find Your Place In Space" (a series of mandalas) | ASIN B00139YNAA |
| #1120 | September 1970 | Whole Earth Catalog | Gurney Norman (with Diana Schugart) | 56 | $1 | "Think Little" by Wendell Berry; "Introducing Divine Right's Bus, Urge" by Gurney Norman | |
| #1130 | Fall 1970 | Whole Earth Catalog | J.D. Smith (with Hal Hershey) | $3 | ASIN B001B6GKWO | ||
| #1140 | January 1971 | Whole Earth Catalog | Stewart Brand | 48 | $1 | Cover: Truth, Consequences | |
| #1150 | March 1971 | The Last Supplement to The Whole Earth Catalog | Paul Krassner and Ken Kesey | 132 | $1 | R. Crumb cover; "The Dream is Over" by J. Marks, "The Bible" by Ken Kesey (and no catalog items!) | ASIN B000GTN5BG |
| #1160 | June 1971 | The Last Whole Earth Catalog | Stewart Brand | 452 | $5 | Divine Right's Trip by Gurney Norman serialized; cover photo: Earth from space, taken by Apollo 4; Winner, 1972 National Book Award |
ISBN 0-394-70459-2 |
| #1170 | May 1971 | Whole Earth Catalog | |||||
| May 1974 | The (Updated) Last Whole Earth Catalog | Stewart Brand | 452 | $5 | 16th Edition | ISBN 0-14-003544-3 | |
| #1180 | October 1974 | Whole Earth Epilog | 320 | $4 | Cover photo: earthrise over the moon by Apollo 12; "Tongue Fu" by Paul Krassner serialized | ISBN 0-14-003950-3 | |
| December 1977 | Space Colonies: Whole Earth Catalog | Stewart Brand | 160 | $5 | ISBN 0-14-004805-7 | ||
| #1220 | September 1980 | The Next Whole Earth Catalog | Stewart Brand | 614 | $12.50 | Cover photo: Madagascar & Southern Africa from orbit by Apollo 17; more emphasis on space travel | ISBN 0-394-73951-5 |
| March 1981 | The Next Whole Earth Catalog, revised | Stewart Brand | 608 | $16 | Excerpts from The Rising Sun Neighborhood Newsletter by Anne Herbert serialized. Ron Jones' account of the Third Wave experiment. | ISBN 0-394-70776-1 | |
| Spring 1984 | Whole Earth Software Review, No.1 | Stewart Brand | |||||
| Summer 1984 | Whole Earth Software Review, No.2 | Stewart Brand | |||||
| June 1984 | Whole Earth Software Catalog 1.0 | Stewart Brand | 208 | $17.50 | Groundbreaking software reviews | ISBN 0-385-19166-9 | |
| Fall 1984 | Whole Earth Software Review No.3 | Stewart Brand | |||||
| Fall 1985 | Whole Earth Software Catalog 2.0 1986 | Stewart Brand | 224 | $17.50 | ISBN 0-385-23301-9 | ||
| #1280 | September 1986 | The Essential Whole Earth Catalog | J. Baldwin | 416 | $24.99 | Published by Doubleday | ISBN 0-385-23641-7 |
| 1988 | Whole Earth Catalog: Signal Communication Tools for the Information Age | Kevin Kelly | ISBN 0-517-57083-1 | ||||
| 1989 | The Fringes of Reason: Whole Earth Catalog | Ted Schultz with Stewart Brand | 223 | $14.95 | ISBN 0-517-57165-X | ||
| 1989 | The Electronic Whole Earth Catalog | Stewart Brand | n.a. | Early version of hypertext, on CD-ROM | |||
| 1990 | Whole Earth Ecolog | James Baldwin | 128 | $15.95 | Deals with ecology exclusively | ISBN 0-517-57658-9 | |
| #1330 | December 1994 | The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog | Howard Rheingold | 410 | $30 | White cover with Earth as "o" in "Whole"; Frank's Real Pa by Jim Woodring serialized | ISBN 0-06-251059-2 |
| #1340 | December 1998 | Whole Earth Catalog: 30th Anniversary Celebration | Peter Warshall with Stewart Brand | 108 | $14.95 | The complete first WEC + new comments | ISBN 1-892907-05-4 |
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