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Book & Author Page Issues > The State of the Art (1st edition) and ISBNs wrong

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message 1: by Brady (last edited May 30, 2013 05:14PM) (new)

Brady Shea | 3 comments Please correct data for:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...

* This ISBN is for the one I own and is the "Trade" First Edition HC or just "First Edition" HC.
(It is _not_ the " 'Limited' First Edition" as per link above).

* It is approximately 100 pgs. (Not 1!) It is hard to tell as it doesn't have normal page numbers and I don't feel like counting them out to verify Wikipedia.

* Cover is correct.

Details-
Another "Limited Edition" (First Edition) had print of 400 and came in slipcase. The Wikipedia article should be correct:

"The State Of The Art - An original edition appeared in 1989 as a separate book (Mark V. Ziesing, ISBN 0-929480-06-6). The cover art was by Arnie Fenner, and a limited edition of 400 books in a slipcase appeared, signed by both artist and author"
ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stat...

So:
The Trade Edition ISBN is: 0929480066
The slipcase Limited Edition has an ISBN of :
0929480074
(Taken directly from book.)

So this profile is also incorrect and has incorrect cover as well:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...


message 2: by Brady (last edited Jun 01, 2013 11:35AM) (new)

Brady Shea | 3 comments I have corrected these details and cover image. Also fixed page numbers. Edited descriptions so they did not include 'collection' references. I added characters from title novella only (which is in all versions of book) - any characters that appear in later 'collection' versions will not be listed as these appear globally for all versions of book on site and would therefore be incorrect.
ref'ed:
my copy of book
wikipedia
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cg...


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