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Rowena Morrill/Morrell/Morril
You verified Darker Than You Think, with a cover by "Rowena Morrell", and The Best of Omni Science Fiction No. 2 with interior art by "Rowena Morril". Could you check whether those are ISFDB errors that should be corrected, or publication errors that should be VT'd to "Rowena Morrill"? Thanks, Chavey 14:55, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
- The ISFDB records are correctly credited with the publishers' incorrect spelling. I've made them into variants and created pseudonyms. Thanks. Mhhutchins 18:27, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
Review of Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos
You've verified September-October 1990 issue of Aboriginal Science Fiction which contains a review of the Derleth edited edition of Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos. I was wondering if you could check and see if it is really a review of the anonymously edited (or Turner edited, or Derleth and Turner edited depending on your source) 1990 edition. I'm suspicious only because the review appeared shortly after the revised edition. Thanks. --Ron ~ RtraceTalk 01:16, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
- Your suspicions are correct. It reviews the re-edited 1990 edition. I've linked the review to the correct title record. Thanks. Mhhutchins 02:01, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
SFBC editions and ISBNs
I left the three ROSSWOTHE submissions in the queue for you. Do SFBC editions normally have ISBNs (in these cases, they appear to be the ISBNs of the retail hc)? BTW, thanks for fixing that pub link in the note I left yesterday. Limited attention span.... --MartyD 01:56, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
- Starting in the early 90s, if the SFBC reprinted another publisher's title, it would often retain the copyright page of the original trade edition. More often than not, as the continuing collection of data has revealed, it would print the ISBN of the trade edition. The current ISFDB standard is to record the trade ISBN in the note field, and the SFBC id number in the ISBN/Catalog # field. (Those standards are stated here. Mhhutchins 16:18, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
Alien Contact
All your corrections to my edit are bone fide. I even caught one myself before I submitted. All my errors were in the Author field, so I'll review carefully in the title field before carrying on. I normally don't make so many typos; my attention span was probably on empty. Still getting used to all the rules and conventions. Syzygy 19:09, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks. One more convention: all discussions should remain on the page on which they begin. If another editor initiates a discussion on your talk page, your response should be made there. (This avoids the "ping-pong" effect of carrying on a discussion on two different pages.) Just click the [edit] link to the right of the message. Same protocol applies if you begin a discussion on another editor's page. Check the "Watch This Page" box before you save the post, then looking at your My Watchlist page, you'll be notified when they've responded. Thanks again. Mhhutchins 20:44, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
Journey
Hi, there! I have added artist name (back, top right corner) to this verified pub and pub month from amazon.co.uk. Cheers, P-Brane 06:23, 22 January 2012 (UTC).
- Good find. Thanks. Mhhutchins 16:47, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
Stations of the tide
Hello, just in case, can you confirm (by a signature on cover ?) that the cover of this pub is indeed by Horne as it's far in style from his original cover here which was also used for the the french pb here. As it seems to be on copyright page, perhaps it's a case of a strict duplication of the page by another publisher. Thanks. Hauck 11:11, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
- I think you're right. Even though the artist is credited explicitly on the copyright page, the actual art appears to be a computer-manipulated montage of photographs. Both books were published by divisions of The Hearst Corporation: William Morrow did the hardcover edition and Avon did the softcover edition, so it's likely the latter duplicated (incorrectly) the cover credit of the former. I'm going to remove the credit and explain in the notes. Thanks for discovering this. Mhhutchins 16:52, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
- The later mmpb from AvoNova reverted to the original artwork by Horne, so I've linked images to all of the records that he is the cover artist, and then merged them into one record. Mhhutchins 17:03, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
- BTW "Daniel R. Horne" is a recognized pseudonym of Daniel Horne. It wouldn't do any harm to credit the French edition's record to the match the actual book credit, as noted in the record. I've made it into a variant of the original cover art record. Mhhutchins 17:08, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
Holy Terrors
Thanks for the welcome info. Looks at least as if I didn't mess up too badly. The book in question has the last numbered page of 140, but then there are four unnumbered pages advertising other penguin books . I assumed every paper page within was counted, so my total made 144. Looks like I've got a lot of editing to do, I have a couple of feet of those 1930s horror/mystery/creepy anthologies on my shelves.... Malcolmf 19:35, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
- Yes, a pretty good effort for an initial submission. About the page count, for books we use the last page of text (with a few exceptions), and for magazines we count every page, including the covers. I'm looking forward to your next submissions. BTW, it's better to respond to Wiki posts on the same page in which the message originated. This avoids the ping-pong effect of having discussions carried on two different pages. Thanks and welcome again to the ISFDB. Mhhutchins 19:48, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
Sign of the Unicorn Roger Zelazny Avon
I think, there are two identical pubs of two Avon editions: 5th (there and there) and 15th (there and there). BarDenis 20:23, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
- You're correct. I will accept your submissions to delete the non-verified records. Thanks. Mhhutchins 20:27, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
Geoffrey A. Landis' The Kingdom of Cats and Birds
You verified this pub which contains The Kingdom of Cats and Birds and this pub which contains The Kingdom of Cats & Birds. Should these be variants? Thanks. -- JLaTondre (talk) 17:59, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
- The titles are correctly entered, so please make the first record into a variant of the second. Thanks for finding this. Mhhutchins 18:04, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
SFBC edition?
Entered a record for [Dracula & Frankenstein] yesterday, added images today. Publisher is odd as Doubleday did release this in 1973 so it shouldn't have Nelson Doubleday, but it does. Also not sure if this should go in the SFBC listings [I did buy it through the club but that doesn't mean it was first offered there]. Any thoughts? --~ Bill, Bluesman 01:14, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
- None of my usual sources give a SFBC edition of this title, but the cover is very familiar. I may have saw it some time in the 70s or 80s, but couldn't say if it were a SFBC selection. It may have been offered through Doubleday Book Club or The Literary Guild. Or I may have saw the trade edition in a book store. There is another OCLC record for this edition, that is dated "[197-]", meaning the person who entered the data believed the undated book was published in the 70s. Perhaps it was reprinted in the 80s under the Nelson Doubleday imprint, because any book club edition in the early 70s would have credited Doubleday as the publisher. I would personally change the publisher to "Nelson Doubleday / BCE" because that's the one thing we're sure of. But that's up to you. I'd contact some Abebooks dealers to ask for a few gutter codes, but that's not worked out well in the past few years. (I may have gone to the well too many times.) A search returns with 11 copies: 4 give the date as 1987, 1 as 1960, 1 as "1970s", and 5 as undated. Only 1 gives the gutter code, the same as yours. Mhhutchins 05:12, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
- Changed the publisher. From my memory of the date when I bought it I wasn't a member of the club in 1983 so this was likely stock left over from an initial offering to another club. It was not a main selection, probably not even an Alternate. As for AbeBooks, I've been trying to keep the enquiries to a minimum, many sellers don't even respond to an initial question, never mind repeated ones. But I'll bet nearly all use the site!! --~ Bill, Bluesman 17:33, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
- Getting a response to any question from any Abebooks.com dealer has become difficult over the past year or so. Sometimes I'm geniuinely interested in purchasing a book, and asking a legitimate question, but won't receive any response at all. Occasionally I get a form letter email about the book being "in another warehouse" so they can't answer any specific about it. But if I ordered it and wasn't satisfied they'd refund my money. Needless to say, I don't do business with them. Mhhutchins 18:16, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
